The Mysteroius Death of Bruce Lee

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Bob Wall interview

Bob Wall: ......for ten years until he died in 1973 and I found Bruce to be the real deal. Bruce wasn't afraid of challenges. He was a very bright exciting guy you know , and its funny, because he got into a little group of Joe Lewis and Chuck Norris, Mike Stone, a lot of us that were world champions. There were four of us and we lived in L.A. and we got together all the time, and there were a lot of other guys that were at our level and a lot of them had black belts. We had a lot of guys that worked out with us; boxers, wrestlers, street fighters, Thai fighters, juijitsu guys, you know and we were sharing out knowledge. Two time judo national champion, Gene LeBell, a real tough old man, later on, Gene was one of the few guy that Bruce would take lessons from.

JB: Whoa!

Bob Wall: Gene LeBell is former world heavyweight wresting champion, a two-time champion, I mean he' a phenomenal man. Never lost a fight in his life.....

Bob Wall: People would ask 'How did you wound up being in 3 out of his 5 films?' and i say well i didn't have any say so in the first two , but in the third, fourth, and fifth film which i did, he said 'you know I really like to make contact, i want to make the fights scense real, he wanted to hit me, really hard, and I said 'Go for it, I'm a professional' and so he did, like that side kick in ETD, we did several times, about the sixth or seventh time,he hit me so hard the thrust broke one of the guy's arms behind me ....

JB: Yeah I read about that

Bob Wall: So the bottom line was he hit real hard, he liked to hit and I liked to get hit ....

JB: Did Bruce want you to be in the original game of death?

Bob Wall: I was in the original film.

JB: Really? In '73?

Bob Wall: In '73.

JB: Really??!!!

Bob Wall: Sure, the bottom line is that when we were doing the original story, it was like Hercules and the 7 doors but here, there was a 7 floor building, each floor had a bigger, meaner, monster and I was on level 5, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was on level 7 ....

JB: Oh Gosh!

Bob Wall: Part of the fight scene in the locker room is Bruce lee and I from that fifth floor and part of it is real Kareem Abdul Jabbar and part of it is a stand in because they changed the script. Thats why when you see the great KAA fight scene, Bruce is so heavily out of wind, there is no explanation for it because in the original he had come up 7 flights and fought 6 monsters. And in this one (GOD'78) they didn't have it that way.

JB: Are you serious?

Bob Wall: And so they used Danny Inosanto was in the real one, and they came back in '77 and shot more scenes with me, all the scenes with the doctor are all new scenes but that's without Bruce. In the locker scene, part of it is with the real bruce and part of it is not.

JB: Really??!!

Bob Wall: Yep.

JB: Geez, I didn't know that.

Bob Wall: As matter of fact they had 3 guys to play Bruce, one Chinese guy gave the English dialogue and he didn't do any martial arts so he did the dialogue scenes , another guy did all the stunts except the martial arts he did all the motorcycles and all those crashes but he didn't speak English and then they had a Korean guy who did the fight scenes and he could not hold his leg up and remember that scene where I get kicked five times...

JB: Yeah yeah...

Bob Wall: ...it was me kicking me!

JB: Oh really?!

Bob Wall: Yeah because he couldn't hold his leg up . What we did was shot across my hip to my leg and I went whap, whap whap whap whap ! And then I turned around and went "Uh uh uh uh uh uh!" So it's me kicking me in the locker.

JB: Oh man.

Bob Wall: And we just cut it together.

JB: That's crazy!

Bob Wall: Sammo Hung who's now starring in 'Martial Law' , he's the guy i beat up in GOD.

JB: Yeah.

Bob Wall: So he's the guy that set up the fight scene together when i got back. What i told him in the beginning when they called me about GOD was 'Oh no , not Bob Clouse!' he's the worst director in the world. I told Sammo 'He'll ruin all your fight scenes' and sure enough they were all lousy so they called me back , i left there in october of '77, and they called me back in december saying you have to reshoot the fight scenes and i said the only way i'm coming back is if in the contract which i have it says 'Bob Clouse is not allowed in the country! And then i'll do the fight scenes, get me Sammo and all these guys and i'll direct them . So i went back and shot all the locker room stuff and all the stuff of me beating up Sammo in the ring. I directed all that.

