M. Butterfly News

A strikingly handsome, lithe and somewhat androgynous Hong Kong-born actor of film and stage, John Lone became established on stage initially via several collaborations with playwright David Henry Hwang.

Name in Englis h: John Lone Name in Chinese: a OEe3 4 [a OEe3 4 ] Name in Pinyin: ZA n LA3ng Gender: Male Birth Year: 1952 Birth Place: Hong Kong Current location: New York, China, Canada Profession : Education:A Chin Chiu Academy - " Hong Kong; Santa Ana Community College; American Academy of Dramatic Arts - " New York Awards:A 1990, 50 Most ...

Rapidly appeared on the theatrical landscape with his first play "FOB" , which opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival when Hwang was in his early twenties.

I'm sure most reasonably educated people are aware of Puccini's masterwork Madame Butterfly .

Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese operatic soprano who along with his French lover was convicted of espionage and whose complicated affair inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play "M. Butterfly" and the movie of the same title, has died.

Video Event of the Week: Is it Sony's new DVD of The Strange One , a rarely seen gays-in-the-military drama with Ben Gazarra and George Peppard ? Could Disney's disc of The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Experience concert flick possibly get the nod? Or is there even the slightest chance that Fox's Blu-ray of 12 Rounds , the latest action flick starring ...

Chinese opera singer SHI PEI PU, who inspired the Broadway show M. BUTTERFLY, has died.

Jeremy Irons and John Lone take wing in M. Butterfly. It's been a long wait for M. Butterfly's DVD debut.

Here are some highlights from this week's DVD releases. Three stars out of five Nick, Joe and Kevin hit the stage at the Anaheim arena and this 3D movie puts you in the front row of their sold-out spectacle.

Stone Of Destiny A fact-based tale of four Scottish students who in 1951 swiped the Scottish nationalist symbol from Westminster Abbey.

"We can always fool a foreigner," is supposedly a common Chinese saying. When the foreigner is ready to be deluded, as is Jeremy Irons' Gallimard in M. Butterfly , director David Cronenberg's 1993 adaptation of David Henry Hwang's play, the job is halfway done.

Released in 1993, M. Butterfly was the most commercially viable project David Cronenberg had directed, save perhaps for The Fly .

In Mel Brooks' The Producers , the characters played by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel pay a visit to the Park Avenue home of eccentric theatrical director Roger De Bris, who greets them in a flowing peignoir.