Syndicate
Subscribe to marksimpson.com’s RSS feed. All original material © 2012 marksimpson.com, all rights reserved.
Recent Essays
- 'Gore Vidal Turns Off the Lights On the American Dream'
- 'Let Me Hear Your Body Talk'
- 'The Last Gay Picture Show'
- 'The New Bromanticism'
- 'An Age of Dorians'
- 'Oh Do Stop Nailing Blair to the Cross – He Enjoys It'
- 'Quentin Crisp & Hurtian Crisp'
- Bring Back the Danelaw
- Does Magic Mike Have Anything to Stick Himself With?
- Swishy Villainy & Psychodrama in Skyfall
Recent Comments
- Menbarrassing Advertising | marksimpson.com on I’d F*ck Me: Mirror Man-Love
- Menbarrassing Advertising | marksimpson.com on Use Our Straight Acting Cosmetics — Or Everyone Will Know You’re a Drag Queen
- Elise on Brando Bukkake
- Graham on Brando Bukkake
- Ann Herendeen on Rupert Everett’s Flabby Bottom
- Mark Simpson on Brando Bukkake
- I'm Innocent on Brando Bukkake

Twitter
Facebook
Ours is the Dorian Gray Age
by Mark Simpson (The London Times, September 4 2009) “Are you tired of looking at me yet?” asks Ben Barnes as Dorian Gray in Oliver Parker’s new film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s only novel. Ostensibly he’s asking the question of his admirers, the cynical hedonist Lord Henry Wooton (Colin Firth) and the idealistic, gushing painter of his …