2003年4月泰晤士报张国荣的报道（zz）

Copyright 2003 Times Newspapers Limited  

The Times (London)  

  

April 3, 2003, Thursday  

  

SECTION: Features; 35  

  

LENGTH: 1060 words  

  

HEADLINE: Leslie Cheung  

  

  

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Leslie Cheung, pop singer and actor, was born ion September 12, 1956. He fell to his death on April 1, 2003, aged 46.  

  

Flamboyant and outrageous singer and actor who won international acclaim for his role in Farewell, My Concubine  

  

THE singer and actor Leslie Cheung was one of Hong Kong\'s most popular performers, and attained international acclaim for his portrayal of an opera star in the 1993 historical drama Farewell, My Concubine. The performance won him the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival that year. Yet he was no one-trick pony, more an incredibly versatile workhorse.  

  

In more than 70 movie outings, about a dozen of which were familiar to international film enthusiasts, he appeared in dark romances, action thrillers, fantasies and cheery comedies. He was a psychotic killer in Double Tap (2000) and, more famously, one half of a male couple in Happy Together (1997). He was himself one of Asia\'s few openly homosexual artists. A suave and outspoken individual with boyish good looks and caustic wit, he was one of the former Crown Colony\'s exceptional celebrities.  

  

The youngest of ten children, Leslie Cheung was the son of a leading Hong Kong tailor, who made suits for William Holden, Alfred Hitchcock and Marlon Brando.  

  

Cheung remembers his father always being too busy for him, and he was brought up by his grandmother. At a young age he asked if he could be educated in England, and at 13 enrolled as a boarder at Norwich School. He used to visit Southend, where a relative owned a restaurant. He started working as a barman at weekends, then began singing at the restaurant, earning Pounds 5 a week.  

  

Cheung went on to study textile design at Leeds University. But in 1976 his father had a stroke that left him partially paralysed, prompting Cheung to return home, where he became a jeans salesman. His musical appetite grew and his friends entered his name in a music contest on Hong Kong\'s ATV. Singing American Pie, he took second place. Subsequently he appeared regularly on television commercials before in 1978 making his film debut, Erotic Dream of the Red Chamber. His performance was unremarkable, save for his baring his behind.  

  

Nonetheless, he was young and pretty, and he had that James Dean air of tenderness and menace that directors like. These qualities worked to his benefit in his music career too, and in 1981 he became a huge hit with young fans in Hong Kong for his album The Wind Blows On.  

  

Cheung\'s cinema breakthrough came in John Woo\'s 1986 A Better Tomorrow. He warmed to Woo greatly during the shooting of the film. As a rookie cop, Cheung\'s character has discovered that his brother has killed his father. Woo told him to do whatever came naturally in that scene, so he punched a mirror. Woo held his hand and began to cry.  

  

In 1987 Cheung played his first substantial romantic role, as an opium-smoking playboy, in Stanley Kwan\'s successful Rouge. Three years later he was named best actor for his role in Wong Kar-Wai\'s eerie production of Days of Being Wild.  

  

His role as Cheng Dieyi in Chen Kaige\'s Farewell, My Concubine remains his grandest achievement. The story of two trainees at the Peking Opera who form a lifelong friendship works simultaneously as a micro-history of China in the 20th century. Cheung plays the more effeminate of the two, whose vulnerable and affectionate aura secures him not only female roles but the attentions of other men. He has only eyes for his companion Duan Xiaolou (played by Zhang Fengyi), who in turn marries a prostitute. It was a stirring performance in an exquisite and visually stunning production. A workaholic and perfectionist, Cheung spent six months in Beijing before the shooting of the film, learning Mandarin and mastering the performance style of Chinese opera.  

  

Three years later he returned to historical drama as an aggrieved relative of a decadent noble family in Temptress Moon. Set in 1911, it was as melodramatic as Farewell, My Concubine, though less well received.  

  

Much more daringly, in 1997 he appeared Happy Together, written and directed by Kar-Wai. In it he and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai play lovers who travel to Argentina to seek a new life and adventure, but end up only quarrelling. It is a bleak, claustrophic tale of passion and jealousy that won Kar-Wai the best director prize at Cannes.  

