Remembering Bruce Lee

Remembering Bruce Lee
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The Little Dragon
Cultural icon, martial-arts legend, movie superstar — Bruce Lee was all this and more. His meteoric rise to international fame was met with an equally tragic death at the age of 32. Born on Nov. 27, 1940, in Jackson Street Hospital in San Francisco's Chinatown, Lee would have celebrated his 70th birthday in 2010.

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