Help Me, Eros (幫幫我，愛神) the new film by Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮) protege and emerging art-porn director Lee Kang-sheng (李康生) is scheduled for release on Jan. 11, building on the wave of hot and sweaty sexuality set up by Ang Lee's (李安) Lust, Caution (色，戒). (See Page 15 of today's Taipei Times.) If the acrobatic antics of Tang Wei (湯唯) and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (梁朝偉) were insufficient titillation, Eros moves into even more improbable regions of acrobatic lovemaking to spice up things up. There has already been much discussion about the “paper clip” coital position that featured in Lust, Caution, and now Eros has upped the ante with an “upright 69er,” which is receiving almost as much attention as a proposed one-on-four group session that had the girls of F4, the much maligned girl band, doing what they reportedly do best.
Lee's ambitious plan, which was to have him tied up in knots with co-star Ivy Yi (尹馨), and Stacy (周均諺), Tiffany (謝宜蓁) and Fanny (劉鄀婷) from F4, was torn apart when Yi decided, according to Next, that she was not going to be getting into any girl-on-girl action with the lesser celebs from F4. Fanny too had second thoughts about joining the coital scrum and so Lee is left only with two young ladies with whom to get it on (or off).
Pop diva A-Mei (張惠妹) has been quick to see that shaking booty is simply not enough to bring the punters in these days and her much anticipated pre-Christmas Star Tour at Taipei Arena — her first live Taipei show in five years — featured a bevy of buff male dancers in boxer shorts and not much else. The crew provided a good demonstration of various situations that might be found in the advanced chapters of a sex manual. Rumor has it that A-mei's current beau, baseball star Sam Ho (何守正), was a little hot under the collar when he watched the show — possibly because he had been banished from A-mei's side as she geared up for the big event.
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Related gossip reported in the Apple Daily Wednesday had Ho already finding consolation from his enforced banishment with One Million Star (超級星光大道) finalist Tseng Pei-ci (曾沛慈), who is more than 10 years younger than A-mei and a world away from Taiwan's “Queen of Pop” in terms of celebrity and talent.
TV shows have been quick to get on the bandwagon, and TVBS-G's Super Model No. 1 (決戰第一名) already has contestants posing in various acrobatic postures as part of the contest. Apple Daily reported on contestant He Wan-ting (何宛庭), now dubbed Little Tang Wei (小湯唯), who was so successful in demonstrating a “meat scissor” (人肉剪刀) position that her male partner started bulging in all the wrong places. It is good to see that TVBS continues to produce quality family entertainment for the masses.
It is only Jet Li (李連杰) who seems not to be having multi-partner on-screen sex. In fact, the bedroom sequence shot for The Warlords (投名狀, see Page 16 of today's Taipei Times), which opens today, was so bad that director Peter Chan (陳可辛) cut it right out of the film. According to Next, this was a great disappointment to Takeshi Kaneshiro (金城武), who had been giving Li tips on how to play the accomplished lover. Co-star Xu Jinglei (徐靜蕾) is quoted in a report posted on the Xinhua News Agency Web site (新華網) last month as saying that when it came time to getting physical, Li was like a block of wood and she had to take the lead.
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The talent show One Million Star continues to grab headlines with the success of Season One celebrity Aska Yang (楊宗緯), who will be releasing his new album Dove (鴿子) early next month. According to a 7-Eleven spokesperson quoted in the Apple Daily, preliminary orders of the CD, which will not be available until Jan. 19, are already sold out.
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