References to Royal Tunbridge Wells occur in literature as diverse as Arthur Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear, H. G. Wells' Christina Alberta's Father, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, E. M. Forster's A Room With A View, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Zadie Smith's White Teeth.
A final noteworthy event, from the point of view of Oscar historians, came when Undefeated, a film about a high school American Football team, won Best Documentary.
In the 90s, he played an outdated view of Oscar Wilde as a martyred music-hall act in Diversions and Delights, a retread of Dick Willey in Cooney's less delirious sequel Out of Order, and a somewhat tackily lecherous old Duke of Altair (one of Laurence Olivier's most dashing, moonstruck roles) in Christopher Fry's Venus Observed at Chichester.
For me, this week has been a time to limber up for the release of Gaspar Noé's synapse-frazzling movie Enter the Void, a total-immersion nightmare shot entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a small-time drug dealer in Tokyo, who meets a horrifying death, then an equally horrifying life after death.
HBO and Netflix screenings aside, events like the one starting Thursday at the Edwards Westpark 8 cinema provide the surest way to view those Oscar hopefuls on the margins.
("If you are shy, pretend not to be shy," he advises at the time of writing, "and in the end you won't be shy". Fillis reports getting into arguments on the page over Crisp's stated views on Oscar Wilde and murder).
"I do know that Jamie Foxx has to take on [ping pong pro and model Soo Yeon Lee] again, because she bested him very unexpectedly -- from his point of view," the Oscar-winning actress said.
If you don't know what's going on — if you choose not to join the network of people connected by having viewed the Oscars — you risk appearing dim, antiquated, and anti-social.
Clippinger, 32, told The Huffington Post that he was inspired to write the book after viewing the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove," which examined dolphin poaching practices in Japan.
In recent weeks, one of the best representations of blackness I've ever seen on the New York stage has been on view: Peter Francis James as Oscar in the fabulous revival of Edward Albee's 1980 play, "The Lady from Dubuque". That Oscar is the creation of a gay white man tells us something about the limitations of one's difference.
One object that isn't on view is his Oscar for the movie "Moonstruck".
