Bruce Lee: The Biography [Paperback]

Robert Clouse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1989

Finally, the truth can be told about Bruce Lee's remarkable life and tragic death. Close personal friend and director of Bruce's greatest movie, Robert Clouse, reveals his first-hand memories of Bruce and includes interviews with Bruce's family, friends and colleagues in order to tell us the true story of how Bruce livedand died. Also included are numerous photos, many never before made available to the public.

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About the Author

Robert Clouse directed Bruce Lee's most famous film, Enter the Dragon. During the making of this film, he became close personal friends with Bruce.

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My direct contact with Bruce Lee occurred between November 1972 and June 1973 when I started preproduction of the film Enter the Dragion and through the post-production period when Bruce came to the Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, Calif., to complete some dubbig of dialogue that had been poorly recorded in Hong Kong. Many of the people I interviewed for this book I had known from that time, but many others I met for the first time during research of the elusive Bruce Lee. My perceptions of Bruce were dented and bent from what I knew about him; others were destroyed. Piecing together the portrait is imprecise, but the attempt goes on.

Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: Unique Publications (January 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865681333
• ISBN-13: 978-0865681330
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent biography, December 20, 2002

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This review is from: Bruce Lee: The Biography (Paperback)

This is a very good biography. Most of the other books regarding Bruce's life are more into his films and don't get into much more than that. This book has very detailed accounts of his life. There is some great stuff in here about how Bruce and his Chinese friends would goad the English boys into fights when he was young (to test their skills). Also he staged all kinds of practical jokes on people! He had a great sense of humor! I was very happy to read about his trips to India (attempting to film The Silent Flute). Absolutely great stuff in here. Some very touching stories in here, too. He attempted to marry a Japanese girl several times, but it didnt' work out. She wasn't interested in marrying him. There is some very good stuff in here. They have some great pictures in here, too, but sometimes they spread them over two pages where it doesn't make sense to do that because the spine of the book is over his head or something, so I wish they would have done a better job laying out the pictures. I also would have liked to see the book in color, and I don't know why they put an artists drawing of him on the cover when there are so many excellent actual pictures of him. But that's ok the material here is very good.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good pictorial biography, September 1, 1998

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Chester Beeput "cjbeeps" (Trinidad & Tobago) - See all my reviews
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This book presents an excellent pictorial biography of Bruce Lee. It lacks detailed information on his life but compensates for this by presenting excellent pictures of Bruce in his daily life and in his screen endeavours.

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worse biography of anyone ever, November 24, 2001

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S. McDuffie (Pueblo, CO) - See all my reviews
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Is Robert Clouse capable of writing above the 8th grade level? After reading "The Making of Enter the Dragon" and then the first two-thirds of this one (I couldn't take anymore) I have my doubts.

He isn't a bad director. He IS a bad writer, unless he is a master sandbagger.

I have been a Bruce Lee fan for more than 20 years so I naturally thought I would love this book. I didn't. It was one of the few books that I was unable to finish. After 125 pages, I just couldn't bear to have my intelligence insulted any longer. Neither will you.

Buy this for your 12 year old nephew who watches Kung Fu theatre and who takes Tae Kwon Do lessons at the YMCA. He will love it.