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...gays, he never explicitly acknowledged his homosexuality. But neither did he try to suppress it, as some Hong Kong stars have done. He was too much the showman, the exhibitionist, in his way the truth teller. He played the pining gay opera star in Farewell My Concubine, then Tony Leung Chiu-wai's caustic lover in Happy Together. Both movies were worldwide hits and gave him a notoriety that didn't quite do him justice. He was gay, yes, but he was mainly other: a luscious rebuttal to Hong Kong cinema's stern or strutting machismo...
...Leslie?to sense his charm, his pretty petulance and his danger?but not what it was like to be Leslie. He seemed so pleased in there, in the fairy-tale kingdom of Cheung, but he may have felt that his castle was crumbling, that his subjects were restless. (Tony Leung was landing the big roles Leslie wanted.) And perhaps the mirror told him he was no longer the fairest...
...England Journal of Medicine. It was conducted by a team of doctors led by researchers from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colo., and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. "We still need to nail down the right dose," says Dr. Donald Leung of National Jewish. But he and his partners believe that TNX-901 could be the first real treatment for peanut allergy ever developed...
...Gong Li plays Zhou Yu, a young artist. On a business trip to the city of Chongyang, Zhou meets the shy poet Chen Ching, played by Tony Leung Ka-fai (the other Tony Leung). Chen falls in love with Zhou because, well, she's played by Gong Li, and Zhou falls in love with Chen because he's a sensitive poet. Zhou travels twice a week by train to meet Chen, who rarely leaves his library. Zhou spends so much time on the train that the sound of the wheels and the spinning scenery dominate her memories; director Sun Zhou...
...PURCHASED. WARNER BROS.; the remake rights to the 2002 Hong Kong box-office hit Infernal Affairs for $1.75 million after a bidding war with DreamWorks, Paramount and Miramax that began late last month; in Hong Kong. Starring Hong Kong heartthrobs Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the film was the territory's highest-grossing movie last year. The remake will be co-produced by prominent American actor Brad Pitt...