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	Brian Wilde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the episode, entitled "Prisoner and Escort", Wilde played Mr Barrowclough, a prison warden whose job it is to escort Barker's character Fletch across the moors to his prison.
		Wilde's other - perhaps more - famous role arose in 1976, when he took over from Michael Bates as the third member of a trio of old men in BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
		Wilde stayed with the series for 9 years before leaving in 1985, to work on other projects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Wilde (591 words)

	The Avengers Forever: Brian Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Brian Wilde has a typical role in "The Fear Merchants": he always looks and sounds slightly worried (although I agree with David about him being miscast as a youthful, ruthless tycoon).
		Wilde was in "Hello, Lazarus" (1965); "A Minor Operation", as a doctor, also with Carol Cleveland; and "How to Rob a Bank--And Get Away With It" (1966), with the great Eurovillain Vladek Sheybal, seen in "Cat Amongst the Pigeons", and Mike Pratt, later the first half of Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased).
		As Foggy, Wilde was writer Roy Clarke's replacement for Bates' officious character Blamire, joining Bill Owen as the tramp-like, rebellious Compo, and Peter Sallis--seen in "The Wringer"--as the meek and modest Cleggy, on their leisurely paced escapades, filmed in the Yorkshire town of Holmfirth.
	theavengers.tv /forever/pnote-wilde.htm (903 words)

	Wilde Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The reason that Wilde is more likely to be hung on the walls as might be Einstein, for example, is a symbol of the fact that the life of the mind is not something that has just been forgotten.
		Wilde is a sign that you can live a life that is an artist's life, whatever you do, a dynamic life, a life in which you don't commit yourself entirely to one moral fixed point of view, a bohemian life, the life of an eternal student.
		Wilde is a great symbol of that, more than perhaps any other poet or writer, partly because of his life, partly because of his work.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/moviearchive/wilde.shtml (816 words)

	1999 profile of Brian J Ford
		Brian’s discovery of the penderocyte in clotting blood was heralded in the medical press and in the newspapers as an epoch-making discovery, and it featured (opposite a picture sent back from the lunar surface) as one of the year’s leading discoveries in the 1968 International Yearbook of Science.
		Brian continued to conjure up major new theories, proposing that life on earth began as prebiotic molecules in outer space, a theory that has remained popular at Cardiff ever since, and advancing the idea that we can best study multicellular organisms by examining the cells of which they are composed.
		Brian analyzed voice patterns, and his research on speech was published and used by the British government when drawing up laws on the use of tape-recorded evidence.
	www.brianjford.com /asoucal1.htm (3205 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| "Wilde"
		Wilde's famous wit, proto-gay identity, hunger for self-reinvention and tragic embodiment of celebrity echo so many of our own fin-de-siècle concerns that it was inevitable that at some point we would turn to his life as a mirror of our culture.
		As Wilde wrote: "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." Considering they are about a man who once planned to create a society opposed to virtue, such highly moral tributes -- despite their historical accuracy -- feel strangely clueless.
		Wilde did come to a tragic end, but the spirit of his life was one of unsuppressed vitality.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1998/05/cov_08review2.html (1326 words)

	Wilde's martyrdom in perspective
		Wilde's persecution and suffering was a tragic event, and the film makes one feel its horror.
		Wilde insisted that art had its own independent life, that it was "not necessarily realistic in an age of realism, nor spiritual in an age of faith.
		It is very difficult to initiate any serious discussion of Wilde's work without confronting fundamental questions--the relationship of life to art and art to life, of the objective to the subjective, of politics to art, of an individual to his society and to his time, of the present to the past.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1998/may1998/wild-m30.shtml (1786 words)

