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ON THE COVER 1 OSCAR WILDE
His best seller 2 BOOK VS MOVIE
Did Ben Barnes make an Excellent Dorian? 3 BEN BARNES
His experiences as Dorian Gray 4 ETERNAL YOUTH?
Beauty or not? 5 ARE YOU A FAN OF DORIAN GRAY?
How much you know about the picture of Dorian Gray? 6 WILDE MORE THAN A CENTURY
His life and more
ARTICLES
7 MAN RETURNS BOOK BECAUSE OSCAR WILDE WAS GAY
8 COMICS OF DORIAN GRAY
9 What people didn’t know about Oscar wilde
10 main characters of Dorian Gray “the movie”
11 Horoscopes
Juan Jose Vargas Rengifo Editorial Director
EDITORIAL
Cristian Rojas Osorio editor in chief
Harrison gomez Editor
Jose Ignacio Peralta M. Editoral cordinador
Mirror
“The coolnes of beauty”
"The picture of Dorian Gray", In Buenos Aires,
Argentina, the musical by Pepe Cibrian Campoy
and Angel Mahler, starring John rolled, takes that old
desire and comes to the city from the hand of Fedorco
Productions on Sunday at 20.Inspired by the work of
Oscar Wilde, was released in 2005 and the filmmakers
decided to revive it, because, as he said, "Dorian Gray"
is always kept current. In your skin will get Juan Rodo,
the protagonist of the musical by definition in the country.
OSCAR WILDE
His best seller The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde,
appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June
1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.[1] The magazine's
editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored
roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication. But even
with that, the story was still greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some
of whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds,
leading Wilde to defend the novel aggressively in letters to the British press.
Wilde later revised the story for book publication, making substantial
alterations, deleting controversial passages, adding new chapters and
including an aphoristic Preface which has since become famous in its own
right. The amended version was published by Ward, Lock and Company in
April 1891.[2] Some scholars believe that Wilde would today have wanted us
to read the version he originally submitted to Lippincott's.[3]
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting
by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes
infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his
art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes
enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord
Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and
fulfilment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian
(whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil
has painted would age rather than he. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, and when he
subsequently pursues a life of debauchery, the portrait serves as a reminder
of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a
disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging
Dorian faces his portrait in the 1945
filmThe Picture of Dorian Gray
ETERNAL YOUTH?
As Dorian did something to keep his
youth. There are too many people who
want to keep his youth forever no
matter how and even more when you
earn money because your beauty. Here
there’s a list of many famous people
who transformed their bodies to be as
young as possible
This woman has done a
rhinoplasty and lips has
increased considerably
although she has always
denied. She has been spent on
its new face 7,300 euros.
The Puerto Rican singer of 35
years has been bleached her
skin, undergo a treatment that
removes scars and marks on the
face and
she also incrases her
cheekbones.
The singer, who is 54 years old
has been always trying to look
younger. She has retouched
eyelids, lips (now has it thicker)
and has filled the nasolabial
folds (the wrinkles that go from
the nose to the mouth
Paulina Rubio
She has lost a lot of weight.
To combat sagging, she has
resorted to Botox. Each
session costs $3,000. so…
just imagine how much
mony she has spent!
BEN BARNES
His experiences as Dorian Gray
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British actor Ben Barnes is developing a habit that might
endear him to those with a literary bent. “Or I could be
disappointing a lot of people,” he smiles. “That’s the trouble
with adapting work by people’s favourite authors. I have
gone straight from Alan Bennett to C.S. Lewis to Noel
Coward to Oscar Wilde. I seem to be doing them all. Next
I’ll be totally butchering Hamlet!”
He’s joking, of course. Next he’ll be returning to Narnia; the
day we speak the 28-year-old is about to jet off Down
Under to start production on the third chapter in C.S
Lewis’s fantasy saga, The Chronicles of Narnia, although
audiences will get the chance to see him on screen later
this month, when he tackles one of Victorian literature’s
most infamous characters, Dorian Gray.
