Movies
June, 1998
England's Stephen Fry brings a kind of defensive bravura to his title role in Wilde (Sony Classics). Already a hit in London, the movie depicts the decline and fall of the 19th century playwright accused of homosexual conduct. An unsuccessful libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry (Tom Wilkinson) starts the wheels of justice grinding when Queensberry publicly insults Oscar Wilde to thwart his son Alfred Douglas' relationship with the author. Jude Law all but steals the movie as young Dou...
