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Article: Sowing Wilde oats
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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AFTER filming adaptations of two Oscar Wilde comedies, director
Oliver Parker says he "didn't want to paint myself into a corner".
The phrase proves particularly apt, as he's gambled on a Wildean hat-
trick by directing a new screen version of The Picture Of Dorian
Gray.
"I had to yield to temptation, " says Parker, taking a break
earlier this week from production of the second of his St Trinian's
schoolgirl comedies. "Rather like Dorian himself succumbs to the
pleasures of the flesh and remains young and beautiful, while his
portrait in the attic grows old and wrinkly."
Parker had earlier resisted attempts to interest him inmaking
Dorian Gray after his Wilde film double of An Ideal Husband ...