	Wyatt's Watchdogs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wyatt's Watchdogs was a 30 minute BBC1 situation comedy that starred Brian Wilde and Trevor Bannister.
		Retired soldier Major John Wyatt (Brian Wilde) is spurred into action after his sister Edwina’s (Anne Ridler) home is burgled in broad daylight.
		Brian Wilde as Major Wyatt clashes worst of all with Peter Pitt (Trevor Bannister), a smooth-talking womaniser and burglar-alarm salesman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wyatt's_Watchdogs (297 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Wilde (xhtml)
		Wilde's personal tragedy would be of little lasting interest were it not for the enduring popularity of his work and the sensational nature of his fall.
		Wilde was the dandy as superstar; in the years before mass media, he wrote best sellers and long-running plays, and went on enormously popular lecture tours.
		Wilde did it because he was a genuinely sweet man who believed in expressing his feelings, and was naive about how much leeway he'd be given because of his fame.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980612/REVIEWS/806120305/1023 (894 words)

	SCESTA Emergency Medical Services Faculty Biographies
		Brian joined the SCESTA in 1996 as an EMS Educator, was promoted to Lead Instructor in 1997 and at the end of 1998 assumed the role of EMS Coordinator.
		Brian currently serves as a lieutenant for the Far Hills - Bedminster Fire Department and as a past captain of the Far Hills - Bedminster First Aid Squad, where he has been a member of each since 1991 and 1992, respectively.
		Brian holds the instructor certifications for NJ EMT-B and CPR, as well as certifications as a Nationally Registered Paramedic, NJ MICP, NY Paramedic, Incident Command, Vehicular Rescue, Firefighter and Hazardous Materials.
	www.users.nac.net /bwilde/staff-ems.html (1561 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Wilde
		Eventually, Wilde's composed mind-set and distinguished social rank would begin to unfurl on his meeting the 22-year-old Lord Alfred Douglas, otherwise known as "Bosie." The dazzling Bosie as played by Jude Law is a perfect foil for Wilde's acerbic cool: harshly outspoken, fiery and extremely bratty.
		Wilde and "his boy" flaunt their ambiguously close relationship with total abandon, even in a restaurant where Douglas' father, the irksome Marquess of Queensberry, dines.
		The catastrophic strife between Wilde and the hog-like Marquess is played with intense focus and availing humor as the playwright is inexorably dragged into a libel case in regard to his improprieties.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=81 (373 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS Center Stage Mounts a Witty Wilde; Rep Stages Friel's Trenchant Translations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		(The dandy Wilde is being more than a little self-referential here.) Goring endeavors to untangle the mess while protecting the saintly Lady Chiltern (Olivia Birkelund), a porcelain-skinned tower of virtue who believes she has the ideal husband.
		Wilde himself would have been comfy cavorting in Goring's jaunty green suit and florid purple vest.
		High-minded men with underhanded origins is an evergreen subject, but Wilde doesn't impart anything new about the nature of corruption and/or redemption in this, perhaps the least-staged of his handful of plays (though he eerily presages his own reckless demise in its lines).
	www.citypaper.com /arts/story.asp?id=4466 (1036 words)

	1895 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
		May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and is sentenced to serve two years in a prison in Reading.
		September 7 - Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (d.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1895 (1342 words)

	Last of the Summer Wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst (Brian Wilde) - Staid successor to Blamire; Foggy is generally considered the definitive third man. Although he considers himself to be very regimental and heroic, when confronted Foggy is generally meek and incompetent.
		When Wilde left the series in 1985 to star in his own sitcom, it was explained that Foggy had moved to Bridlington to take over his family's egg-painting business.
		Alvin Smedley (Brian Murphy), Nora's neighbour after Mrs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Last_of_the_Summer_Wine (1509 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Oscar Wilde
		Wilde star Stephen Fry bears a close physical resemblance to the real Oscar Wilde, but the casting masks an overly deferential interpretation that's so sympathetic as to be both unbelievable and unbelievably naive.
		ONE REASON Wilde suffered the fate he did at the hands of British law was that the issue of perversion had become the political hot ticket of the moment, attached as it was to a bill that was meant to stamp out teenage prostitution by raising the age of sexual consent.
		Wilde, of course, was a much deeper thinker than that, and his private behavior was not meant as an intentional snub of society.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.04.98/wilde-9822.html (1484 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It gave us all of the information we needed to understand and interpret the trials of Oscar Wilde and what he had to endure in those last depressing years of his life by documenting his two trials and providing transcripts of important testimony from various witnesses.
		This book was quite helpful to us in learning about Oscar Wilde’s life in general, especially his earliest years.
		Written in a simple prose, Hyde succeeds in conveying what Wilde thought and felt while living his life, as well as telling us the true story behind Oscar's much-discussed personal life.
	www3.sympatico.ca /absmith/wilde/bibliography.htm (502 words)

