Honoring Bruce Lee

July 21st, 2009 at 08:18am Will Pfeifer

The first sentence of this Associated Press  story about an effort to create a Bruce Lee museum is certainly attention-getting, even if you’re not a fan of Bruce Lee…

HONG KONG – The former home of Bruce Lee is now a love motel, renting rooms by the hour. But officials on Monday launched a design competition to turn it into a Hong Kong museum for the kung fu icon.

The story goes on to discuss a design competition aimed at establishing a permanent museum to honor the groundbreaking action star who, besides starring in ENTER THE DRAGON and other classics, revolutionized the martial arts movie and thereby shaped the way action movies are today. (No ENTER THE DRAGON? No MATRIX.)

There is an impressive statue of Bruce Lee on Hong Kong’s Avenue of Stars, located on Victoria Harbor. Here’s a picture of the wife and me during a 2006 trip to HK. We were actually in China to adopt our daughter, but being a devoted Hong Kong film fan, I couldn’t pass up a chance to see the Avenue of Stars.

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