Moon Lee’s Fool’s Paradise

In a recent blog essay, Moon Lee was boasting of her lifestyle in which she can do whatever she wants.  And anyone that is envious of her is as much of a fool as she is.  It is unbelievable that she continues to waste time writing at intervals to a limited number of Chinese fans through her Chinese sina.com blog site.  Who cares what that ignorant group thinks anyway?  Since Moon is hell-bent on maintaining her nebulous “celebrity” status, I might as well help her along among the more sensible English-speaking group of readers. 

Let me assure interested people worldwide that Moon Lee cannot be living a satisfying life --- and that is purely something of her own doing!  During the times that I knew her well, I was certain that she wanted to be a person of substance.  She was brought up under impoverished circumstances as a child.  Her stardom that started at age seventeen or so was her new grand meal ticket that guided her lifestyle for the subsequent two decades.  With such meager beginnings and yet evolving into a beloved local movie star in Hong Kong and Asia was indeed a great Cinderella story.  I remembered she really got involved enthusiastically with Chinese dancing and the major theatrical works that we were producing.  It was major international accomplishment that would help to replace her movie career.

However, her downfall was triggered by an unbelievable sex scandal entirely of her own making.  Which Chinese movie star in history was dumb enough to have a prolonged affair with an initially under-aged employee (over twenty-years younger), someone we subsequently recognized as our “adoptive son”.  This was a scandal of world proportions because it involved an under-aged component, an incestuous element and also included the factor of “sexual harassment” in the workplace.  In 2004, it started when the foolhardy kid was under eighteen years of age while Moon was one of his employers.  There was no way of avoiding a world-class scandal of unprecedented proportions.  That is why the darn matter has so many legs so many years later.

So this workaholic old time “celebrity” with goals of history-making career success is now happy at home living the life of: 1) keeping her location secret; 2) keeping any work secret; 3) watching television freely; 4) cooking at home freely; 5) cultivating house plants freely; and 6) hiding her son and his endeavors secret. 

These pretenses are grossly embarrassing.  So if Moon Lee will only hide, for certain, there would be less SHAME.

   

The world knows that this was a world class sacrifice!

Moon Lee and her never-ending saga

Moon Lee and her never-ending saga

By all the rules of modern societal gossip, Moon Lee’s “Closet Affair” that ended what had been described as a fairy-tale marriage should have long become forgotten history.  The stunning and unbelievable affair with a teenage adoptive son happened between April of 2004 and July of 2006.  The intense flurry of international media attention was understandable after the announcement of divorce in 2007; after all, she was the media darling then and the actual events were factually shocking.

Yet, nearly ten years after her history-making betrayal of family and husband, the Moon Lee “Closet Affair” is still written up on essays in Chinese cyberspace on a weekly basis.  My wife, Alyssa Xiaoli, and I are emotionally way past her treacherous actions.  At one time, Alyssa was furious at Moon for trying to blame the divorce on her for being the “third person”, but she was gratified by winning a libel lawsuit against Moon in a Beijing court.  Now Alyssa often jokes that Moon’s loss has turned out to be her gain.  With time, anger has turned into a combination of pity and glee.

On one hand, we have the mind to ignore everything about Moon Lee.  On the other, we remain curious about the Chinese national preoccupation with Moon’s (and other actress’s) notorious sexual misconduct.  Since Moon Lee continues to strive to maintain her notoriety by writing Chinese blog essays frequently, we figured that we could indulge her and make her increasingly famous among English speakers by informing western readers with my occasional commentary.

With Moon’s son now eighteen years old and entering college (I suspect in eastern Canada), she will lose any child support payments from her first ex-husband.  So Moon Lee is financially on her own entirely.  Over these last five years since my divorce, she has not disclosed any professional or occupational advancement whatsoever.  I believe that if she had anything to brag about, she would have made public declaration of such.  So we can safely pity her for a lack of financial independence and also a lack of a personal love life. 

