Male masochism, a key element in many of the films, especially film noirs like Criss Cross, The Killers, Gilda, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and more modern explorations like Lolita and Cronenberg's M. Butterfly, earns its own chapter.
Wadler authored Liaison: The True Story of the M. Butterfly Affair (ISBN 0-553-09213-8) after interviewing Bernard Boursicot, who granted her wide access to information and insight into his affair with Shi Pei Pu.
The incident became the basis of David Henry Hwang's 1988 play M. Butterfly, in which B. D. Wong played Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer and spy based on Shi Pei Pu in the original Broadway production of the play.
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The story made headlines in France when it came to light and became the basis for the 1988 play M. Butterfly and the 1993 movie of the same title.
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In the afterword to the 1988 play M. Butterfly, the writer, David Henry Hwang, using the term "yellow fever," a pun on the disease of the same name, discusses white men with a "fetish" for Asian women.
Flutter By, Butterfly is an album by the Kenny Wheeler Quintet recorded in 1987 and released on the Soul Note label.
The following year she returned to Broadway as Beatrice in the original production of A View from the Bridge at the Ambassador Theatre, and again in 1988 as Helga in the original production of M. Butterfly at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Walkin' Butterfly was voted the 2nd best new josei manga in English of 2007 by readers of About.com.
Tsagkarakis made his international debut at the 2002 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Riesa, Germany, where he finished outside the medals with a fourth-place effort in the 50 m butterfly (23.75).
In the 2006 Asian Games held at Doha, Qatar, Arjun smashed his own national record in the 100 m butterfly.
He holds Jamaican records in the 50 and 100 M Breaststroke, the 50, 100, and 200 M Butterfly, and the 400 and 800 M Freestyle Relays.
In 2007, Madwed competed at the World University Games in Bangkok, where he won a gold medal as a part of the 4x200 m freestyle relay, a silver as a part of the 4x100 m medley relay, and a bronze in the 200 m butterfly.
-- Michael Groß article says 202/215. --> He also faced the 100 m butterfly world record holder, the United States' Pablo Morales.
Lars Frölander (2001-): Olympic gold medal winner, 100 m butterfly
She also trained Claire Donahue, silver medalist in the 100 m butterfly at the 2011 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, who later became a sixth-place finalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Lethcoe represented the United States in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a silver medal in the 100 m butterfly.
During the 2008 Oceania Swimming Championships held in Christchurch, New Zealand, Napoleon won gold in the 4×200 m relay and bronze in the 200 m butterfly.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi Hirniak won bronze in the 200 m butterfly during the first day of competition.