Moon Lee Passion Gone Wild? by Natalia Khan Daniel

On my way back to Kuala Lumpur to visit relatives for the summer, I stopped by Hong Kong and had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Law, his wife Alyssa, daughter Jade, and more importantly and for the first time, Dr. Law’s parents.  Also present were other family friends and relatives who were gathered there for the beginning of vacation trips for the summer.  What impressed me was that this was truly a family with substance and stature.  It was a lot more than their economic means and professional successes --- it was their immense sense of educational and cultural awareness and their overwhelming sense of human decency.  Dr. Law and his three medical doctor brothers just donated millions of US dollars to their alma mater school of medicine to name a new auditorium after their parents’ name in gratitude for their phenomenal upbringing.  Dr. Dennis Law’s new musical, Terracotta Warriors 3D, will open on September 2^nd, 2014 in Beijing as truly the first 3D theatrical show in world history.  Later this year, he will direct and produce another new show that should bring new international pride and joy for Chinese theater --- another unprecedented 3D show that is entitled, Ode to Nature, showcasing the five virtues of Confucius and the Taoist five forces of nature in an entertaining fashion and with visual splendor never achieved before.

With such a family in the background of Moon Lee’s past family life, it shocks me to the core as to how such a woman could have done what she really did to turn her life upside down.  Moon’s historic scandal gave birth to new life for Dr. Law’s daughter and for his wife, Alyssa --- they are now on a new and gratifying pathway and that is the ultimate good thing.  But trying to reconstruct Moon Lee’s frame of mind in 2004 is frankly impossible ---- a mind that led her to begin a secret affair with an uneducated teenager with no money and worth, a kid who became her adoptive son that was twenty-two years her junior.  This was beyond passion gone wild in a one-night stand; it was a two and a half year long secret affair (until discovered) that required great strides to hide and conceal among the hundreds of people that surrounded this cast of persons in the course of their complicated theatrical business.  As an interested third person now, I know for a fact that most people in that circle in 2004 through 2007 was convincingly aware of this sexual scandal as it was happening.  The dumb teenage boy of course bragged to his few best friends about his encounters with the famous movie star, and the rest became history.  In retrospect, it must be devastatingly embarrassing for Moon Lee to recognize that she was spied on and joked about for two and half years by everyone around her before the scandalous love affair was discovered and brought to the open by Dr. Law.  Unlike other “criminals” caught red-handed and forced to admit fault, Moon Lee must be forced into forever “denial” just because the actual events were so incredibly embarrassing especially for a celebrity who previous record of personal life had been so stellar.

Indeed, the famous Moon Lee “Closet Affair” is not because of “passion gone wild” just for a fleeting moment.  It was more deliberate and long standing.  It was partly crazy and partly extremely well thought out.  Certain materials found in Moon’s stashed away personal belongings at a later date post-divorce when the house was being renovated show a narcissistic side of Moon Lee not appreciated before.   My analysis leads me to believe that she was only pretentiously humble but in fact she was quite enamored by herself.  How that may have led to her scandalous affair may never be understood.   There could not have been remotely normal sexual or romantic attraction between Moon and Zong, the unworthy kid.  There clearly was aberrant human behavior that may be attributed to “destiny” and that ultimately caused the downfall of “Cinderella”.  And tragically, most people of sound mind would believe that this “Cinderella” of Chinese motion pictures could never rise again.

Dr. Law put it aptly: “Facts are facts.  There is nothing about Moon to forgive or forget.  I want to live looking ahead, not back.  History always takes care of itself.”

For more photographs of interest, visit www.twofacesofthemoon.com.  

TwoFacesoftheMoon.com website launched

As publicist for the Law family, I have just launched the website for the book Two Faces of the Moon.   Written by Dr. Dennis Law in 2007 as an attempt to set the record straight, it really was a heartfelt effort to put to rest a lot of guessing and rumors by the media and the interested public.
I continue to be shocked by the persistent interest in this subject matter, at least according to the Chinese web.  Just days ago, another essay was written and published on-line listing the top ten actresses that had “immorally cheated on their husbands and then getting caught”.  Log onto the following website address: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7964e4ec0101ubfm.html and read a blog essay written by a prolific cyberspace writer whose has had over fifty-three million visits to his blog.  See ten gloriously attractive women whose lives have been turned upside down by passion gone wild.

Recently, I reviewed Moon Lee’s blog at sina.com and I am again baffled by her present lifestyle.  She has had millions of visits on her site, yet all she does is to write about things that has absolutely no importance whatsoever to most people with productive lives.  She makes commentary on a wide variety of almost senseless subjects, as if she is the ageless guru about trivial matters.  In one of her latest entries, she talked about the value of exercise, accompanied by photos of her fifty year old body lifting her leg high enough to almost dislocate a hip.  I suppose she is trying to impress her fan base.  I called Alyssa (Mrs. Dennis Law) to have her review this remarkable pose, and I could tell she had a real good laugh.  As a dance teacher and an award-winning choreographer, she said she was not quite clear what the message behind this awkward action could have been.  Moon did not have any grace of a skilled dancer; she looked like a martial artist doing this pose forcibly as an exercise --- a risk for someone of her age, but for what purpose?    

The purpose of this website is not to sell more books.  Dr. Law made it clear to me that he is not interested in book revenue.  It is just an avenue to propagate the bona fide truth.  There has been clear public interest in the subject matter.  So it is best that more facts about the past and the present get disseminated.  Dr. Law is presently in Beijing producing and directing the first 3D show in the world, Terracotta Warriors 3D, for a permanent run there.  Over the phone, I have gotten permission from him to gradually put the book’s content on the new website.  In this manner, people that are curious can get to appreciate the fascinating observations and analysis made by Dr. Law about this scandal. 

Natalia Khan Daniel