PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Oct. 24, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- "What Bruce Lee had that made him a star, apart from his martial arts skills and passably good looks, was a joy of living." Such begins Robert Ebert's 1993 review of the motion picture "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story." A man who died well before his time, Lee brought martial arts to the masses.
The story of Lee's life, career and death has long been the subject of film and literature, but perhaps no other work so perfectly encapsulates the real Bruce Lee as well as author Norman Borine's "King Dragon" (now available from 1stBooks Library).
"King Dragon" is the real story of the man behind the legendary martial artist. Beginning with Lee's 1940 birth in a San Francisco hospital, King Dragon follows Lee back to his family's home in Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, Lee pursued various odd jobs, from fighter to actor. After a serious fight, Lee is sent back to the United States, where he is already a citizen.
It is from this quiet beginning that "King Dragon" takes the reader into Bruce Lee's world. Borine says, "Eventually, while giving lectures in philosophy, he met Linda. Following a story-book experience, they were married and moved to Oakland where he seriously followed up on the martial arts and was soon discovered by Ed Parker at the International Karate Tournament in Long Beach."
Finally discovered, Lee was on his way to the fame and fortune of which he had dreamed. It was only his sudden and untimely death that ended what was guaranteed to be a phenomenal Hollywood career. Shocked and saddened by Lee's untimely death, Borine knew that he needed to do something to immortalize the man, the myth and the legend.
On planet Earth, who is not aware of the amazing Martial Artist, Bruce Lee? But do you know him also as the reader, thinker, actor, writer, director, producer, artist, teacher, husband, father and spiritual guide? "King Dragon" reveals his totality!
Norman Borine was born in Salt Lake City, raised in Idaho, and then moved to Hollywood after graduating from high school and college. He soon became a Contract Dancer and Choreographer in 1943 at MGM, working with all of the truly great stars of musicals. Following these exciting years he was hired by NBC to choreograph a television show, FAITH OF OUR CHILDREN, starring Eleanor Powell, which ran for two years and won five Emmy Awards.
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