David Hare was wittily spot-on when he said recently that "there's a sort of line where you can't tell where Wilde ends and Rupert [Everett] begins". And Hare is not the only person to note a Wildean spirit in the prose of the actor's own two splendid volumes of autobiography " "the same heroic cheerfulness in the face of disaster", as the dramatist puts it.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:35AM on January 23, 2013