JB: Wow, really.

Bob Wall: Sammo and I. The reality is that Bob Clouse is an idiot and fortunately for the world he can't make anymore movies.

JB: Did you realize they were going to do a lot of awful things to do this movie like the cardboard cut in and all that lousy stuff?

Bob Wall: Well again the problem is Bob Clouse. Isnt' it amazing that everbody knows all this stupid stuff that was done but this is the 'brilliant' director of ETD . So how come he was 'brilliant' with ETD and then do this ****.

JB: Because Bruce directed ETD.

Bob Wall: The bottom line is Bruce at that point was dead and I was no longer doing it for Bruce and they were stuck with me because i was already in the original. Why do you think they had me back? They couldn't replace me. They replaced Bruce but if we would have had a good director, there was plenty of footage to make a good film. The bottom line is its a good film , its not a horrible film, there's a lot of stupid thing in it but how do you argue with critics who come out saying its horrible and it goes on to make $200 million. The fact is Bruce was in it.

JB: I heard they are going to release all the footage Bruce filmed.

Bob Wall: Well Raymond Chow has sold everything now so I don't know what will happen.

JB: Kinda sucks. Geez. What about Way of the Dragon? What was it like on the set?

Bob Wall: Well that was the film we did, you know Chuck Norris and I with bruce and it was great fun, we had a ball . It was the first HK film filmed in a foreign location , We spent 3 weeks in Rome and when we got the Colesium was closed . My wife Lilian knew a few connections and got him in there.

JB: Right on!

Bob Wall: Nobody had filmed in there for years and nobody has filmed in there since.

JB: I fell in love with her on the screen. Wow this is interesting. Okay, how about all these rumors about people on the bruce lee sets challenging him you know like on ETD did you ever witness any of this, is there anything on film?

Bob Wall: Well yeah yeah i saw bruce beat up a couple of people . There weren't a lot of challenges . There's a lot of people who 'talk' like Steven Seagal....

JB: Oooh i have to ask you about him.

Bob Wall: The main incident was a guy on the wall speaking in cantonese who was basically saying 'you're not a martial artist you're just an actor and bruce said 'oh really. Come on down and show me what you got' and the guy goes down there and bruce was just playing around with him and the guy was trying to take his head off and bruce realized, i know bruce real well , i saw his whole face change cause this guy was really trying to hurt him and bruce just then kick the **** out of him , rammed him to the wall, armlocked him smacked him 3 or 4 times on the face and the guy just started going 'I quit I quit I quit' Bruce smacked him a few more times . The guy couldn't move at all . And then Bruce told him 'Not bad for an actor'. and the guy then bowed to him.

JB: (laughs hard)

Bob Wall: That's teh difference between Seagal and Bruce . Seagal would 've fired him but bruce just let him fly back on the wall. But he let him know on no uncertain terms that they were totally mismatched you see Bruce was a world class martial artist and there are a lot of Black Belts walking around think there's no difference between a world class and a black belt . But there is a big difference . Bruce was the real deal. I remember one time when chuck and I came to HK from Rome there were headlines when we got there in all the papers basically saying the whan bang what's his name was challenging Chuck Norris . Bruce said awww forget it , i get these all the time, you knock down 2 , 4 more come up, you knock 4 down, 8 more come up just ignore it but Chuck was very upset about it and chuck doesn't back down from anybody, talk about an authentic world champion and he doesn't take that kind of stuff. But they didn't mention anything about me so I told chuck dont' worry about it and so I said "I'm Chuck' student i accept the challenge but a couple of little things Were going to be on Enjoy yourself tonight , (a show in HK that was kind've like johnny carson,) Lets have a death match with no rules . I'm going to kill all the challengers on live tv . Come on over to Enjoy yourself, i'm going to let you hit me first and then i'm going to kill you . And anybody that doesn't show up is a chicken! So all challenges, anywhere, come on over, no tricks no hogwash , it'll be just you and me, we're going to get out there and we're gonna go for it!" So we got there and there's thousands and thousands of people around and we go on and all of the sudden there is just silence. All these 'mouths' didn't want to step up.