And as she constantly draws attention to herself via her Chinese blog to maintain and invigorate her fan base, all she can write about is home-making activities like cooking and planting and her non-extravagant and uninspired travel log. 

Moon’s son is lucky to leave the nest now.  She could be a loving mother to her son, but she cannot inspire him to greatness.  As a matter of fact, Moon Lee’s thoughtless actions robbed her son of an alternative pathway for life.

To Moon’s son, Aldo, I say: “The seven years that I spent as your step-father were good times between us.  The fact that I could not do more for you was not of my choosing.  As a child, you were blameless.  Your destiny was decided by your mother --- for that, I am sorry for you!”

Dennis K. Law MD

Moon Lee’s “Terracotta Warrior” Tragedy

Moon Lee’s “Terracotta Warriors” tragedy

My production company and I have just launched a world-shattering new 3D production of Terracotta Warriors and have just completed the first American four weeks’ tour in Denver, Colorado.  Although this history-making theatrical event marks a personal milestone for me, in a peculiar way it also reminds me of another monumental event of my personal life: it was during the 2004 rehearsals of the world-premiering Terracotta Warriors that trapped by then celebrity wife, Moon Lee, into a life-changing affair with a teenage dancer employed by my performance troupe.  And it was my liberation from that unenviable marriage that freed and motivated me to create the new unprecedented theatrical phenomenon that is Terracotta Warriors 3D.  Interested parties should check out www.tcw3d.com. 

As director and producer, I was gratified by Denver’s overwhelmingly favorable reaction to this production.  Having been tested and improved in nearly a hundred performances in Beijing and Hong Kong, the show Terracotta Warriors 3D that played thirty-two performances in Denver was truly triumphant.  This international exposure has already set us up to use this new 3D theatrical art direction to help advance the cause of Chinese performing arts both in China and internationally in the future.

From my perspective, poor Moon Lee and her pitiful antics that dragged me into an unavoidable “mud fight” are now distant memories only worthy of comic relief.  Strangely enough, some members of our audience still purchased my book, Two Faces of the Moon.  When I married Moon Lee, she was an endearing and respectable retired Hong Kong action actress and a good mother that was enthusiastic about Chinese dance.  Now, the world will always remember Moon for her indecency.  She has no one to blame but herself.  Yet, her loss has clearly become my gain.  My wife and daughter and I are thrilled with our daily lives.

The memorable success of the new Terracotta Warriors closes a loop in my personal life. 

Dennis K, Law MD      

Moon Lee - a life of denial

Moon Lee – a life of denial

I have never been a fan of web gossip, both in English and Chinese, so needless to say,

I do not follow the lives of the “rich and famous” in China and Asia.  This is especially

true for the rich or famous celebrity in the entertainment industry because their

personal stories are even more meaningless for a person in my position.  So I depend

on Chinese friends to keep me updated – and I do not even care about celebrity gossip

most of the time.

Poor Moon Lee apparently does not get listed as an “A” list actress even of the past

because she was an action star and was never involved in films of dramatic content. 

Yet she is nearly always included in lists when scandal or sexual misconduct is discussed. 

How sad for a woman who as a youngster was forced by life’s circumstances to build

something out of nothing.  Moon Lee’s physical beauty was nature’s gift to her even

though these attributes were not shared by any of her siblings.  She used this and her

athletic qualities to her great advantage starting as a late teen.  Even as a “B” actress

only excelling in action films, she was nevertheless the target of admiration of action

fans worldwide.  Over her scandalous betrayal and her unrealistic greed in the divorce

process, Moon and I might have become irreversible enemies, but I know her well

enough that I believe in her saner moments she would agree that she indeed squandered

too much in the chase of so little.  The impoverished and uneducated teenage lover boy,

Zhong Tianyi, was not worth it then and now for all the heartache and shame that resulted.

