That morning on Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance, only a few shops were open. It was mid- November 1971, 9:00 in the morning, and the air was unusually cold for Southern California. A grocery, a barber, a small tailor, and among them a little shop called Herukqi’s Martial Arts Supplies. Its display window slightly faded, its…
The tragedy of Steven Crane’s life when he married Lana Turner. There is a quote that Steven Crane never gave to a reporter, never put in a book, never said on record in any format across the 40 years after his marriage ended. But the people who knew him, the ones who…
Dick Van Djk reveals the six actors he hated the most. For 33 years, I loved a woman another man had broken. Not broken the way you drop a glass and it shatters. Broken the way you bend something so many times it forgets how to stand straight. He took six years of her…
Only 17 people knew that Chuck Norris was in the audience that night. The kickboxing champion in the ring didn’t know. The referees didn’t know. The organizers didn’t know. None of the 400 spectators could guess who the simply dressed man sitting quietly in the 14th row really was. That situation would change 8 seconds…
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Racing is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting. Those words spoken by Steve McQueen in Le Man perfectly capture the obsession that nearly destroyed him. This wasn’t just a movie. It was a man’s desperate attempt to bottle lightning to capture the raw terror and beauty of the world’s most dangerous…
Only 23 people knew that afternoon that Chuck Norris was in the dojo. The young champion who walked in through the door didn’t know. The students training thought he was in a meeting in the back room, but Chuck was there quietly watching and listening. And 9 seconds later, the arrogant young champion would receive…
The door to stage 9 opened and Chuck Norris stepped in carrying a gym bag over one shoulder. He was dressed simply in dark pants and a gray shirt, expecting nothing more than a routine conversation with Warner Brothers about a possible film role. What he did not…
Only 18 people in the arena that day knew who Chuck Norris was. The karate champion on the stage didn’t know. The tournament organizers didn’t know. The referees didn’t know either. Not a single one of the 650 spectators could guess who the plainly dressed, averagel-l lookinging man sitting quietly in the 14th row really…
A thug crushed Bruce Lee’s burger under his boot in front of Chuck Norris, then raised a chair to strike. In that instant, the whole bar realized they had picked the wrong two men to mess with that night. The two of them hadn’t shared a mat in years. Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee,…
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