Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee?
Somewhere, buried in a file of photos from a trip to the States is a photo of Rowan and Jackie Chan. OK, I lie. However, I have a photo of Rowan standing by Jackie Chan’s star on the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard. She picked his star to be photographed next to because she’s a fan of his movies. Not the ones he’s famous for but the cheesy American ones like The Tuxedo or The Medallion, in which he smiles a lot and speaks English in a particularly appealing fashion. The appeal is not the action, so I was somewhat surprised when Rowan started talking about Bruce Lee the other day.
Bruce Lee it seems is, or was, something of a unifying force in post-conflict Mostar, not that to our knowledge he ever visited the region. Nevertheless, what he represented resonated so much with the different sides, she read on the internet, that a life-size statue of the man himself was erected in the park here. It stood there until, six months after its installation, someone stole his nunchucks! All of this sounded so far-fetched it had to be investigated. Surely this was more based in hyper-active internet-imagination than reality. So today we took a trip to the park in search of an empty plinth. Unbelievably, after a couple of false starts we found the empty platform bearing the inscription ‘Bruce Lee’. You really can’t make this stuff up!
Bruce Lee it seems is, or was, something of a unifying force in post-conflict Mostar, not that to our knowledge he ever visited the region. Nevertheless, what he represented resonated so much with the different sides, she read on the internet, that a life-size statue of the man himself was erected in the park here. It stood there until, six months after its installation, someone stole his nunchucks! All of this sounded so far-fetched it had to be investigated. Surely this was more based in hyper-active internet-imagination than reality. So today we took a trip to the park in search of an empty plinth. Unbelievably, after a couple of false starts we found the empty platform bearing the inscription ‘Bruce Lee’. You really can’t make this stuff up!
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