Adapted from Wilde’s once-controversial novella, The
Picture of Dorian Gray, which tells the story of a beautiful
young man who trades his soul for eternal youth (the
painting ages rather than Gray), the film stands as a rare
cinematic adaptation, Albert Lewin’s black-and-white
offering back in 1945 proving the best-remembered
version. In stark contrast to Lewin’s film, however, the new
incarnation veers away from Wilde’s narrative by focusing
less on the portrait and more on the man himself, hence
the eradication of the picture from the film’s title.
“The book is called The Picture of Dorian Gray and it really
is about the picture and the world that swirls around it, the
society and the things that happen to Dorian more than the
decisions he makes,” explains Barnes, who graduated from
Kingston University with a degree in English and Drama.
“Oliver wanted to get inside Dorian’s head a little bit
more, hence it’s just called Dorian Gray.
“There has been a brilliant film made of it, a sort of a
museum piece version made very classically and it was
heavily applauded but we wanted to get inside Dorian’s
head a little bit more and watch that journey unfold.
That was what we were aiming for and, hopefully,
achieved. I hope people like the film; nearly everybody I
meet says that it’s their favourite book and that I had
better not have made a complete hash of it!”
It’s an incredibly challenging role, which requires
Barnes to add depth and subtlety to the rather scant
original, and yet only the severest critics would suggest
that he had makes a complete hash of it. His co-star
Colin Firth, who plays the capricious Lord Henry
Wotton, has watched a number of stage adaptations
and several filmic versions from early last century, and
he firmly believes that Barnes delivers the best
interpretation that he’s seen.
“Ben is by far the best Dorian that there’s ever been,”
he states. “He has got much more complexity, partly in
what he has been given in the script, but he also has a
very interesting quality. He is clearly very beautiful and
he has also got these very, very dark eyes. The pupils
are about as black as anyone’s I have ever seen.”
In person, Barnes is indeed blessed with fine looks and
rather enigmatic peepers, although today he’s not quite
as chipper as he can be; he only landed back in the UK
the previous day, having just finished a gruelling human
drama in Boston, and tomorrow he’s set to step onto a
Narnia-bound plane. His debut as the eponymous royal
in the second Narnia movie, 2008’s Prince Caspian,
helped the film to rack up over $400 million at the box
office, and he will now reprise the role in the adaptation
of Lewis’s third book in the series, The Voyage of the
Dawntreader.
“There are some big pitched battles in this one, swords and
action,” he reveals when pondering his forthcoming adventure,
“although this film is more about magic, creatures and
discovery. I am looking forward to seeing Caspian a few years
later, as a king, playing a character that isn’t so vulnerable and
fragile this time around. And playing a king, I think that has to
be pretty cool. The king is in charge, for a start, although then
the kids turn up and they kind of piss on his bonfire a bit!
“But I am looking forward to it. After all, as a kid you dream of
wielding swords in a fantasy adventure.” He smiles. “I definitely
didn’t grow up wanting to play a young dad, with a child in a
coma, searching for the answers!” The role of a young dad
searching for the answers comes courtesy of the film he’s just
completed in Boston, which carries the temporary title of
Valediction. “It has a very adult theme and I am playing my own
age for the first time ever,” says Barnes, “a 28-year-old man
with a daughter. It felt like a lot of films that I have loved but also
didn’t feel like anything I have read in a long time. It’s hard to
describe. How would describe The Three Colours Blue or Blue
Velvet or Momento? They are hard to pigeonhole. They are
films about people. It is certainly the most real film I have done,
it’s my second contemporary film, and it just kind of screamed
at me to come and do it.”
His first contemporary film was Bigga Than Ben, an indie
offering released in 2008, not long after he’d appeared in
Matthew Vaughn’s grandiose fairy-tale, Stardust. His
breakthrough, however, came with Prince Caspian and he
followed that with the Noel Coward adaptation Easy Virtue.
