unhappy april fool

HE ORDERED A glass of lemon water, a pack of cigarettes and an apple. He went out to the balcony overlooking Victoria Harbour and asked his waiter for pen and paper. And then he hurled himself off the balcony. Cheung was a movie star, a singer and an icon of Chinese pop culture. His body—the famously beautiful face eerily unmarred—was later found by a foreigner on Connaught Road.

[ article from newsweek via psychicpants ]

Leslie Cheung's death overshowed even the SARS situation in Hong Kong. He starred in films by John Woo and Wong Kar-Wai. He was in Happy Together with Tony Leung, and it turns out he's been suffering from bouts of depression. He usually wore casual clothes, but the day he died, he wore a suit and hung out in his favorite hotel. Then he took a dive, on April Fool's nonetheless.