  

With his ascendency in the Hong Kong cinema, Cheung had announced in 1989 his decision to retire from pop music. In 1997 he made his comeback, much to the delight of his fans. Dubbed by one critic \"the Elvis of Hong Kong\", he had an eye for showmanship more reminiscent of Elton John. In his year-long \"Passion\" tour of 2000, he sported eight Jean-Paul Gaultier creations, each more exotic than the previous - from a white tuxedo with angel wings to a tight skirt and long black wig. In songs such as He\'s a Woman, She\'s a Man, he consolidated this androgynous image. His popularity stretched beyond Asia too: tickets for one pre-Christmas show at Caesar\'s Palace in Las Vegas, costing as much as $ 238, sold out rapidly.  

  

For his contribution to Hong Kong\'s music industry in 2000 he was given the Gold Needle Award by Radio Television Hong Kong.  

  

His ostentatious showmanship on stage reflected a self-assured attitude off it. He delighted in the extravagant and the ornate. \"I\'m a narcissist,\" he once remarked.  

  

\"I love the way I look and perform.\" Colleagues remember a favourite remark as he paraded in a new outfit: \"Doesn\'t this look nice on me?\" He was a rascal and a charmer, whose eternally boyish features always made him look a decade younger than he was.  

  

Although he adored the limelight he hated the invasion of privacy that came with it. Before Hong Kong\'s handover to China in 1997 he moved to Vancouver. \"I have worked bloody hard for 20 years,\" he said two years ago. \"I was penniless, dying hard for my groceries. I can now live in a reasonably sized detached house. I\'m still very strong in Japan and Korea. But I may be a little passe in Hong Kong.  

  

The place is so extravagant, vulgar, expensive. I may be too soft for Hong Kong. I don\'t always count myself as one of them.\"  

  

It was not known what caused the onset of his depression in the past year. He had withdrawn from Hsu Feng\'s project Beautiful Shanghai in October and had been seen seldom in public since.  

  

  

LOAD-DATE: April 3, 2003  

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泰晤士报（伦敦）  

  

2003年4月3日，周四  

  

版面：人物，35版  

长度：1060字  

标题：张国荣  

  

正文：  

  

张国荣，流行歌手和演员，生于1956年9月12日。2003年4月1日跳楼身亡，时年46岁。  

辉煌而叛逆的歌手兼演员张国荣，以电影霸王别姬获得国际赞誉。他是香港最受欢迎的艺人之一，在1993年，他在历史剧霸王别姬中塑造了一位京剧名伶，由此获得了国际范围内的赞誉。张在该年的康城影展中获得了grand prix。然而，他并不是昙花一现的演员，他是一位有着不可置信的多方面能力的全才。  

在他的70多部电影中，有十几部电影对于国际电影的热心者而言是为人熟知的，他广泛涉足悲剧爱情片、动作惊悚片、虚构故事片和喜剧片。在电影枪王中他是一个心理变态的杀手，而更有名的，是在春光乍泻中，饰演一位同性恋人。他本人是亚洲为数不多的公开同性恋倾向的艺术家。他温和而坦率，有着男孩般漂亮的外貌和敏锐的智慧，他是香港最杰出的名人之一。  

  

张国荣是一个出色的香港成衣师最小的儿子，排行第十。他的父亲曾为william holden， Alfred hitchock，和marlon brando做过衣服。  

  

在张的记忆中，父亲总是忙得顾不上他，他由祖母带大。很小的时候，他问家人能不能送他去英国读书，13岁时，他成了norwich学校的寄宿学生。他曾常常去southend，那儿他有个亲戚，开了一家餐厅。他在周末的时候做过酒吧侍应生，后来开始在餐厅唱歌，一星期挣5英镑。  

  

其后，张于Leeds University（利兹大学）读纺织设计，可是在1976年，他父亲中风而半身瘫痪，张因而回港，后来做了一段时间的牛仔裤销售。他对音乐的兴趣日益增加，他的一个朋友又把他的名字写进了香港ATV电视台的一个歌唱比赛中。他以一曲americam pie获得亚军。之后，他不时地出现在电视广告节目中，直到1978年拍了电影处女作，红楼春上春。除了其中的出位镜头，他的演出并不值得注意。  

