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September 09, 2005
LA LOVES LESLIE TOMORROW
The Asian Film Foundation is hosting FOREVER LESLIE, a Leslie Cheung memorial event tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, September 10) on the USC campus in Los Angeles.
Not only can you watch two Leslie movies (OKINAWA RENDEZVOUS and FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE) but you can have snacks and purchase memorabilia that was specially donated and signed by celebs for this event (no, the signatures are not from Leslie...he's dead, silly).
It's been two years since Leslie Cheung killed himself on April 1 and the Hong Kong film industry has been poorer without him.
There's two Leslie Necrophile...I mean memorial and tribute organizations and they are:
THE LESLIE LEGACY ASSOCIATION (which has a picture on its homepage that scares me)
and RED MISSION which has an oath on its homepage that you can chant.
September 9, 2005 at 09:04 AM | Permalink
Comments
I liked Leslie Cheung as much as the next guy, perhaps moreso, but I find the whole post Leslie death hysteria a little bit on the far edge of creepy-it was just so....efficient. My employer was Chinese and informed me that Leslie Cheung had jumped off a roof, having read it in the paper that day. I think it was roughly one week later, that I went to Chinatown in San Francisco to check up on movies, and there were already entire sections, filled with Leslie Cheung "memorial" DVD compilations and CDs and the like. It's like they were waiting for him to die....
I can't say if it was that bad in other places (ie: NYC), but I was still surprised. I don't think Anita Mui got that kind of turn-around in HER memorial CD compilation...
Posted by: FiveVenoms | Sep 9, 2005 11:47:31 AM
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