JB: (Laughs)

Bob Wall: So then it was embarrassing because we thought we would have at least 3 or 4 dead bodies with us and all of the sudden all the 'talkers' didn't want to walk! So they just asked Chuck and I to do a demonstration but Chuck was still steamed up and he just whacked the **** out of me all over the stage. In fact, we didn't realize we were on a platform , with black curtains all around it, when in the end of the demo, he did a jump spinning back kick to me, and all of the sudden, I realize I'm flying off the stage! I'm looking down and there's nothing for thirteen feet but steel frames . I'm starting to fall and all of the sudden Chuck snatches me! How he did it, I still don't know. I was able to hang on and he pulled me back up. As he did, the cameras zoomed up and showed the welts all over my chest and everybody went 'oooooohhhhh!'. So after that my name in Chinese after that was "Oooohh Robertt", Chuck's was Lo Li Sing, and of course Bruce's was Lee Siu Loong. So everywhere we went, everbody went 'Lo Li Sing, Lo Li Sing' and 'Ooooh Robert. Tough man, tough man (said with a fake Chinese accent).

JB: Gosh, is this all on film?

Bob Wall: Oh sure. Somebody's got it.

JB: You don't have a copy yourself?

Bob Wall: Noooo.

JB: You don't have a copy yourself?

Bob Wall: Noooo.

JB: Why not?!

Bob Wall: You know at the time, to us, we didn't understand these young fighters, you don't think when you're a young world champion that, everything is years out there, so sure, now we're smart, and now I'd love to have a copy of it. Somebody's got it out there.

JB: Yeah somebody's going to make money of it one of these days!

Bob Wall: The only film I know of that was shot of Bruce Lee was shot by Ahna Capri, on the set of ETD. In it we sparred for about 10 minutes.

JB: Oh really? This hasn't been released to the public, I take it?

Bob Wall: Well she's got a problem. I had offered her a pretty good chunk of money so that Freddy Weintraub could put it in "Curse of the Dragon" and she turned him down. But she can't sell because she has to have releases. She can sell it to a private collector but she want 65 grand for it. Its not worth 65 grand. Its about 12 minutes of film and about 5 minutes of Bruce , us sparring....

JB: So you have to put it into some kind of documentary...

Bob Wall: Well, I'm in the film, I have to sign a release. Am I going to sign one for free? Is Warner Bros going to sign one for free? It was shot on a Warner Bros. set. Is Bruce Lee's widow going to sign one for free?Is Freddy Weintraub going to sign one for free? And all the people in it? You can't just go out and sell stuff. So she's got a private film that she can only view privately.

JB: That sucks!

Bob Wall: I tried to get it and I had her appeal. They would have given her a nice chunk of change and she wouldn't go for it.

JB: Aww man!!!

Bob Wall: She filmed it in '73 and still hasn't been able to sell it. If she ever does sell it and whoever buys it will be sued. So it's unfortunate. The same thing applies to all the other stuff we did. Nobody can sell the films of Chuck and I doing the demo and my doing the challenge, without my release. I'm not going to let someone earn money off me for free! So the odds are it will never get sold. A collector might wind up with it and they can show it privately. But if he's ever charges a dime .....

JB: Hmmm....while on ETD did Bruce ever talk about his next projects , you know, with you?

Bob Wall: As matter of fact, the last time I saw him , you know he died on July 20, 1973, and in May of '73, he passed out , almost died, so he was concerned about it. Hong Kong doctors couldn't tell him what was wrong and so he came to Beverly Hills from June 1st til June 8th for a physical. I used to fly him all his protein so I saw him on June 1st , I had lunch with him , and then I saw him the day before he left, and Bruce was excited saying "They say I got a body of an 18-year old " But at that time, they didn't know about MRIs for brain tissue, because when Bruce died, he had the brain tissue of a 90-year old! Obviously he died at least its clear to me, of an anuerysm , caused by taking , he had hurt his back in 1970, these tablets of equagesic, which is a painkiller common to aspirin, so [folks at points, things were extremely difficult to hear] he was taking this every six months, without any reaction, but as...(????) Bruce kept taking more and more , it caused the swelling in his brain, but he didn't realize that and his doctors didn't know that.

JB: Geez.

Bob Wall: But in any event, I saw him three times that week , and its a shame he didn't see how the film did, but one of the things he talked about , to answer your question, his fifth film was going to be with Carlo Ponti , who's still alive and married to Sophia Loren, and Bruce said "Hey Bob you get to be a good guy in the next one! " The script was to have Bruce play a CIA type of guy and international drug terrorist and dealers and I was going to be a CIA agent coming to help him out.

JB: Sidekick.

Bob Wall: Yep.

JB: Wow!

Bob Wall: I would've been a good guy in that one. We were just about a month away from signing a contract. It was going to be shot in Rome.

JB: Oh gosh. Was there a title for this?

Bob Wall: No. There was a working title and it was, uh , 'Drug Terror'.

JB: Ha ha. How about Mike Stone, do you still keep in touch with him?

Bob Wall: No I haven't seen Mike for years. He got married to a Filipina girl.

JB: Oh really, I'm Filipino. Okay I want to ask you some really , I mean you don't have to answer them, these are for the fans, they really want to know. I don't know if you're familiar with a book called 'Unsettled Matters'.

Bob Wall: No. JB: It was written by Tom Bleecker who is Linda Lee's ex-husband , they got a divorce....

Bob Wall: Oh yeah, can you send me a copy of it?

JB: I have a copy right here. I can get you a copy sure.

Bob Wall: I'd love to see because it's stuff like that that I don't hear, never see it...

JB: It's a really independent book, like almost underground .

Bob Wall: Yeah if you can get me a copy of it I'd really appreciate it.

JB: Yeah sure. Anyway, its a book about the flaws of Bruce Lee.

Bob Wall: He talks about Bruce Lee's flaws?

JB: Yeah.

Bob Wall: Ho ho. That's got to be interesting.

JB: I mean I know its all about money but I just want to run down some of the stuff with you.

Bob Wall: Okay.

JB: Um....Steroids and Bruce. Do they go together?

Bob Wall: No.

JB: No.

Bob Wall: Bruce was very anti-drug as matter of fact, let me tell you a story . When we rapped on 'Return of the Dragon' when we were going back to Hong Kong, we had a running debate because I love wine and still do. I got Bruce to try some Italian stuff and he didn't like it. But the running thing was he liked marijuana and I didn't . He said 'How can you not like it if you've never tried it?' and I said I don't like the contents. Its not for me and I didn't want to smoke it, I've never smoked. He said 'Well I don't like to smoke either but its a great way to relax'. Bruce was a very nervous guy. But in '72 he got the concept from.....to bake hashish in cookies and that became Bruce's new way to relax. He was a very intense guy. That's the only drug he ever used. He hurt his back and they told him he'd never walk again, in 1970 lifting weights, and he started taking equagesic tablets. Other than those two, Bruce never took drugs. And certainly, he would have never taken steroids. His whole thing was these hashish cookies that he didn't have to smoke it. There was also a big article in '72 in Playboy magazine that he kept showing me at the time that there was a relationship established between wine and marijuana . I didn't buy it but the bottom line is , he's(Bleecker) entitled to that opinion, but there is no way that he(Bruce) ever used steroids .

JB: No way.

Bob Wall: No way, bull****. The problem is people like Bleecker never worked hard in their life and don't know what hard work is. But you know what? When I graduated from high school I was 5'7'' and weighed 133 lbs. My normal weight now is 182 and I'm 6'1". I went up to 202 lbs for ETD because the character was supposed to be 6'6" so I went up to be the most menancing character I could. Even the way I cut the beard was designed, I have a narrow face, to widen my face...

JB: Yeah I noticed.

Bob Wall: So that's all part of the job to create a character, including the scar...

JB: Yeah it worked ! You looked totally different than in WOTD or GOD.

Bob Wall: Yeah exactly, you know I laugh when people say how great of an actor I was but the reality is I created a role to become a classic killer.

JB: Yeah, definitely.

