Vol. 16, No. 8, $1.25
• “Analyzing something done in one style, [Bruce Lee] made it his own, then improved it,” Renardo Barden writes. “He got into his process and started simplifying. The more he simplified, the more he pared away at ideas and moves he judged dispensable or ‘phony.’”
• When Good Guys Wear Black is branded with an R rating, prompting Chuck Norris to fight back. Of course, he wins. The ratings board winds up changing the movie to PG.
• Marshall Ho’o retires as head of the National Tai Chi Chuan Association. Daniel Lee, who trained under Bruce Lee, replaces him.
• The International Olympic Committee says the 1980 Games in the Soviet Union will not include women’s judo. Why? Because the Soviets don’t have a female…