“I don’t believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff,”
says, although he caused some controversy in thespian circles
when he controversially quit The History Boys at the National
Theatre to take the role of Caspian. “I think because of the way
I got involved in Prince Caspian, people think I am a crazy,
ambitious person, but it is not that at all. I just want to work on
this level ” I know how lucky I am to be able to work on small
independent films and big studio productions like Narnia.”
His profile is certainly on the rise, and his natural good looks
and charm have endeared him to a burgeoning legion of female
fans.
Answer some questions and find out how much you know about the picture
of Dorian Gray.
Are you a fan of Dorian Gray?
1 what is the name of the actress whom Dorian Gray falls in love with?
a. Sibyl.
b. Lady Agatha.
c. Victoria Wotton
2. Who painted Dorian Gray's portrait?
a. Lord Fermor
b. James Vane
c. Basil Hallward.
ANSW
ANSWERS
3. What is Dorian's birthday?
a. November 10. b. November 8.
c. November 9.
4.Who killed Dorian Gray?
a. Lord Henry.
b. Dorian Gray.
c. Mrs. Vane
5.Who is the author of the book?
a. Oscar Wilde.
b. J. K. Rowling.
c. William Shakespeare.
1. A
2. C
3. C
4. B
5. A
BOOK MOVIE
vs I have just recently viewed the movie and was surprised.
While it was fairly accurate up until the last half hour or so,
they took several liberties. Their portrayal of the painting (it's
change over time in juxtaposition of the man) was...less that
preferred. They made it too horror movie-ish, if that makes
sense. The actors did a great job, but there was just
something missing, a sincerity or deepness. I didn't feel like
Dorian didn't develop as he did in the book, and the other
characters had reactions that were less than believable.
What did anyone else think of the movie? I preferred the book
by far.
More than a century
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was an Irish author whose works include plays, poetry, short stories, fairy tales, essays, and one novel. He is well known for his wit and his use of paradox in the dialogue of his society comedies. Wilde was also a skilled storyteller, and many people who knew him claimed that his written works only scratched the surface of his creativity. In addition to his literary works, the author is famous for the sensational and tragic trial that ended in a two-year sentence to hard labor for homosexual acts.
Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1854. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, was an Irish nationalist and writer under the pen name Speranza. His father, Sir William Wilde, was also a writer and a renowned ear and eye surgeon. Oscar had an elder brother, William, and a younger sister, Isola, whose tragic death from fever at the age of ten deeply affected him.
Oscar was an exceptional student, earning scholarships to Trinity college in Dublin and later to Oxford University. In 1878, he graduated with highest honors in his double major of classical moderations and literae humaniores. The writer returned to Dublin briefly after graduation, but left within a month when his sweetheart,
Florence Balcombe, announced her engagement to Bram Stoker. He would remain a resident of London until his self-imposed exile to France in 1897 after the end of his prison sentence.
Wilde published his first book, Poems, in 1881, and the following year, he gave a lecture tour in the United States and Canada. He had made a name for himself while at Oxford as a proponent of aestheticism, or "art for art's sake," a literary and artistic movement that promoted beauty and pleasure above all else, and his lectures expounded on this theme. The tour was extremely popular and extended far beyond its original schedule.
In 1884, Wilde met and married Constance Lloyd. They had two children, Cyril, born in 1885, and Vyvyan, born the following year. Oscar began his first serious homosexual relationship in 1885 with Robert Ross, who would remain a close and loyal friend throughout the author's life. Ross eventually became his literary executor, and his ashes are interred in Wilde's tomb in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.
Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, appeared in book form in 1891 after being serialized in a magazine. The same year, he met Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie, the subject of his great and fatal passion. Douglas had an immense influence on the author's life, and while Wilde's celebrity grew as a result of his wildly popular society comedies, including Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, his personal life with Bosie became increasingly obsessive and dangerous.
Douglas' father, the Marquess of Queensberry, was outraged by Wilde's relationship with his son and confronted him repeatedly and violently in public and at the author's own home. In 1895, he left a card at Wilde's club on which he had written, "For Oscar Wilde posing as a Somdomite." Wilde sued him for libel, but the trial soon backfired when the writer perjured himself under cross-examination. The trial was dropped, but Queensberry's defense had compiled evidence regarding Wilde's sexual relations with a string of male prostitutes, and he was consequently arrested for "gross indecency" on 6 April 1895.
