Word: lovering
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...impact of a struck match. The screen flared to life; suddenly there was heat, and the incense of sulfur. To see him as the hurtful teddy boy in Days of Being Wild, the proud warrior in The Bride with White Hair and the dominant demon romancer in Phantom Lover is to realize there's nothing more exhilarating than a trip to hell with him at the wheel...
...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...
...Mask that Craig met his lover Dorothy Nevile Lees, a British author and translator for Craig who remained devoted to Craig throughout her life. Even during Craig’s times of financial trouble, she supported his work at The Mask. The exhibition features several letters which Craig wrote to Nevile Lees, instructing her both on running the magazine and on personal matters...
...With Edwards gone, the media, seeking the next heirs to the Bacon fortune, has descended on Pattaya, where he moved in the mid-1990s. The top candidates: Edwards' 22-year-old gay Thai lover and Philip Mordue, Edwards' roommate after Bacon's death. Mordue could not be reached at his penthouse in Pattaya. But last week, Edwards' boyfriend, who asked to be identified as "Jack," was drinking coffee in a Pattaya bar and pondering his strange fortune. Just 16 when he first met Edwards, Jack says his benefactor left him something (he won't say what) and a last request...
Heredity tells the story of Elizabeth Mann, a young woman working in London on a travel guide assignment, who discovers the skeleton of Jonathan Wild, a famous 18th century criminal, in an obscure museum. With the help of her lover, an infertility specialist, Elizabeth and the reader become engrossed in Wild’s mysterious life. Eventually, Elizabeth decides to take steps to bring the man closer to modernity that anyone ever thought possible...