| Bruce
Lee and William Cheung
My
brother in-law William Cheung was a close
friend of Bruce Lee in the early days in
Hong Kong. Following is a little
information about the early days with
William and Bruce.
William first met Bruce around 56 years
ago (1949). Bruce was already a child
star of the day. It was early one
evening on the 27th November, after William
had finished his homework, his Uncle took
him to a childs birthday party. The
child happened to be Lee Siu-Jung (Little
Dragon), Bruce Lee.
William was very excited about meeting a
child star in person, he had seen two of his
movies at that stage - one was "The
Beginning of Man". The apartment
was situated on the second floor of a large
building. They pressed the door bell
and eventually the housekeeper arrived to
open the gate at the bottom of the
stairs. On reaching the second floor
there were two more gates, one at the top of
the stairs and the other on the left of the
landing. William was very surprised at
such precautions. He laster found out
that all these gates were to delay the
police in case of a raid, as Bruce's father
was an opium consumer. In those days
opium smoking was very popular among the
Chinese people, especially the opera and
movie stars, Bruce's father at that time was
a very famous Chinese operatic commedian.
Two of Bruce's best childhood friends
were also at the party, Raymond Cheung, son
of a very famous film star and Unicorn, also
a child star. William was introduced
by his Uncle to Mr & Mrs Lee, who asked
Bruce to look after him. William
followed Bruce to another room where all the
kids wer playing and he took at good look at
the star. He found Bruce to be very
skinny and his facial complexion was
pale. He was an inch or two shorter
than William, but had very long arms.
His finger tips could reach his knees, when
he let his arms down by his
side.
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