Wilde (1997)

The Republicans could learn more than just silence from The Artist | Hadley Freeman

Listen up Gop candidates: you can only recycle the past if you do it with intelligence, wit and conviction'Life," Oscar Wilde wrote in 1889, "imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." This is a useful maxim for the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, even if the majority of them would view Wilde with the same bigoted disgust as his contemporaries did more than a century ago. Progress, schmogress.Last weekend, Us TV viewers were blessed with not one but two Republican debates in the space of 13 hours. That same weekend, a film opened in Britain that contained some illuminating lessons for those partaking in this reality TV show, I'm a Republican … Get Me Out of Here! That particular movie is not, as one might expect, The Iron Lady , although that, too, does have some relevancy for the candidates.In the same way that many Conservatives talk as though
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