It looks like Bruce Lee may be getting his own Graceland! We get wind of this glorious news from the dragon caves of Yahoo:
A developer who owns Bruce Lee’s old home in Hong Kong lobbied the government Thursday to turn the property into a museum. Yu Pang-lin met Thursday with Hong Kong’s commerce and economic development secretary about his plans for the two-story house, currently used as an hourly motel.
The 86-year-old developer-turned-philanthropist had put the property on sale to raise money for victims of the recent earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, but changed his mind after fans of the late martial-arts star expressed worries about the building’s possible destruction.
He’s willing to donate the property, where Lee lived in 1972 and ’73, and wants the Hong Kong government to set up a trust that will hold the property and spearhead efforts to plan and raise funds for the museum, said Michael Tien, a local politician who attended Thursday’s meeting.
Yu Pang-lin I salute thee!
This is fantastic news, I went to Hong Kong when I was 17 and would gladly go back. My next journey there will now (hopefully) have the Bruce Lee museum on the itinerary. Brruce Lee was an outstanding and legendary action star, taken from us far too early. He still had so much to do and teach.
The heart of Yu Pang-lin is as big as a house he is donating.
We will be sure to follow this story, and hopefully get our hands on pictures from inside the museum post completion.
The start of the past week was memorable with the discovery of the lost footage of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis; at the end of the week, we get the news of a Bruce Lee memorial museum and it is a movie news week that will be long remembered.
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I’ll go see Bruceleeland. I’ve always liked Bruce Lee.