Cap'n Dirty sez, "Anybody seen 'The Anabel Chong Story'?"
Exerpts from the NYT 2-11-00 review entitled "Champ (Briefly)of
the Sexual Olympics":
One thing is clear about the star of the documentary "Sex:
The Anabel Chong Story." She craves attention.
As an undergrad in fine arts at UCLA, she decided to seek a
career in pornographic films. having achieved stardom in movies
like "I Can't Believe I Did the Whole Team" and "Depraved
Fantasies 3" she was 22 years old in 1995 when she decided
to seek a more advanced measure of fame. She had sex with 251 men
in 10 hours. (That's an average of 2.39 minutes per man!)
Although her record was rapidly eclipsed, she appeared on
Jerry Spirnger's show, among others. She appeared before the
Cambridge Union Debating Society. She had a press agent. She had
a fan club. And she lent herself to Gough Lewis's superficial
documentary about her....which dutifully and sometimes
graphically records her exploits and seeks commentary from its
subject, her friends, classmates, teachers, lover, employers and
relatives in her native Singapore, where she began life as Grace
Quek, the only child of middle-class parents....
As for having sex with 251 men in 10 hours, she argues that it
is no different from having sex with one man for 10 hours. "I
just wanted to explore my own sexuality," she says. Her
response to the possibility of contracting AIDS: "I believe
that sex is good enough to die for."
As documentaries go, "Sex: The Anabel Chong Story"
sheds heat but insufficient light.
