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- August
13th, 2003
Will
official Christian Bale's web site work again?
,
August 13, 2003
Recently
in our news we had supposed that there was some conflict
between Bale and Harrison Cheung,
who have been supporting Bale's
official site for a long
time. Our supposition was founded on some facts. Particularly,
afore mentioned site is 'under construction' more than a
year. And recently Harrison Cheung spoke
hugely sharp of praising article about Bale from
OregonLive.com.
Namely he had advised the writer to differ 'image' and 'real
person'.
In substance, it was hint that Bale is not so good as press
reports. But friends (or especially imagemakers!) usually
avoid such hints.
We asked our visitors who know something about it to share
with us this information. Soon we've received the letter.
Our correspondent asserted that a year ago Bale did really
stop to be a client of Cheung's company because of financial
disagreements, and since that time they are in the bad relationships.
But Harrison Cheung (who was asked by us
to clarify this situation) fully denies the existence of
any conflict. He
said he wrote to OregonLive.com because the praising article
about Bale 'stepped over the bounds of journalistic integrity
and good taste'. 'The article decided to paint Christian
as 'perfection' and they listed a number of attributes which
no longer apply to Christian. For example, he is not a vegetarian
and he no longer is involved with animal rights charities' Mr.Cheung wrote. 'The point of my letter was to rebuke the
writer for writing something without doing what he was supposed
to do - report! Ask the questions) to see if the information
still applies or is out of date - that's what a reporter
is supposed to do. The other point of my letter was to remind
people not to put actors up on pedastals - they are just
people with very public jobs and it is very dangerous to
call anyone 'perfection'.
On our question "Will Bale's official
site work again?' Harrison Cheung answered it is quite
possible but when and
in what form, he doesn't know because he 'is busy with
his other clients and Christian is no longer interested in
the
Internet as a medium'.
Concerning rumours and someone's statements about possible
conflict he said 'It' s just rumours'. 'Internet
fans are understandably disappointed with the absence of
Christian's
official site but that's hardly any reason for negative rumors', he wrote. 'The CBFC still exists and the fan lists still
exist. The fan community is going strong for almost 10 years!'