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发表于 2006-06-08 23:05:39
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To Fall from a Great Height
Leslie Cheung movie star and pop idol took a last, fatal step into the dark
BY RICHARD CORLISS
Was any actor as beautiful as Leslie Cheung? Did anyone bring to the gift of glamour the seductive insolence Leslie exuded? His first appearance in a filmis face soft and smooth, with lips that expertly puckered or poutedad the impact of a struck match. The screen flared to life; suddenly there was heat, and the incense of sulfur. To see him as the hurtful teddy boy in Days of Being Wild, the proud warrior in The Bride with White Hair and the dominant demon romancer in Phantom Lover is to realize there’s nothing more exhilarating than a trip to hell with him at the wheel.
Leslie (everyone from his co-workers to screaming fans called Cheung Kwok-wing by his English name) was gorgeous since his first TV appearance in a 1976 song contest. He matured in acting ability and the use of his smoldering charisma, but never seemed to age. “Guess how old he is,“ Hong Kong film folk would ask, then declare that Asia’s perpetual bad boy was flirting with middle ages suavely and as masterfully as he flirted with everything and everyone else. In his films, and in the spectacular concerts that had him crooning ballads one minute and flouncing in a Jean-Paul Gaultier gown the next, Leslie was the consummate tease. He performed a seven-veils dance for us, and we lost our heads to him.
He turned 46 last September, and he will forever stay that age. But he chose a drastic method of staving off wrinkles, a potbelly, the whims of a fickle public. Last Tuesday he scheduled a tea with his friend and former agent, Chan Suk-fan, at a favorite haunt, the Mandarin Oriental hotel. When he didn’t show, Chan called Leslie, who was on the terrace of the hotel’s 24th-floor gym. He said he’d meet her outside; he’d be right down. It was a final tease sick joke, reallyor when Chan came out she found his body on the pavement. He had leapt to his death.
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