Dorian Awards "The Advocate"), celebrated columnist Michael Musto, and professor of literature Joseph Bristow, one of the world's leading authorities on Oscar Wilde. The Dorian Award is named in honor of the writer Oscar Wilde, in reference to his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and GALECA's Dorian Award certificate includes an image of Oscar Wilde along with a graphic of hands raising a black bow tie. To commemorate the 2015 film and TV awards season, GALECA revealed its first "Ten Best" list, The Ten Best Movies About the Academy Awards. Included were such films as "The Oscar", "California Suite", "For Your
The Picture of Dorian Gray by attending a high-society party only twenty-four hours after committing a murder. Moral duplicity and self-indulgence are evident in Dorian's patronage of London's opium dens. Wilde conflates the images of the upper-class man and lower-class man in Dorian Gray, a gentleman slumming for strong entertainment in the poor parts of London town. Lord Henry philosophically had earlier said to him that: "Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. ... I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations"—implying that Dorian is two men, a refined aesthete and a coarse