as part of an Angela Lansbury evening at TCM on Tuesday they're showing Albert Lewin's classic 1945 version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray with Hurd Hatfield, George Saunders (first glimpsed in his carriage reading a large-print edition of Baudelaire through his monocle)& a 19-year-old Lansbury stealing her scenes as a "cockney sparrow". Fans of poet Charles Reznikoff might be interested to know that Lewin (who also did the wonderful "Pandora & the Flying Dutchman" with Ava Gardner & James Mason) and he were close friends, as I found out in Reznikoff's letters. "Dorian Gray" one of those books that's a classic when read at 14 or 15 (like John Fowle's "Magus") but seems silly a year or two later...