	ZA@PLAY - FILM: Call of the Wilde 07/05/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Morley and Finch pictures were constrained by censorship and social conventions and contributed to the movement that brought about the homosexual-law reforms of the mid-Sixties.
		In a couple of minutes this sequence (with its hints of homoeroticism and a descent to the lower depths) establishes Wilde's wit, boyish charm, composure, courage, didacticism, and his unpatronising combination of patrician and democrat.
		Clever use is made of Wilde's fairy tale, The Selfish Giant, as a narrative device to reflect on Wilde's character and his attitude to his wife (Jennifer Ehle) and children.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/film/9805/980507-wilde.html (363 words)

	Film & TV: Film Tip of the Week (Newcity Chicago . 06-15-98)
		The effervescent Stephen Fry is the incarnation of Oscar Wilde in Brian Gilbert's film of the notorious playwright and epigrammatist's life (from a screenplay by playwright Julian Mitchell).
		The tender "Wilde" tries to pack a lifetime into its two hours, and does a good job of combining his love of family, his children and young men, as well as remaining endlessly suggestive about the swift turnings of a mind that was incessantly, cleverly, surefootedly critical, yet seldom, if ever, cruel or angry.
		Film biographies are inescapably compressed versions of the complexity of their protagonists' lives, yet "Wilde" manages to say much between the lines that elevates it beyond those of a more declamatory style.
	weeklywire.com /ww/06-15-98/chicago_filmtip.html (200 words)

	Cornel Wilde at Brian's Drive-In Theater
		Wilde toiled in the legitimate theatre for a few years and then went to Hollywood, where he soon was put under contract to Warner Bros. The studio gave Wilde smaller parts in several films but dropped his option in 1941.
		Wilde then signed with 20th Century-Fox, where he was cast as the lead in a number of swashbucklers and film noir thrillers.
		Cornel Wilde produced, directed, co-wrote, and stars in this gritty and honest World War II tale that intercuts poignant flashbacks with intense battle scenes to illustrate the horrors of war experienced by a squad of Marines, and their Japanese counterparts, as they face one another on a small island in the Pacific.
	www.briansdriveintheater.com /cornelwilde.html (1808 words)

	Wilde: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the most handsome films of the year, Wilde is graced with a beautiful score and oozes great British acting talent...
		Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde must be just about the most perfect casting any movie could be blessed with.
		Using many of Wilde's own pithy one-liners - "no gentleman ever has any idea what his bank balance is" - and some stunning location work, director Brian Gilbert has managed to produce an insightful look, not only into one man's psyche, but also into the social and, especially, the sexual mores of the times.
	www.oscarwilde.com /newrev7.html (272 words)

	Wilde comments - Brian Gilbert Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The only thing I would add is the simple observation that the particular film that was made was one primarily exploring Wilde's place in the history of bigotry and homophobia--facts for which history is responsible, not the makers of the film--some of whom, by the way, are gay, themselves.
		Of course this film doesn't bring complete justice to the man himself, but who cares, this film does enough to portray a man who was the icon of an English society that loved him, and one that denounced him for the rest of his life.
		He was a man of wit and of intelligence, mixed together his prose and personality became that of controversy because it was misunderstood and interpreted as "immoral".
	www.mooviees.com /4838/comments (1212 words)

