Why Stephen Fry wasn't born to be Wilde
November 1st 2010 10:21
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The main man: Oscar Wilde
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Stephen Fry annoys me.
I don't find him funny, making him the first British comedian in several generations who hasn't had me in stitches.
I don't find him gay enough. If he's going to trade on his homosexuality, which he does, I want him to register a little higher on the public gaydar.
I don't like his acting. Gosford Park was perfect for me in every way except for the bumbling policeman role which Fry over-acted and under-finessed his way through.
And I don't like his writing.
It is this which is closest to my heart, and leads me to write these mean and foolishly small-minded words (as are all subjective criticisms of art and artists).
It is close to my heart because Stephen Fry draws obvious comparisons with Oscar Wilde and, for a while, before time and repetition disappointed me, I so wanted Fry to be another Wilde.
I think many people did. I suspect there was a popular and populist longing for this to happen. For me, as I suppose it was for most people, it was partly because of a great love for the writing of Oscar, and partly because of a sense of shame of the way Wilde was treated in his day. We deeply wished that he might have lived in more enlightened times so that he could have been openly admired as himself, a gay creative genius, rather than just a creative genius.
I know many people think Stephen Fry has succeeded in recreating the aura, magnetism and success of Oscar Wilde and I, recognising the subjectivity of my reservations, have never made a song, dance or sonnet about them.
Until today.
Today came the news that Stephen Fry, gay oracle wannabe, has given an interview full of opinions about female sexuality.
In an interview published in the November issued of gay magazine Attitude, Fry says women "don't really like sex", just use it to manipulate men into having a relationship, and have to endure sex to snare a man.
Men, said Fry, secretly feel that "they disgust women" because men "find it difficult to believe that females are as interested in sex as they are''.
The proof, when he finally got to it, for Fry's point of view that women are unequal in matters sexual is that women don't hang around public places gasping for it. His point, in case you don't immediately grasp it, is that gay men do.
Stephen Fry has a big mouth and an even bigger head. He annoys me, and if Oscar Wilde were alive today, I'm sure he would agree.
The also-ran: Stephen Fry
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