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Jen Chung
Published Apr 1, 2003
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Leslie Cheung, renowned Canto pop singer and actor, jumped to his death in Hong Kong. It's unclear why, but he did have a suicide letter. He starred in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow as well as Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine and Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together.
Roger Ebert praised Cheung's performance in Farewell, My Concubine: "Leslie Cheung's concubine is never less than convincing, and his private life - he is essentially raised by the opera as a homosexual whether or not he consents - contains labyrinthine emotional currents."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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