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Fraser, left, with Mary Williams and Francesca Annis in A Free Weekend, a drama made for the ITV Playhouse series in 1962.

Colin Firth's swooning fan base has long accepted the unlikely heartthrob as an endearing bumbler.

This thread quickly wandered into a discussion of the wonderful 1952 film version of The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Anthony Asquith, with Michael Redgrave, Margaret Rutherford, Dorothy Tutin, Joan Greenwood, and of course Edith Evans as the definitive Lady Bracknell.

Colin Firth has barely sat down, yet he is already shifting attention from himself.

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Actress Gabrielle Drake is due next week to switch on a fundraising Tree of Light in Shropshire.

Poised for a fall star Ben Barnes as Dorian Gray. November 13, 2009 Oliver Parker electrifies Dorian Gray with bolts of horror, writes Helen Barlow.

Ben Barnes was responsible for making Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian a huge success in the title role.

Though it offers a few smiles and steers clear of laughs altogether, Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's British import St.

The extraordinary drama of Darwin's great personal crisis: the anguishing decision over whether to "go public" with his theory of evolution.

FOLLOWING complaints about a commotion in one of her bedrooms the landlady and her husband rushed upstairs and pushed open the door to be confronted by a ghastly spectacle.

Is "The Importance of Being Earnest" a comedy about hugely amusing Victorian characters or is it a comedy about Oscar Wilde's observant wit? It's both of these things, of course.

Heath Ledger in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" Toronto film festival 2009 photos Stars and sun at the 34th annual Toronto film festival [A series of daily updates on screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival.

British director Oliver Parker says Michael Jackson was one of the pop-culture icons who came to mind as he made his new film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's gothic horror novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," about a young man corrupted by the pursuit of eternal youth.

Oliver Parker, whose films include well-upholstered versions of The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, now turns to Wilde's great Faustian fable, concentrating less on its philosophical aspects than on the gothic horror.

DORIAN GRAY * DIRECTED BY: OLIVER PARKER STARRING: BEN BARNES, COLIN FIRTH, BEN CHAPLIN, REBECCA HALL GIVEN we're living in the midst of a venal, vanity-driven celebrity culture where fame is treated as a goal in itself and Botox and Photoshop offer quick-fix solutions to combat the irrational fear of ageing, the timing should be perfect for a ...

Previewed by CB Staff : 2009-08-26 13:07:16 Eternal beauty, everlasting youth, celebrity: Dorian Gray has it all.

Double date: Pham and Hynes play all the roles. Details: The Importance of Being Earnest At Crawl Space, 504 E. Denny Way, #1, 8 p.m. Wed., Aug.

Set in Elizabethan England, the new production sees Titania, the Fairy Queen, as a portrait of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, fascinated with the theatre, besieged by courtiers but a married to the people of England'. Dench previously portrayed Elizabeth I in the feature film Shakespeare in Love , winning an Academy Award for Best Actress in a ...

After An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest , director Oliver Parker has taken on a third Oscar Wilde work: an adaptation of Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray .