• The Hong Kong Film Award Association elected Bruce Lee as "Chinese Cinema Star of the Century" in March this year. Golden Harvest's Raymond Chow Man-Wai and Shannon Lee accepted on behalf of Bruce. Shannon said: "Thank you for the love and support you have given my father all of these years. I hope that his spirit and philosophy will continue to live on." Kung Fu Hustle director Stephen Chow Sing-Chi credited Bruce with paving the way and turning kung fu into a respectable art. Apparently the HKFAA was to be involved in the Bruce statue to be unveiled on Bruce's birthday on November 27th. HAPPY 65th BIRTHDAY BRUCE.

• Now the Hong Kong government doesn't want to assist the fan club in paying for the statue. what's wrong with those people? Read the full article.

• Hong Kong is finally going to honour its most famous son by erecting a Bruce Lee statue. Read the full article.

• Raymond Chow says Bruce's death was an accident. Read the full article.

• 20 July marked the 32nd year of Bruce Lee's death at 32. A loss still keenly felt by the martial arts and fan community.

• Hong Kong Legends news: "Sifu Dan Inosanto and world-acclaimed action-director, Jeff Imada, have both appeared in front of the HKL cameras recently to record two fascinating interviews on the life, philosophy and fighting techniques of the late, great Bruce Lee."

• Last year (2004) the US Library of Congress selected Enter the Dragon, along with 245 other films, for the National Film Registry. Read the full article.

• Bosnians to build a monument to Bruce Lee - "Lee is a true international hero and is a hero to all ethnicities in Bosnia and that's why we picked him". Hope it does some good.

• Bruce won a British Emma (ethnic multicultural media award) on May 24. Shannon accepted the "Legend" award on his behalf. Read more about the award.

• The Green Hornet film is back on the cards with Kevin Smith attached as director, and Jake Gyllenhaal as Britt Reid.

• Joe Lewis has written a new book called How to Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System. The book includes chapters by Mike Stone, Bob Wall, Danny Inosanto, Ted Wong, John Korab, Jhoon Rhee, and Joe Hyams. Click here for more details and to buy the book.

• Bruce Lee Collectors Exhibit 2003 ran from June 26th through December 2003, in Seattle's international district.

• Brandon-related news: a fourth Crow film is going to be made. Read more ...

• Bruce's friend, actor James Coburn, died on November 18, 2003 of a heart attack at the age of 74. He won an Oscar in 1999 for his brilliant portrayal of Pop in Affliction, and starred in classics such as The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven. He will be missed. Read the obituary here.

• Benjamin Turnbull @ Clapham Art Gallery - 12 November – 7 December (London)
  "By placing familiar figures such as Superman, Bruce Lee or Dirty Harry within a framework informed by his own collected junk and memorabilia, Turnbull has created a personalised fusion of fictional character, bubble gum card and real-life Magnum Force board game (for ages twenty-one up only!).

  ... In effect Turnbull has created an overwhelming collection of works that reach beyond their original source matter. He has transferred his cult icons across mediums and consumed them within his own ideology. A startling representation of the contemporary heroic remains."

• Bruce wins the Googlefight against Jackie Chan! Click here to see a screenshot. Or click here to play.

• The American A&E documentary, The Immortal Dragon, is new on DVD includes fantastic extras. Get it from Sendit.com ( - click here for a detailed list of what the DVD covers).

• Apparently Wong Kar Wai's new film Grand Master is going to be about wing chun grandmaster Yip Man, to be played by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. He will train under Yip's son, Yip Yun. The story will include Yip's student, young Bruce Lee. Cool!

• Some Brandon news for a change: Brandon's Harley Davidson motorbike was up for sale on EBay in 2002. Only $15 000 too. The auction ended without the reserve being met.

• The Bruce Lee museum in Guangdong is doing very well. More ...

• The Orphan (1960), starring Bruce in his last role before he left for the US the first time, was shown - free of charge and subtitled in Korean - at the International Federation of Film Archives' Asian Film Festival in 2002. The organisation held its 58th congress in the city.

• Virgin Atlantic has hired former Bruce student James DeMile to teach cabin crew kung fu. More ...

• A Bruce Lee museum has been opened in China's Guangdong province; both Bruce's father and grandfather were born there. Nothing yet in Hong Kong, of course. More ...

• Universal Interactive, Inc. plans to release an action-adventure title, Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon inspired by the legendary martial artist Bruce Lee for the Xbox^TM video game system from Microsoft in third quarter 2002. The plot concerns Bruce battling "multiple enemies to rescue his kidnapped father and retrieve the mystical Golden Relic, keeper of ancient martial arts secrets". Read the full article.

  GameSpot has an interview with production assistant Justin Lees as well as cool screenshots. The game looks fabulous!

• Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Fame and Trade Show & Expo took place Jan. 18 & 19, 2002. Bob Wall (Enter the Dragon, Fist of Fury) presented one of the seminars. WorldBlackbelt.com had a booth - Chuck Norris and Wall are some of the founding members of what they call the world's first international martial arts community.

• In FilmFour.com's survey of the 100 most popular film stars Bruce clocks in at #40, beating the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves. Old pal Steve Mcqueen is #17. The other Hong Kong stars who made the list are Jackie Chan (#56) and Chow Yun Fat (#80).

• Bruce is to appear in a new movie: "a $50 million movie [Dragon Warrior] that recreates the martial arts star on film using digital, computer-generated images (CGI) and new voice technology". (Never mind that the reporter thinks Bruce was a "kickboxer" who died of "a brain hemorrhage".) Below are links to two tests the company (Korean Shincine Communications) created a year ago. They look fabulous! The project is expected to take three to four years.

  Test 1 (no sound)
  Test 2: "In Cantonese, 'jeet kune do', the way of the intercepting fist"

• I know where Bruce Lee lives - mix your own kung fu sights, sounds and music with bits from Bruce Lee and kung fu movies using the "Ultrainteractive Kung Fu Remixer"

• You can play the remake of the classic Commodore 64 Bruce Lee game on your PC now. (The site has some screenshots as well.) The same game is available at ClassicGaming.com - you need an emulator though.

• Hong Kong Legends released a restored version of Golden Harvest's Game of Death on Region 2 DVD in October. By all accounts a DVD to own, with some of Bruce's original scenes restored to the film. Click here for more info and to order.

• Linda Lee Cadwell has called on the Hong Kong government to erect a permanent memorial for Bruce in the former colony. So far the only Bruce Lee landmark in Hong Kong was Jon Benn's Bruce Lee Cafe at The Rickshaw which has since closed. It existed for 3 years, and finally failed due to lack of local support. How is it that Bruce Lee's Chinese hometown makes no official effort to commemorate him? Bad show.

• Hong Kong hosted the Bruce Lee Expo 2000. It was very well attended, lasting for 10 days. On Nov. 27th there was a 60th birthday tribute to the Master. It's hard to imagine Bruce as a 60-year old!

• The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco showed Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey - John Little's new Bruce documentary - on Sunday, October 22, 2000. The documentary includes 34 minutes of original Game of Death footage edited into a film. This was the first time the world saw at least part of the film as Bruce intended it to be. For more information visit the Chinese Culture Center. The premiere formed part of a Little Dragon Celebration.

• Time chose Bruce as one of

  Twenty people who articulate the longings of the last 100 years [i.e. the twentieth century], exemplifying courage, selflessness, exuberance, superhuman ability and amazing grace.

  Read the article on their site or locally.