  

可是无论如何，他年轻而漂亮，而且他的气质中有着James Dean式的温柔和威胁，这正是导演们所喜爱的。这些特质对他的音乐生涯同样有裨益，在1981年他因专辑风继续吹而成了香港年轻歌迷心目中的偶像。  

  

张电影生涯的一个突破点是1986年吴宇森的英雄本色。在这部影片的拍摄中，张使吴深受感动。在片中，张的角色是一个新手警察，发现自己的哥哥杀了他们的父亲。吴告诉张在那一场中无论做什么动作，只要自然表演就可，于是，张用拳打碎了一面镜子。吴握着张的手，不禁涕下。  

  

在1987年关锦鹏的电影胭脂扣中，张扮演了他的第一个有重要意义的爱情片男主角，一个吸鸦片的花花公子。3年之后，他以王家卫电影，一部让人迷惑的电影阿飞正传，而获最佳男主角。  

  

陈凯歌电影霸王别姬中，张饰演的角色程蝶衣，是张最辉煌的成就。这部电影既是关于两位在多年相处中建立了深厚友情的中国京剧演员的故事，也是一部20世纪中国微缩史。张扮演的角色是两个主人公中更为女性化的一位，他的脆弱和款款深情使他得以扮演女性角色，并获得了其他男人的喜爱，在他的眼中，只有他的师哥段小楼，而段后来却娶了一个妓女为妻。电影精致华丽，视觉上令人震撼，表演则更是荡气回肠。张，一个工作迷和完美主义者，开机前用了六个月的时间在北京学习普通话和掌握京剧的表演风格。  

  

3年之后，他在另一部历史剧风月中饰演一个落寞大家族中的一个受委屈的亲戚。电影的背景设在1911年，与霸王别姬同样具有戏剧风格，只是没有像后者那样受欢迎。  

  

1997年他出现在电影春光乍泻中，则更大胆了。这部电影由王家卫编导。在片中，他和梁朝伟饰演一对来到阿根廷寻找新生活和冒险经历的恋人，最终却在争吵中分手。这一部关于激情和嫉妒的阴冷忧郁的电影，给王家卫带来了康城最佳导演奖。  

  

在香港电影界取得优势地位的同时，张在1989年宣布告别歌坛。1997他的复出令他的歌迷欣喜万分。被一个评论家称为“香港的Elvis”，张国荣对舞台表演很有审美力，且其风格比elton john更为怀旧。在他在2000年为期一年的热情巡回演唱会中，穿了八套jean paul gaultier设计的服装，一套比一套怪异——从带羽翼的白色燕尾服到紧身裙和黑色假发。在如金枝玉叶等歌曲中，他更巩固了这种模糊性别的形象。他不仅仅在亚洲受到欢迎：圣诞节前夕在拉斯维加斯的恺撒宫的一次演出，票价贵至238美元，依然很快售空。  

  

鉴于其对香港音乐业的贡献，2000年他被香港广播电视台授予金针奖。  

  

他在舞台上的夸示华美的表演风格，表现出了一种自信态度。他钟爱奢侈华丽和装饰。“我是一个自恋者。”他曾这样说过，“我喜欢自己的样子和表演。”他的同事记得他炫耀自己新装束时爱说的一句话，“我这样看起来是不是很不错？”他是一个淘气鬼，一个可爱迷人的人物，他外表中如男孩般的那些地方使他看上去比实际年龄要年轻十岁。  

他虽然钟爱镁光灯，但讨厌随之而来的被人刺探隐私。在1997年香港回归中国之前，他移民到vancouver。“我已经辛苦工作了20年，”他2年前曾说，“我曾经很贫窘，衣食堪忧。现在我住着足够大小的独立的房子。我在日本和韩国依然很受欢迎，可是在香港或许有些过气。香港太挥霍，庸俗，奢华。对香港来说我也许太温和（?）了些。我有时并不把自己算成是他们中的一员。”  

  

在过去的那些年里，是什么导致了他的忧郁症的产生，仍然无人知晓。去年十月，他从hsu feng’s的《美丽上海》一项目中退出，从那以后即极少在公众场合露面。  

  

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