Bruce Lee fans aim for Hong Kong statue

[robotic]

HONG KONG - Bruce Lee fans are urging the Hong Kong government to help pay for a bronze statue to mark the actor's 65th birthday in November.

The Bruce Lee Club is planning to erect an 8-foot-2-inch statue of the martial arts legend on the Avenue of Stars, which honors Hong Kong movie stars, said Hew Kuan-yau, a member of the club's committee.

Lee was born in the United States but moved to Hong Kong as a child. Most of his movies were shot and produced in Hong Kong. He died in 1973 at age 32.

His fans voted for the statue to represent a pose from his 1972 movie, "Fist of Fury." Plans call for unveiling the statue on Nov. 27.

Hew said the club has only raised half of the $155,000 needed for the statue's construction, installation, insurance and publicity, and he's appealing to the government for a donation.

"We are not asking them to pay for the total sum, but at least part of it," he said Thursday. "We want people to know about the legend of Bruce Lee."


read the article here; :wink: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050917/ap_en_mo/people_lee

[abc!]

Oddly enough they're buidling a statue of Bruce Lee in the Bosnian city of Mostar.

[Martino]

So it's still going ahead?

http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=18494&highlight=Bruce

[abc!]

So it's still going ahead?

http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=18494&highlight=Bruce

Good question. I heard this a month ago on NPR and thought it was a current event:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4845621

But according to your thread, it seems that it's at least a year old! Maybe they were confusing it with the HK statue story which broke around the same time as when I heard this on NPR.

[grimfan]

Oddly enough they're buidling a statue of Bruce Lee in the Bosnian city of Mostar.

I was about to bring that up. They believe that he represents cultural harmony.

[Faithless]

So it's still going ahead?

http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=18494&highlight=Bruce

Yep.

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=bruce-lee+statue+site%3Ayellowworld.org

Bruce Lee statue for Bosnian city
http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=18494

Yellowworld Forums - Bruce Lee statue - Mostar
http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=18650

[abc!]

Neither of your links confirm if the statue is currently still being built in Mostar. The first link is to an old non-updated thread that Martino already linked to (which you responded to!) and your second link goes no where.

[robotic]

upcoming news from hong kong:

HONG KONG - A weeklong festival will be held to celebrate the unveiling of a statue of Bruce Lee on Hong Kong's Avenue of Stars.

Lee's brother Robert Lee will preside over the Nov. 27 ceremony, Wong Yiu-keung, chairman of the Hong Kong-based Bruce Lee Club, said Monday.

The 6-foot-6-inch statue will feature the martial arts star with his torso bared and his hands spread in a fighting stance. The pose was selected in an online poll of Lee's fans.

Lee died of cerebral edema - swelling of the brain - on July 20, 1973. He was 32. His films include 1973's "Enter the Dragon," released after his death, and "Fists of Fury."

The Nov. 25-Dec. 1 festival, backed by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, also will include a fan gathering, tours of Lee-related sites and free showings of his movies at the Avenue of Stars, Hong Kong's equivalent of Hollywood's Walk of Fame, Wong said.

Lee would have been 65 on Nov. 27.

special announcement about the statue @ the bruce lee club (including pictures!) (http://www.wong.mytry.biz/vote.php)

[Faithless]

Neither of your links confirm if the statue is currently still being built in Mostar. The first link is to an old non-updated thread that Martino already linked to (which you responded to!) and your second link goes no where.
Maybe, the second link got merged into this one or the other one.

[Faithless]

And now a Bruce Lee statue at the University of Washington?

He's gonna have more statues than some founding fathers some day. :biggrin:

Students battle for Bruce Lee statue -- Martial arts expert went to Washington university in '60s (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/27/MNFTU4QUO.DTL)

Tomas Alex Tizon, Los Angeles Times | Thursday, December 27, 2007

When she closes her eyes, college sophomore Courtney Ioane can visualize the statue of Bruce Lee that she wants built on the University of Washington campus.

It is bronze and life-size - not so big that it dominates the area but substantial enough to be noticed. And the fighter would not be punching or kicking but sitting in a meditative pose.

"Bruce Lee was more than a martial artist," said Ioane, 20. "He also had an amazing philosophy of life. He's a cultural icon recognized all over the world - except on this campus," where Lee studied for three years in the early 1960s.

Ioane and 20 other UW students have collected more than 1,000 signatures - including almost all the members of the men's and women's basketball teams - as part of the effort to build a Bruce Lee monument.

The statue would begin to represent the diversity of cultures currently absent in the school's collection of public-art displays, Ioane said. Almost all the several dozen statues and busts on the sprawling 700-acre campus are of white men, including the school's namesake, George Washington.

Of the 28,570 undergraduates at UW, more than 35 percent are minorities. One in 4 students is Asian American. Ioane, from Spokane, is half-Samoan.

University officials have remained noncommittal on the project, and at least one spokesman questions whether Lee's accomplishments merit a permanent memorial on a college campus.
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[AngryABCGirl]

I would say that Bruce Lee is their most prominent alumni.