Bob Wall: But you know Bruce was one of those rare people who worked extremely hard to the most of anyone's imagination. I never in my life saw anyone work out harder than Bruce. Chuck Norris worked out as hard, Joe Lewis worked out as hard, there were a few people, but darn few. So that's just plain hogwash about Bruce using steroids cause he was much too wise and he never touched steroids. And if he had, c'mon, at his peak he weighed 150 lbs at 5'7", if he had been using steroids he would've be 190 lbs. So that's hogwash. So what's the next hogwash?

JB: (laughs) Next hogwash is.... did Bruce ever cheat on his wife , you know, did he ever have any sexual affairs with any of his leading actresses? This is just stuff I'm reading from the book to you.

Bob Wall: Well there's a lot of rumors about that stuff. I was never with Bruce when he was with any girl but I can tell you I was aroung Betty Ting Pei, Nora Miao, and there was none of that stuff going on around us, but all I can tell you is .....he loooved his wife. Linda Lee , for my money, was one of the best wives I've ever seen in my life. She was a fabulous wife to Bruce. I had several conversations with him about how much he loved her and he would never do anything to risk losing her and the fact is that woman loved him, still I think she loves him, beyond the grave. She married another Bruce. Her current husband is Bruce (Cadwell). But the reality is she's a classy bright woman, who took great care of him , was very sexual with him was very womanly with him and she was probably more fluent in Cantonese than Bruce was. She really took it seriously about being his wife. I can't imagine... look, you know what, when you're an actor like Bruce and you have a million women attracted to him and you're taking pictures with actresses all the time, so it's very easy.....I don't know if you remember in high school you know like it was once thought that anyone wearing a yellow sweater was a hooker so if you saw 'Mary' wearing a yellow sweater she's a hooker...so the reality is that on the sets Bruce was very friendly to everyone , he was a charming guy and I can't say for sure because I don't know but I can tell you my opinion is no.

JB: No, okay. Right on.

Bob Wall: You know I've been married for 34 years to the greatest woman in the world and I know Bruce felt about Linda like I do about my wife. And you know what? If Bruce had cheated had her and Linda had known about it, she would've divorced him.

JB: Yeah.

Bob Wall: And she didn't. Hogwash number 2 as far as I'm concerned.

JB: Ha ha. That's all the 'hogwash' questions. But where were you the night Bruce Lee died, what was your reaction?

Bob Wall: Well, it was daytime when Linda called and I was doing a film called 'Black Belt Jones' by Freddy Weintraub and we were up in Mount Marriott College when I got the call from Linda and she asked for Freddy and I and said 'Bruce died' and right away my first thought was 'How can this be? He was going to live to be a hundred. He was so vital'. He took such great care of himself, great diet, great exercise, he was in phenomenal shape, stretching all the time, and so when it sunk in, I asked Linda if he died in a car accident and she said no .

JB: Geez.

Bob Wall: You see Bruce was the worst driver on the planet and if he would've died of anything, I thought it would've been in a car accident. He was a terrible, terrible driver. It was so amazing that he was the most brilliant athlete but was a terrible driver because he never paid attention to what he was doing. His mind was always going a million miles a minute. So that's where I was, Mount Marriott College, on July 20, 1973, shooting a film called 'Black Belt Jones'. I'll never forget it.

JB: Yeah. So is 'Curse of the Dragon II' ever going to come out? Are you going to produce it?

Bob Wall: Well we actually gathered 44 hours and went through it and took an hour and a half for 'Curse of the Dragon' and I very much want to do a sequel because there is so much great stuff left but Freddy feels we haven't yet hit on the concept so it's really ....what I'm looking for is people like yourself ...what would they like to see... what should the makeup of the film be.... see my concept was we going into the making of WOTD, ETD, GOD, and 'Curse of the Dragon', we go into the back stuff, about how that happened, how this happened, why we did it this way, recreating how Bruce got cut, all of this ....

JB: Yeah that would be great!

Bob Wall: ...but Freddy doesnt think that's interesting but I do.

JB: Really?