Jeff, an employee at Molasses Books, a used bookstore in Bushwick,
confirmed to Daily Intelligencer that this actually happened today. A
man came in, purchased two books, and then returned shortly
thereafter. Apparently, the back cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray,
by Oscar Wilde, mentioned that the book had been selected by the
Publishing Triangle as one of the top 100 gay or lesbian novels. The
man told Jeff that Oscar Wilde had been recommended to him, but he
hadn't realized the author was gay. Jeff says he didn't make a big deal
out of the odd exchange. "It wasn’t exactly the time and place for a
discussion," Jeff told us.
MAN RETURNS BOOK BECAUSE
OSCAR WILDE WAS GAY
Marvel illustrated: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Marvel's depiction of Oscar
Wilde's only novel - a tale of
hedonismin the face of, and
as opposition to, late 19th
century Victorian censorship -
following the life of the the
eponymous Dorian Gray and
the painting that forever
changed his life by both
blessing and dooming him to
never age.
Painter Basil Hallward
has done a portrait of a
strange subject-youthful
Dorian Gray, a man with
a mysterious and tangled
history. The young man
broods on how unfair it is
that he will age and his
portrait will remain ever
young. He wishes with all
his might that it were
otherwise-and in some
bizarre, magical way-it is!
This is a novel of dark
wonders brilliantly
brought to life in the
heralded Marvel
Illustrated style.
DID YOU KNOW?
Benjamin Thomas "Ben" Barnes is an English actor who portrayed Dorian
gray in the film of the same name in 2009.
He was born in London in August 20, 1981
He has appeared in movies like The Big Wedding, Locked in, Killing Bono
and many others.
He portrayed Prince Caspian X The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian nad
the King Caspian X in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader.
He began his career in musical theatre.
He studied a BA in Drama and English Literature at Kingston University, and
he graduated with honours in 2004.
Wilde's popularity was short-lived, however. In 1894, he became the subject
of a homosexual scandal that led him to withdraw all theater engagements
and declare bankruptcy. Urged by many to flee the country rather than face a
trial in which he would surely be found guilty, Wilde chose instead to remain
in England. Arrested in 1895 and found guilty of "homosexual offenses,"
Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor and began serving time in
Wandsworth prison.
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CHARACTERSMovieMovie
BEN BARNES AS DORIAN GRAY
Colin Firth as Lord Henry Wotton
Rebecca Hall as Emily Wotton
Ben Chaplin as Basil hallward
Rachel Hoord-wood as sibyl Vane
Horoscope British actor Ben Chaplin was born July 31, 1970 in London, England, UK It's time to take charge, Cancer. There's fuel for your fire, and the scope of your influence is virtually unlimited. Don't hold back in any way.
Your life is taking off in many different directions, Aries. Everything seems to be
expanding at once. It may be difficult to get a solid grip on any one thing.
This is a great day for you, Taurus. There's a terrific feeling of expansion in the air. This is one of those times in which a small germ of an idea can grow into something big right before your eyes.
You may feel like someone caught in a tornado, Gemini. Things are
whirling around you and everything seems out of control. Don't
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Don't concern yourself with getting more. Concentrate on what you already have, Leo. Work with whatever resonates within you. You instinctively know what does and doesn't work.
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It may seem like people aren't taking things as seriously as you'd like them to, Libra. If so,
take it as a hint that perhaps you're the one who needs to lighten up.
This is an excellent day for you, Virgo. The farther you extend your emotions, the more prosperous you will be. Don't be afraid of new things. More than likely, the new things entering your life now will make the most sense later.
Don't turn down any opportunities today, Scorpio, even if they seem like dead-ends at first. One could be your
lucky break. Realize that success doesn't always have a big neon sign pointing
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on to prosperity in every aspect of your life.
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Arguments could quickly turn into declarations of war today. Things could get blown out of proportion
if they aren't handled with care, Pisces.
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