As for me, what was thought a tragedy has truly become a blessing in disguise.   Many

friends, and even my mother, often comment on how fortunate I am to have a wife like

Alyssa Xiaoli Wang now.  She has indeed merged as a star of a wife and mother and has

made me the envy of many.  We occasionally still re-tell stories of the past only to be

amused by how interesting life can be and how miraculously things can all work out. 

Lesson learned is that even “B list” movie stars can be very bad bets on life’s journey;

they may all suffer the fate of living life too often as make-belief.

Now we are set to put on the American premiere of our “first-in-the-world” 3D show,

Terracotta Warriors 3D, for a four week run in Denver in August. 

These are great times!

Dennis K. Law MD       

MOON LEE --- "SLEEPLESS IN MACAU"

For all that are concerned about the fate of Moon Lee, I can help by disclosing that I believe she is living in relative seclusion in Macau.  She has returned to writing in Chinese in her blog about “nothing” and is determined not to reveal her whereabouts or whatever is happening to her life.

There was a period of months in the recent past when Moon Lee kept her blog essays to a minimum.  For a while, there might have been reason to believe that she would act to keep her notoriety on the Chinese web to a minimum.  That would have helped to reduce the repetitive recitation of her self-induced scandal in the Chinese media.  Well, that is now clearly not the case.  Moon has been writing essays frequently in her Chinese blog about her travels, her domestic life and other topics without redeeming value to the delight of her limited fans.  Even though we have now terminated our use of a publicist, I might as well continue efforts to maintain her ‘fame” in the English language.  Moon clearly does not want to slip into oblivion and let her scandal slowly recede into distant memory.  It is a farce that the Chinese web brings up her “passion gone wild” scandal weekly while she fuels her ignorant fan base with essays about nothingness. 

About eleven years have elapsed since Moon Lee started her life-changing and destructive extra-marital affair with a kid that soon became her adopted son.  It started when she was about 39 years old and the unworthy kid was a little under 18.  Unless Moon cares to personally explain, no one will ever know the reasons why she plunged into this emotional and sexual abyss.  Even though the Chinese media has attributed her actions to my accusations of her “unusually prominent sexual appetite”, this is de facto incorrect.  Regardless of the reasons behind her madness, the much needed divorce process took four years due to a dysfunctional US court system while she gained very little financially of what she asked for from the Court.  As a matter of fact, I know for certain that the judge’s final ruling was devastating for her.  Unable to control herself, she cried openly in Court and pleaded with the judge to no avail.  She moved away from Denver three months later, never to reveal where she would be headed or any of her future plans.

During most of the divorce process, she touted motherhood and made many references to her son and family life as a single parent.  That was strange because, prior to the divorce, Moon always concealed that she had a son from a previous marriage.  Towards the end of the divorce process, she stopped referring to her son altogether, and since the divorce was adjudicated, she has become totally mute about her son, her work if any, or anything else that may be deemed “personal”.  Even though my own life has experienced remarkable and fulfilling renewal, I cannot help but feel sorry for Moon and her son.  What a remarkable descent from heaven to hell in one’s life --- and all this for what?  She would deny that she is in hiding because she does travel and is not confined to her residence.  For certain, though, she is in partial seclusion!

My present wife, Alyssa, is an amazing woman and also an incredible mother to our daughter.  My life after my surgical career has blossomed into professional avenues that are new, challenging and gratifying.  I have directed and produced the first Chinese Rock-Musical, Monkey King, in 2008 and this went on to win a Toronto Dora Award for Best Choreography, and also received a Dora nomination for Best Costume Design.  Monkey King, the live-theatrical show, was then shot into the world’s first cinema quality 3D movie, and later went on to win the Best Foreign Film Award at the Korean 3D Film Festival.  Recently, I produced and directed the world’s first ever truly 3D theatrical show, Terracotta Warriors 3D.  This history-making theatrical phenomenon has already played in Beijing and Hong Kong for nearly a hundred performances.  With new gains and potentials nationwide in China, my production company is heading for new plateaus of achievement.  Check out this theatrical spectacle at www.tcw3d.com.