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ill-advised defamation case since Oscar Wilde”, and now viewers will finally get the inside scoop on the Wagatha Christie case in a new Channel 4 dramatisation of the events, featuring the legendary Michael Sheen. For those who, for whatever reason, didn’t follow every single second of the excruciatingly addictive court case back in May of this year: after Coleen Rooney (wife of former footballer Wayne) publicly accused Rebekah Vardy (wife of Leicester striker Jamie) of leaking information contained within her private Instagram stories to the press, Rebekah Vardy made the decision to sue Rooney for defamation.

Drew Barrymore know the actress had a tumultuous and messy upbringing, but that doesn't mean she's afraid to look back on the early days of her life and all of its complications.MORE: Drew Barrymore spends night out with daughters as busy time approachesHaving had many of her ups and downs in front of the camera, the star has rarely shied away from speaking candidly about her difficult relationship with her parents, and starting working in Hollywood at such an early age.During a conversation Uninterrupted's The Shop series, which is produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, Drew sat down with fellow actor Idris Elba, Paul Rabil, Kyrie Irving, Paul Rivera, and Maverick, and did not hold back when it came to speaking about her father's absence during her childhood.WATCH: Drew stuns with filter-free appearanceMORE: Drew Barrymore’s heartbreaking family confession that left fans in tearsHer father, John Barrymore, comes from a long line of legendary Hollywood actors, but the actress was raised by her mother, Jaid Barrymore, by herself.When she was asked how she first became an actress, she credited the Barrymores, though noted how her father was failing to uphold the acting legacy given his propension to the radical hippie lifestyle.She admitted: "They were all dead and long done, and my dad was a drug addict and he didn't wear shoes." John and Jaid's relationship was continuously on and offRecalling the perception she had of her father at a young age, she explained: "He was really crazy but like, an awesome character and sort of like Gollum meets Oscar Wilde on drugs."MORE: Drew Barrymore surprises fans by revealing who would play her in a biopicMORE: Drew Barrymore's daughters' latest outing with their dad is too cute

Chase Mishkin, the Broadway producer whose roster of productions scored two Tony Awards (for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and Memphis), died July 24 at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.

Any day now the renovated Chelsea Hotel will fully reopen, capping a drawn out process that has seen the grand edifice on the west side of Manhattan shrouded in netting and defaced by scaffolding for over a decade.

Jim Parsons will star in an Off Broadway revival of A Man of No Importance, the 2002 musical featuring a book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.

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WCCB about Fezco, the dog who was abandoned by his owners for humping another male dog. “It was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard,” Nichols said of the reason given for leaving Fezco with Stanly County Animal Protective Services. “That’s just pack behavior.” He said he and Winn looked at each other after hearing the news story and decided to adopt the abandoned dog.Nichols told TMZ that he felt a connection to the dog, who was being unfairly discriminated against, just as he and Winn have been in their own lives. According to the The Charlotte Observer, Nichols then drove about an hour from their home to Albemarle, located about 40 miles northeast of Charlotte, to adopt the dog, who he and Winn have renamed Oscar, after Oscar Wilde, a gay Irish poet and playwright in the early 1890s.Nichols said the application wanted to make sure that whoever adopted Oscar would be committed to nursing him back to health.

It is the latest hotel to open its doors to guests in Manchester this week - and the Wilde aparthotel is rather fittingly being launched on St Patrick's Day. For the new hotel, named after one of Ireland's most famous sons Oscar Wilde, has a subtle Irish design theme running throughout it.

her house – she’s just renting it while working in London and Essex. It reminds me of Ali & Ava, her lovely new film. Every time Ali tells his friends that Ava is a teacher, she corrects him with “teaching assistant”.

Robert Allan Ackerman, the director whose television work scored five Emmy nominations and who directed acclaimed Broadway productions including Bent and Extremities, died Jan. 10 of kidney failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 77.

Elliot Page has arrived at the 2021 Met Gala.

If Wes Anderson hasn’t already been ordained as the king of twee, he certainly will be with The French Dispatch. There can never have been a film so entirely marked and dominated by preciously perfectionist compositions, arcane detail, meticulous camera moves, ornate décor, historical and design minutiae, styles of typography, precision diction, arch attitude, obsessive attention to cultural artifacts and loyalty to Oscar Wilde’s notion that art needn’t express anything other than itself.

When playwright/deviant Oscar Wilde famously remarked that imitation was the most sincere form of flattery, he probably never predicted the idea applying to a new Netflix original, but well, it fits, and here we are. Their new sci-fi horror thriller, “Oxygen,” is a film that borrows heavily from such intimate looks at claustrophobic spaces like 2010’s “Buried” and a dash of, say, cryonic-freezing drama, “Forever Young.

Tim Dams Ireland has long been known as a nation of storytellers, home to giants of literature and theater such as Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.In recent years, Ireland’s storytelling tradition has started to thrive in the screen industries too.

Banksy artwork was unveiled there last week.The mural, which emerged last Monday (March 1), shows a prisoner – resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde – escaping from the prison using a rope fashioned from bedsheets tied to a typewriter.

Banksy has shared a video featuring American artist Bob Ross confirming that the Reading prison artwork that mysteriously appeared earlier this week is his.The picture, which emerged on Monday morning (March 1), shows a prisoner – resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde – escaping from the prison using a rope fashioned from bedsheets tied to a typewriter.Now, Banksy has uploaded a comical video to his Instagram account, which you can view below, in which he confirms the artwork is his and named it

princess with a special feature. So he sought to commission an article from the celebrity astrologer William Warner.

according to reports.Wilde was incarcerated at Reading between 1895 and 1897, accused of “gross indecency.” The prison, formerly known as Reading Gaol, was shuttered in 2013, and a bid to sell it to developers fell through in November. Reading’s local council is hoping to turn the building, which is located in the town center, into an arts venue.

Also on this day: The United States and Britain sign preliminary peace articles in Paris for ending the Revolutionary War; the Treaty of Paris would be signed in Sept. 1783.

The house was in fact previously owned by a Florence Balcombe who was a much-loved Irish socialite at the turn of the 20th century.Though she came from meagre means, she dated Oscar Wilde for two years at the age of 17, then married Bram Stoker and after his death, managed to successfully sue the makers of iconic black and white film, Nosferatu.Following that she was able to sue the Hollywood company who bought the rights to that movie too as this was an unauthorised film adaptation of her

The first written record of what would become Oscar Wilde’s final play, The Importance Of Being Earnest, is going under the hammer.

By Emilio Mayorga

By Emilio Mayorga

I am indebted to Oscar Wilde’s classic book, Lady Windermere’s Fan, where Lord Darlington memorably defines a cynic as “A man who knows the price of everything . . . and the value of nothing”.

Happy dir-tay thir-tay, Taylor Swift!