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...true scent of romantic obsession, one would have to go east: to the Chinese Peony Pavilion, Hong Kong director Yonfan's love story of two women (played by Japan's Rie Miyazawa and Taiwan's Joey Wong) in a Suzhou noble house. The film is so saturated in the sad glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The women don't make their sexual affinity explicit; but one can always feel the breath of the other's erotic interest, and the air goes humid with promise. Seeing Peony Pavilion is like getting high on the opium smoke a beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canned Heat | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...handsome people with complex urges?they all seem to swoon in the telling of a story about Jade (radiant Japanese star Rie Miyazawa), a Kunqu Opera singer who marries into a noble house and falls into a near-lesbian relationship with her new master's mannish cousin Rong (Joey Wong, the premier ghost diva of '80s Hong Kong cinema). They don't make their sexual affinity explicit; as Jade sings in one of her ballads, "Words are not needed in such a beautiful silence." This is the love that need not speak its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Movies Hit the Road | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...this X-rated “lost episode,” Michelle, played by James Augustine ’01 in his second BJ Show appearance, learned about the facts of life from Danny, after he himself learned them from Uncles Jesse and Joey, played by Novak and Averell...

Author: By Alyssa R. Berman and Beborah B. Doroshow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: BJ's Bring a Full House to Sanders | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...DIED. JOEY RAMONE, 49, gangly front man of seminal punk band the Ramones; of lymphatic cancer; in New York. (See EULOGY, below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 30, 2001 | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...every other band we went to see, where, intentionally or not, you felt like you were the peasants. In that sense, it was a revolution. More than a musical revolution, it felt like our people were onstage. When I was standing in the State Cinema that night listening to JOEY RAMONE and realizing that there was nothing else that mattered to him, pretty soon nothing else mattered to me. Imagination was the only obstacle to overcome. Anyone could play those four chords. You had to be able to hear it more than you had to be able to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JOEY RAMONE | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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