STEFAN HAMMOND, Leslie's Demons (excerpt of the first words), from GoldSea, 1998,
Leslie Cheung has more shadows angles than his pretty face.
Six months of rain have fallen in the last four days, crumbling hillsides and drowning carparks in sludgy mud throughout the brand-new Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The parachute-journalists have packed it in, disappointed, no doubt, by the lack of dramatic photo-ops. Keiko Yoshimoto, founder of Leslie's Japan Fan Club, and I splish-splash doggedly along Matheson Street.
Our destination is wei nin zhong qing ("for your heart only"), the fashionable Causeway Bay cafe owned by Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung. Like most things Leslie, it's intriguing and quirky: monochromatic in the extreme, with darkened wood paneling and recessed wall-lighting. (...)
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