Merde Butterfly

Shi Pei Pu the one-time Chinese operatic singer other time spy, has died in Paris at the age of 70.

Together with his then lover, Bernard Boursicot, their les liaisons dangereuse became the inspiration for the 1988 Broadway hit M.Butterfly, and 1993 film of the same name.

Needless to say I find it difficult to believe Boursicot in their twenty-year relationship, not realize Shi was a man masquerading as a woman. Extremely difficult. Then again, you'd want to believe what you want to believe when your head, er . . . I mean heart is messed with.

Boursicot, now 64 and recovering from a stroke, showed no sadness when he learnt of Shi's death. What a fine display of gentlemen's behavior, not. Without Shi's shenanigans, Boursicot would just have been another bean-counter anonymous. Merde!