Actor David Carradine Dead!!!
06-04-2009, 11:00 AM
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Doooood...he was a white guy playing an Azn Shoalin(sp) monk that travels from town to town in the Old West.
****ing brilliant!!
****ing brilliant!!
06-04-2009, 11:04 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35jES1kXz8Q
Elvis got rich off black music.. That's not brilliant.. It's a rip off.
Carradine got rich off an asian martial art turned tv show. (stolen from Bruce Lee) Could he even really do Kung FU? Should have been Bruce Lee.. Jeet Kun Do BABYYYYYYYY..
Elvis got rich off black music.. That's not brilliant.. It's a rip off.
Carradine got rich off an asian martial art turned tv show. (stolen from Bruce Lee) Could he even really do Kung FU? Should have been Bruce Lee.. Jeet Kun Do BABYYYYYYYY..
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06-04-2009, 11:12 AM
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Yeah, I always disliked that guy... Could never watch Kung Fu because he was white, and the fact that he stole Bruce Lee's role. Bleh, I didn't shed a tear, thats for sure.
06-04-2009, 12:04 PM
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I've seen a few biographies on him and apparently at the time of the TV series he didn't know a single thing about any martial arts.
06-04-2009, 01:53 PM
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From another article:
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Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s U.S. television show "Kung Fu," was found naked and hanging dead from a rope in the closet of his luxury Bangkok hotel room on Thursday, Thai police said.
06-04-2009, 02:11 PM
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Kung Fu carrodine coudnt do kung fu, Didnt know anything about martial arts, wasn't asian like his character was supposed to be, and there was no action (from what i saw in five episodes) in the series. People can change and the spiritual path david went on because of that show is remarkable. The guy had depth. It is a loss but the way he got his start almost offsets the loss. Eff it.
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06-04-2009, 02:16 PM
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Those backup singers that did the actual singing should have gotten the credit, but because they weren't that great looking the chose to put mili and vanilli up as front men even though they didn;t sing a word.
A bunch of total BS.
I hate Elvis too.
06-04-2009, 02:32 PM
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I don't believe Bruce Lee would have been nearly as good in the role, because his acting was mainly action movies where a lot of violence was included in the plot. I'm not sure that he would have been able to pull off a quiet, unassuming role as a monk who didn't resort to violence at every given opportunity.
06-04-2009, 02:34 PM
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I don't believe Bruce Lee would have been nearly as good in the role, because his acting was mainly action movies where a lot of violence was included in the plot. I'm not sure that he would have been able to pull off a quiet, unassuming role as a monk who didn't resort to violence at every given opportunity.
