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AI Tools Generate Sexist Content, Warns UN

The biggest players in the multibillion-dollar AI field train their algorithms on vast amounts of data largely pulled from the internet, which enables their tools to write in the style of Oscar Wilde or create Salvador Dali-inspired images.

International Business Times

Emilia Clarke tells of 'terrifying' brain haemorrhage ordeal as Game of Thrones star receives MBE

The actress opened up over her struggles after suffering brain haemorrhages

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Dear Octopus; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Just for One Day – review

Lindsay Duncan and co create a living period piece in Dodie Smith’s rarely performed marvel of a family portrait; Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde is so wrong it’s almost right; and the music carries a tame Live Aid nostalgiafest

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Going Out with... Liana Oster of NoMad London

The NoMad’s bar director shares her secrets with Tyler Zielinski

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The Picture of Dorian Gray review – Sarah Snook plays 26 characters in dazzling, dangerous solo show

Aided by elaborate tech, multiple screens and an angelic wig, the Succession star gives a performance that is mischievous, swaggering and operatic

The Guardian - UK

The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Theatre Royal Haymarket review: Sarah Snook is astonishingly good

Morphing from character to character, it’s a virtuoso performance from the Succession star

Evening Standard

The picture of Sarah Snook: First look at Succession star's Oscar Wilde stage return

Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in her new play which opened on Tuesday night at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe review – Christianity’s barbaric war against homosexuality

Historian Noel Malcolm’s survey of gay life in the 15th to 18th centuries debunks many myths, but mostly catalogues the extreme violence perpetrated against those judged to have broken religious doctrine

The Guardian - UK

Reading gaol, prison home of Oscar Wilde, sold to educational foundation for £7m

Initial proposals for historic site include plans for educational centre, museum and exhibition space

The Guardian - UK

Fantasy fin de siècle French B&B in the Belle Époque style on sale for £1.4 million

This recently renovated villa from the 1900s features a unique mash-up of architectural styles and themed bedrooms

Evening Standard

Tom Wilkinson obituary

Versatile stage and screen actor who won a Bafta for his role as Gerald in the hit 1997 film The Full Monty

The Guardian - UK

50 Times People Took Pictures, Only To Realize It Was ‘Accidental Renaissance’ (New Pics)

Maybe it's true what Oscar Wilde once said, "life imitates art far more than art imitates life." The post 50 Times People Took Pictures, Only To Realize It Was ‘Accidental Renaissance’ (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The biggest food stories of 2023, from Le Gavroche closing to burrata being cancelled

Openings, closings, record breakers and unlikely steaks

Evening Standard

Lucas Glover is latest pro to host his own show on Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio

The Lucas Glover Show will premiere December 6 at 8 pm ET.

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Exhibition explores how the Victorians are being reimagined in contemporary art

As you enter Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, a quote from Oscar Wilde faces you from across the room: “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.” Wilde’s statement draws the attention of visitors to two things. First, the fact that history is an ever-changing form of representation. And…

The Guardian - UK

‘It was a kind of possession’: Joanna Hogg on how Tilda Swinton came to play mother and daughter in her new film

The director of The Eternal Daughter and its star are old friends, in an ‘OG working relationship’. But the timing had to be right to make this gothic tale. ‘I got derailed by worries,’ she says

The Independent UK

Stephen Fry uses walking stick after breaking his leg, pelvis and ‘a bunch of ribs’: ‘This is my first outing’

Author and TV presenter had been quiet in the weeks since he fell six feet from a stage at the O2 Arena

The Independent UK

‘This is my first outing’: Stephen Fry uses walking stick after breaking his leg, pelvis and ‘a bunch of ribs’

Author and TV presenter had been quiet in the weeks since he fell six feet from a stage at the O2 Arena

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Stephen Fry broke his leg, pelvis and several ribs after dramatic stage fall: ‘This is my first outing’

Author and TV presenter had been quiet in the weeks since he fell six feet from a stage at the O2 Arena

The Guardian - UK

No utopia: experts question Elon Musk’s vision of world without work

Using AI to create less and better work would benefit society but getting rid of it altogether would be unproductive, experts say

The Guardian - UK

The Gilded Age review – it takes some nerve to give Oscar Wilde a cameo … then grant him no good lines

Though Julian Fellowes’ tale of New York aristos never fizzes as it should, you will still swallow it whole … even if it feels wrong with every fibre of your being

Evening Standard

OPINION - Freedom of Speech: Be strong, the offence bogeyman hates the truth

Theatre and film director Sean Mathias fears the policing of language will force all to work from text books

The Conversation

The history of the Yellow Book – the 19th century journal that celebrated women writers

In the middle of the final decade of the 19th century, Britain was the most powerful and richest nation on earth, with the largest empire ever known. The nation might be thought to have had nothing of which to be frightened, yet frightened it was.

The Independent UK

Did Oscar Wilde set back the cause of gay rights? Author Tom Crewe on why the great playwright is no hero

The author of award-winning alternative history novel ‘The New Life’ tells Louis Chilton how Wilde’s trial set back a moment of optimism

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The Canterville Ghost: Oscar Wilde's ghost story gets new life in this funny and stylish animated adaptation

Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost feels quite ghostly itself, doomed to walk the earth through its many adaptations. There have been at least 14 television versions, the most recent in 2021, and it has not been long since cinemagoers encountered director Yann Samuell’s French-Belgian version, Le Fantôme de Canterville (2016).

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