Quick, is there a glass wall in Oscar Wilde's fairy tales? Because now there is one around his grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery. The Irish government and the Irish Fund for France paid roughly 50,000 euros to clean the tomb with its Jacob Epstein's Assyrian nude figures, which by tradition have been covered in kisses from devoted queers and outcasts. Authorities also erected a 7-foot plate glass barrier to keep pilgrims from puckering up. Anyone could have predicted this: Now people kiss the glass.
Rupert Everett attended the unveiling with Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, 66. Next fall, Rupert plans to star in and direct a film he's written about Wilde's final three years, costarring Colin Firth, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson. The Guardian reports:
"Singling out earlier films about Wilde – by Robert Morley, Peter Finch and Stephen Fry – he said: 'All other films stop when [Wilde] goes to prison. I think that's partly because the heterosexual world … still can't face what they did to him … after [Wilde] came out of prison, if an Englishman saw him in the street he was absolutely entitled to go up and slap him or spit at him ... everybody abandoned him.
"'It's the most extraordinary story – and a very short time ago … I think people can't really face that side of him. It's too cruel."
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