DAYS OF BEING LESLIE
THAT OLD FEELING: DAYS OF BEING LESLIE
RICHARD CORLISS, That Old Feeling: Days Of Being Leslie, from "Time Asia", April 3rd, 2003, online
Richard Corliss on the beautiful career and shocking death of Hong Kong idol Leslie Cheung.
In the first minutes of Wong Kar-wai's 1990 Days of Being Wild, Leslie Cheung strikes up a chat with Maggie Cheung. She's lovely and lonely; he's smoldering and supercool. Out of the blue, he purrs a boast to Maggie: "You'll see me in your dreams tonight." Next day he comes by again, and she brags that she didn't dream of him.
"Of course," he replies with practiced confidence, "you couldn't sleep at all."
Ah, Leslie: suave, cocksure, with a touch of the brute (they love him for it) and a hint of sad solitude. A Canto-pop idol and film idol since the '70s, Cheung was dubbed "the Elvis of Hong Kong" by Canadian critic John Charles. Except that Leslie lasted longer, did more, dared more. And did it his way. It's fair to call him the most widely adored and admired male diva of the late 20th century.
RICHARD CORLISS, That Old Feeling: Days Of Being Leslie, from "Time Asia", April 3rd, 2003, online
Richard Corliss on the beautiful career and shocking death of Hong Kong idol Leslie Cheung.
In the first minutes of Wong Kar-wai's 1990 Days of Being Wild, Leslie Cheung strikes up a chat with Maggie Cheung. She's lovely and lonely; he's smoldering and supercool. Out of the blue, he purrs a boast to Maggie: "You'll see me in your dreams tonight." Next day he comes by again, and she brags that she didn't dream of him.
"Of course," he replies with practiced confidence, "you couldn't sleep at all."
Ah, Leslie: suave, cocksure, with a touch of the brute (they love him for it) and a hint of sad solitude. A Canto-pop idol and film idol since the '70s, Cheung was dubbed "the Elvis of Hong Kong" by Canadian critic John Charles. Except that Leslie lasted longer, did more, dared more. And did it his way. It's fair to call him the most widely adored and admired male diva of the late 20th century.
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