Klik GAMBAR Dibawah Untuk Lebih Info

Sumber Asal Berita :-

Posted: 31 Mar 2013 05:01 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES: A rare, signed copy of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has been sold for a record US$290,500 at auction, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The entertainment magazine reported on its website that the album, signed by all four members of the famous band, was purchased Saturday through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions by an unnamed buyer from the Midwest.

Earlier estimates suggested the album would sell for about US$30,000, the publication said.

The Beatles are believed to have signed the cover around June 1967 when the album was released.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the previous record for a signed Beatles album cover was US$150,000, which was paid for a copy of Meet the Beatles. - AFP

Message from beyond

Posted: 31 Mar 2013 12:41 AM PDT

A message left behind by Leslie Cheung before he died may concern the superstar's death in a fall from a Hong Kong hotel 10 years ago.

His former manager Florence Chan revealed recently that she was to announce the message at a concert in Hong Kong today, the eve of the pop star's 10th death anniversary.

Asked if the message "to everyone" concerns his death, Chan said, "You could say that," Apple Daily Taiwan reported two weeks ago.

She was said to have described in an interview how she found out about Cheung's death on April 1, 2003, at age 46. But she said: "I haven't seen the report. I will not talk about this again."

Reportedly, on the phone before his fall from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Cheung had told her: "I want to take the chance to have a good look at Hong Kong."

Forty minutes later, as she was reaching the hotel by taxi, he called and said, "Wait for me five minutes after at the hotel entrance and I will come."

Five minutes later, she heard a loud noise and saw an object landing on the hotel pavement. She thought a traffic accident had occurred. She phoned Cheung, but got his voice mail instead.

As reported, it was only after she tailed the ambulance carrying his body to the hospital that she told the police: "I think he is my friend." The police asked her in turn: "Is he Leslie Cheung?"

Cheung's commemorative concert, said to feature stars such as Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Karen Mok, will be held tomorrow. Today's show at The Coliseum will be simulcast to two cinema halls in Taipei, Taiwan, Apple reported.

It will also screen at 32 cinemas in Tokyo and Osaka in Japan, reportedly the first time a Chinese concert is beaming live to Japanese theatres. – The Straits Times, Singapore/Asia News Network

‘Leslie Cheung was a pure artiste’

Posted: 31 Mar 2013 12:41 AM PDT

ONE of Hong Kong's most beloved superstars, Leslie Cheung, was a multi-talented artiste – an accomplished singer with numerous best-selling albums and an award-winning actor capable of taking on a wide variety of roles. So what was it like working with the man?

Hong Kong filmmaker and theatre director Clifton Ko, 54, was one of Cheung's close friends and frequent collaborators, and says the late superstar was a "pure artiste" who always gave his all.

Ko was in Malaysia last year to promote Shooting Star The Musical, which tells the stories of three talented young men who left us prematurely – Cheung, singer Danny Chan and actor Paul Chung.

The musical played in 2009 at Genting's Arena Of Stars, and at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre in January this year.

Ko, who first worked with Cheung when the singer was just 20, said of the iconic megastar: "Leslie sets very high standards for himself and was such a perfectionist when it came to his art. He gave his all in everything he did, so he never accepted overlapping projects. That's because he preferred to devote all his attention to defining and fleshing out each character he chose to play.

"When he and I collaborated in All's Well, Ends Well (1992), Leslie played an effeminate man, and contributed a lot of his own ideas towards bringing his character to life. It was impressive how all the gestures came naturally to him.

"I've never met another actor who would internalise his characterisations so deeply that he became one with his characters. Meeting him again two months later, I was surprised to see that he had turned into someone else – a messy-looking character with shaggy hair and a raggedy beard. He told me he was playing a cop.

"So, when I heard of his demise, the first thing I did was turn to my assistant and ask about the last character he played," Ko added.

(Cheung's last film was Inner Senses, in which he played a troubled psychiatrist driven to the brink of suicide as he found himself haunted by some long-forgotten ghosts of his dark past.)

"He was such an easy-going fellow that he got along easily with everybody. He has no airs about him. Also, he was a pure artiste who didn't care about commercial gain. In fact, he wouldn't even bother to talk about money when we discussed our projects."

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Ahad, 31 Mac 2013

The Star Online: Entertainment: Music

The Star Online: Entertainment: Music

0 ulasan:

Catat Ulasan