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...there's a heroic generosity about the man that I find enormously appealing. He literally never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas Kiss, opens in New York City this week. Starring Liam Neeson, Hare's play examines the aftermath of the episode when words finally failed Wilde: the trials for "gross indecency" (1890s British legalese for homosexuality) that ended in his imprisonment and ruin but also assured his permanent status as a gay-rights...
Still, it's not Wilde's sexuality but his "mystery" that Hare says inspired him to write The Judas Kiss. (The play received mixed reviews during its London run.) By bringing a doomed libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry--the outraged, decidedly macho father of Wilde's bratty, poetic young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas--Wilde unleashed the forces that in time consumed him. "There was an element of hubris," says Hare. "He may have thought there wasn't a situation that he couldn't talk himself...
...other gambits too. Realizing that many gangsters spend countless nights holed up in apartments watching sports on television, he recently introduced them to a foreign concept: the sports bar. Initially they turned to Brother Bill to guide them on unfamiliar turf. Nowadays they freely go to Champions near O'Hare Airport and the Alumni Club in downtown Chicago to watch their favorite teams...
...splendor. Mandela's boyhood was peaceful enough, spent on cattle herding and other rural pursuits, until the death of his father landed him in the care of a powerful relative, the acting regent of the Thembu people. But it was only after he left the missionary College of Fort Hare, where he had become involved in student protests against the white colonial rule of the institution, that he set out on the long walk toward personal and national liberation...
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