Mostar is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina that was almost entirely destroyed during the 1992 to 1995 war. The Old Bridge, built by the Ottomans in 1566, was deliberately shelled and collapsed into the Neretva River in November 1993. The bridge was reconstructed and reopened in 2004, and its restoration became an international symbol…
The first Bruce Lee video game appeared in 1984, eleven years after his death, published by Datasoft for the Atari 8-bit family of computers and the Commodore 64. It was a platform game. You jumped on things, kicked enemies, collected lanterns, and climbed toward a final showdown. The character had a yellow tracksuit and a…
Brandon Lee was eight years old when his father died (the sudden loss explored in The Mystery of Bruce Lee). He grew up in Los Angeles with his mother Linda, his younger sister Shannon, and the peculiar inheritance of being Bruce Lee’s son: recognized everywhere, assessed constantly, given access that required performance to justify. He…
Before Bruce Lee, Hollywood had no template for an Asian lead who wasn’t a sidekick, a villain, or a joke. He built the template himself. The year was 1966. A television producer named William Dozier had just cast Bruce Lee as Kato in The Green Hornet, and someone at ABC decided to advertise the show…
A year-by-year account of Bruce Lee’s life from his birth in San Francisco in 1940 through his death in Hong Kong in 1973 and the posthumous publication of his work. Drawn from verified sources with notes on disputed dates.
Shannon Lee chairs the Bruce Lee Foundation, manages his commercial legacy, hosts a podcast, and has written a book on his philosophy. Her approach to her father’s legacy is deliberate: engagement with what he actually thought, not the mythology.
Bruce Lee argued for cross-disciplinary martial arts training in 1967. The first UFC was in 1993. The twenty-six year gap between when he said it and when competition confirmed it at scale tells you something about how far ahead he was.
Bruce Lee is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington, alongside his son Brandon. This complete guide covers how to get there, what to expect, and what else to see nearby.
On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong at the age of 32. The official cause of death was cerebral oedema – swelling of the brain – attributed to an allergic reaction to Equagesic, a painkiller containing meprobamate and aspirin. But the circumstances surrounding his death have been debated, analyzed, and theorized about…
Bruce Lee is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington – the city where he spent some of the most important years of his life (for directions, visiting etiquette, and hours, read our Lake View Cemetery visitor’s guide), opened his first martial arts school, and met his wife Linda. His grave has become one…