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...Staff writer Anthony S. Cheung can be reached at acheung@fas.harvard.edu...
...Cheung Chau Bun Festival [May 8] The "festival of the bun hills" on the tiny isle of Cheung Chau is one of the territory's most colorful festivals. Large bamboo towers studded with longevity buns are erected by the islanders to pay homage to the god of the sea. The climax of this eight-day fiesta is a resplendent street procession of costumed children on stilts. Go to discoverhongkong.com for details...
DIED. LESLIE CHEUNG, 46, smoldering, pansexual icon of Chinese films and music; a suicide, having jumped from a hotel terrace; in Hong Kong. Though best known to American audiences as the tragic artist in Farewell My Concubine, he also played the soft naif (A Better Tomorrow), the wily warrior (The Bride with White Hair) and the demon romancer (Happy Together). Early death has assured his standing as the great tragic male diva of the late 20th century...
...years! Back to the time of his first hit album; all through his reign as Canto-pop's top star and Hong Kong film's golden boy. If his eminence and allure could not make him happy, then he was a braver, more cunning artist than anyone suspected. Leslie Cheung danced before us, alluringly, and only let the seventh veil drop last week, revealing the desperate child beneath the diva's brilliant plumage...
...understandable English. The intimate atmosphere in the Leverett Old Library added another level of immediacy to the scantily cast vignettes, which were unhampered by excessive sets. All three were accompanied by various combinations of a chamber ensemble assembled especially for VI-4 and conducted by Music Director Anthony S. Cheung...