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Annabel Chong finds new life on stage

Annabel Chong

A play about the life of Annabel Chong, star of Zane’s ‘The World’s Biggest Gang Bang’, where she had sex with 70 men and performed 251 sex acts in 10 hours, has opened today in Singapore. Toy Factory produced ‘251’, and assistant marketing manager Bryan Teo said 10 of the show’s 14 performances in the 220-seat theater are sold out.’251′ is a character study on Chong (real name Grace Quek), who achieved notoriety as a result of her gang bang film in 1995. Her video is banned in Singapore because of the country’s strict anti-pornography laws, only increasing the public’s interest in her, according to Teo. The play broaches her sexual assault before porn and her struggle with religion. Chong has said part of the reason she performed in adult movies was as a reaction to Singapore’s rigid social and political controls. ‘251’ director Loretta Chen said this theme would be explored as well.

‘251’ is not the first mainstream endeavor to portray Chong. A documentary about her life, ‘Sex: The Annabel Chong Story’ was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at 1999’s Sundance Film Festival.

Chong retired from porn in 2003 and is now said to be a U.S.-based web designer.

Full story at Xbiz

Indonesia Playboy editor acquitted!

A court cleared the editor of Playboy Indonesia on Thursday of distributing indecent pictures to the public and making money from them after a high-profile trial that exposed deep divisions in the Muslim-majority nation.

Editor-in-chief Erwin Arnada had argued the magazine was good for developing a pluralistic society, while the prosecution and Islamic hardliners who have regularly attended his high-profile trial said he had “harmed the nation’s morals.”

Efran Basuni, the presiding judge at the South Jakarta court, said the prosecution’s arguments “could not be accepted” and “were not diligent” because they failed to take account of Indonesian media laws created after the 1998 downfall of President Suharto’s regime that ushered in press freedom.

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