Posted by sad on 5/8/2003, 12:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Review from TODAY" --Previous Message--
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no.its in
: is it the I-weekly with both Zoe Tay N Fann Wong
: on cover?was there a William's interview?
:
: --Previous Message--
: ya this report is good.good for tor
: chingli.did
: any of u buy the recent (the one with zoe tay
: on cover) and (the one with fann wong on the
: cover).william's interview inside.the reports
: r quite good too.at least they dun sound
: negative...
: --Previous Message--
: Now, at least this sounds more like a review
: of
: the concert....and with much fairer
: comments....have a read.....=)
: ==============================================
: William So-rrow orchestrated
: ... at Friday's three-hour KTV-therapy session
: at Indoor stadium
: Monday ?August 4, 2003
: by Tor Ching Li
: chingli@newstoday.com.sg
:
:
:
: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: MAN shouldn't let women cry, Don't want to be
: happy alone, Loving someone is so hard, If
: this is the best distance to love you ?
: All signature chart-toppers of William So. And
: now, they're also theme songs of his love
: life.
: "Each was just another track in my
: albums," the soulful 35-year-old crooner
: from Hong Kong said in Cantonese at the
: Singapore Indoor Stadium last Friday.
: "Now, I'm living my lyrics."
: Indeed, William's recently confirmed check-in
: at "Heartbreak Hotel" had set the
: tone for his three-hour concert here ?which
: consisted of a selection of 23 ballads and
: blues numbers.
: Referring to ongoing divorce proceedings with
: Jane Foong, 36, his Singaporean wife of five
: years, William told the 7,000 fans:
: "Tonight, I hope you'll be able to enjoy
: the concert and forget all your worries. May
: the same apply to me."
: With that, he belted out in his powerful
: baritone voice (with a twist of angst),
: heartfelt renditions of karaoke favourites ?
: mostly his own and some re-interpretations of
: others'.
: Accompanied by the 40-member strong
: Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, William
: injected new life and soul into pop candy such
: as F4's Meteor Shower, Teresa Teng's evergreen
: I Only Care About You and Korean soundtrack
: hit, I Believe.
: But it wasn't just a sponsored KTV-therapy
: session with sympathetic Singaporean fans.
: There was also a touch of Hollywood and
: Broadway, with intermittent comic relief
: courtesy of William's wry wit.
: Donning a (disastrous) white tux and black
: jeans, matching white specs and a spiky, David
: Gan-coiffure, William reprised the "Play
: it again, Sam" a la Casablanca routine.
: Though not quite Humphrey Bogart, 18 years of
: showmanship don't count for nothing. William
: had the audience mesmerised as, to the
: accompaniment of a grand piano, he delivered
: the soundtrack hit from his 1993 TVB drama
: series, File of Justice II ?It Never Happened
: Before.
: But it did ?his wife's previous marriage,
: that is. Did William know about it before Hong
: Kong's entertainment tabloid hounds sniffed it
: out?
: "Everyone has a past," said a
: subdued William at the post-concert press
: conference. "Besides, it doesn't make a
: difference now."
: The singer said his marriage was "already
: on the rocks" when he was arrested for
: possession of Ecstasy last June, during a
: pre-dawn raid at a Taiwanese nightclub.
: "We were happy for only two out of the
: six years we were together," he
: confessed. "We both tried, but failed.
: Fate is hard to grasp ?perhaps we've run out
: of it."
: He now finds some solace in Buddhist teachings
: and friends ?some of whom came for the
: concert waving heart-shaped light-sticks.
: William may be just half the man he used to be
: worth when the divorce is finalised come
: August 30.
: But as frank as he was off-stage, William was
: as Frank as Sinatra when delivering New York,
: New York.
: Despite self-deprecatory jokes about his
: looks, William looked broodily fetching in a
: sleek, full-length black gown and gloves as he
: sang the classic.
: And, of course, when there's a Will, there's a
: Way: My Way.
: Sinatra's lung-popping favourite was chosen as
: the concert finale.
: "My father once told me, it takes a man
: with enough experiences to carry this song
: off," said an emotional William, who has
: sworn off relationships for now.
: "I never claimed to be a good man. What I
: can guarantee is good music."
: : :
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