	PopcornQ Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The second is that while the film is largely concerned with the effects of Wilde's homosexual lifestyle on his career and the lives of those that loved him, it almost completely overlooks his wife and how she feels about the whole thing.
		In his hands, Wilde is a perpetually but pleasantly smirking fellow with a saucy perspective on life, a topic he tries not to take too seriously.
		Instead, "Wilde" focuses on Oscar's passionate and doomed affair with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas (Jude Law, "Gattaca"), a dashing, moody well-to-do student who flaunted their affair, pushed Wilde into Victorian London's promiscuous gay underground and eventually got him embroiled in a libel suit that exposed his homosexuality and lead to his imprisonment for two years.
	www.planetout.com /popcornq/db/getfilm.html?2416 (519 words)

	James Sanford: Features: Brian Gilbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wilde is not the first literary figure Gilbert has examined: His previous film "Tom and Viv" (1994) focused on the turbulent marriage of poet T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe) and the hormonally unstable Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson, who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance).
		Although Wilde's wife Constance was eventually forced to divorce him and to flee England with their two sons, Wilde's family never turned against him.
		The scandal that consumed Wilde down "might not happen in the same way now, but we are a worse age of scandal than his was: We're worse than the Victorians," Gilbert insisted.
	www.interbridge.com /jamessanford/features/gilbert.html (1220 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Wilde -- Brian Gilbert - DVD - Wide Screen
		Literary genius, legendary wit, bon vivant, and gay martyr, Oscar Wilde was a man whose legend has grown to iconic proportions since his death at the beginning of the 20th century.
		Establishing Wilde (Stephen Fry) as a loving family man, complete with a wife (Jennifer Ehle) and two adorable sons, the film takes pains to portray him as a dignified genius who was as pained by what he considered his own sin -- his homosexuality -- as he was delighted by the sins of others.
		From his initial encounters with Robbie Ross (Michael Sheen), his first male lover, through his tragic affair with the beautiful and bratty Alfred Lord Douglas (a perfectly cast Jude Law), Wilde is seen as a conflicted fellow, warring with his own urges even as he dazzles everyone around him.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=UG0BwveAJp&EAN=43396022973 (284 words)

	ramseyt17's Xanga Site
		Brian Wilde came to Boone and Deanna, Brian and I all got stranded at my house because of ice.
		The next day Brian and I went to the park and got ice cream.
		I'm having so much fun hanging out with Brian and I find that he keeps a smile on my face.
	www.xanga.com /ramseyt17 (519 words)

	Wilde . Nashville Scene . 07-13-98
		Fry's Wilde is sweet-natured, charming, and devoted to his wife and children; he's hobbled only by his compulsion to disappear into hotel rooms for weeks at a time for trysts with young men.
		Wilde dwells on the physicality of gay sex, following Wilde's growing awareness of his attraction to men from discreet hand-holding to sweaty embraces.
		Wilde needs more scenes like its crackling opener, in which Oscar visits an American silver mine and thrills the rugged, unkempt miners with tales of murder and intrigue among European royalty.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/nash/w/wilde1.html (472 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Brian Gilbert - 1997 - Wilde Movies Review
		The personification of paradox, Oscar Wilde rose to glorious literary heights in the latter part of the 19th century only to sink under scandal immediately after his greatest success, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895.
		Due to “the love that dare not speak its name,” Wilde was imprisoned for “gross indecency,” from which he never fully recovered, unless you count his late twentieth century literary comeback and subsequent status as social martyr.
		The film opens during Wilde's lecture tour in a small Colorado mining town, where sweaty working men listen fervently to Wilde's witticisms—he is quite the rage all across America for his genius and social commentary, very much akin to the fanfare that accompanied Mark Twain around the same time.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10005008 (938 words)

	Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Oscar Wilde has endured in the world's artistic consciousness as much for his outrageous personal carriage and his relentless self-promotion as for his novels and plays (which include The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest).
		Thus, Stephen Fry's visually perfect Wilde, Michael Sheen's compassionate friend, and Jennifer Ehle's beaming but neglected Constance Wilde (the author's wife) are all stranded with much talent to offer but nowhere to take it.
		The only actors who really penetrate the starchiness of Wilde are Vanessa Redgrave as the writer's mother and The Full Monty's Tom Wilkinson as his fiercest adversary.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /wilde.html (362 words)

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