Bob Wall: I've gotten hundred and hundreds of fan letters. Today, I average 150 fan letters a month. Of course a lot of them start off "Hi Mr.Wall , I'm a great fan of yours and I'm a fan of Bruce Lee " and I know they really want to know more about Bruce than me so I understand so I answer everyone back and I work my butt off spending a fortune , I don't have a studio paying for all this, nobody ever bothers to send me 10 bucks to pay for the photo. I pay for the photo , I take the time to write the letters, I answer, I autograph, seal it in the evelope, and send it out, but never have I had anyone ever say 'Hey this probably costs money!' But in any event several years ago I got smart. I was out on tour when a collector would come up to me for an autograph and I said 'What do you got for me? 'What do you mean?' he said. I said 'What's in it for me?' and it's amazing, I now have the greatest collection on the planet , books, magazines, so on, things people never even heard of, but it's by asking that I get . So what I would love is for a bunch of fans to write to tell me what they want so that way we can have the impetus. It's going to happen . With 'COTD', we all had a concept, we all agreed on it and we all went for it. The only thing pissing me was I did all the interviews except for (Albert) Goldman and George Tan. They're both weasels and George Tan is the biggest weasel of all time! So I wouldn't interview those guys but everyone else I did the off-camera interview , Kareem, Chuck, James Coburn, and on and on and on. I interviewed everybody. But at any rate, it's a matter of us agreeing on what the fans want to see and I think my concept is right on.

JB: Yeah it is. Dead on.

Bob Wall: Maybe you can get a list from fans of the top 100 questions fans want to know the answer to. We're going to do it. We got releases on it. It's so simple to put it together. We spent over a year doing COTD. You've seen that right?

JB: Yeah.

Bob Wall: What did you think of it?

JB: It was great. It was good. I loved it.

Bob Wall: The whole film was pretty well done. My idea was, I thought 'Dragon:The Bruce Lee Story' was so awful ....

JB: Oh yeah, yeah...

Bob Wall: The whole idea of metal monsters chasing him and all his whining and crying with his back broken , all that never happened , I mean I'm going "Come on!" The real Bruce Lee was much more exciting than that film . So that was the impetus for us doing COTD, because its all truth and it's what his friends thought of him. JB: Yeah you guys have definitely got to do another one, it was really interesting.

JB: Yeah you guys have definitely got to do another one, it was really interesting.

Bob Wall: And it made quite a bit of a fortune. So anyway that's what we are looking for. What do the fans want?

JB: You guys should get a website going or something.

Bob Wall: It'll get done. I'm winding down my real estate career and I've got an internet company so I'll probably get something going like that.

JB: Yeah. Man, you just do everything.

Bob Wall: Come on, let's do lunch.

JB: Are you still a tough guy.

Bob Wall: Well I don't know if I'm a tough guy but lets just say nobody has ever beaten me up. I consider myself an 'educator'. And I 'educate' someone about every 4 or 5 months whether it be a robber, a criminal, when I see a criminal I adjust them radically. I'm 59 years old and I train, quite a bit in arm locks, dead locks, and chokes. So I'm able to alter the attitudes of people. One of my goals is to live to be a hundred.

JB: Just some quick easy questions just for my personal knowledge. Which Bruce Lee film is your favorite?

Bob Wall: My favorite is ETD. And my second favorite is GOD.

JB: Oh really.

Bob Wall: The reason being because , having done it with the worst director on the planet ,it could have been great the fact is that without Raymond Chow, putting up the money doing it, there was nuggets in there, it was like going through **** to get nuggets, and the reality is , I know what it could've been, knowing what we were able to do in spite of that idiot (Clouse), it was all the obstacles , imagine if Bruce was alive, what we could have done with that film but you have a dead hero and an idiot director. So I think its not given the credit it deserves but the fact is it's one of the highest grossing martial arts films, it outgrossed all the 'Karate Kid' films .

JB: Cool. Cool deal.

Bob Wall: And on the other side, I certainly liked WOTD because it was filmed as a comedy and while its not the greatest film in the world, but it can play side by side with GOD, because there's nuggets in WOTD just like in GOD but I liked GOD better.

JB: Any other Bruce Lee projects coming out that you know of?

Bob Wall: I wanted to do...I mean, I have probably about a million dollars worth of Bruce Lee memoribilia , letters he's written me, tremendous amounts of books , some articles of clothing he wore on WOTD, a couple of pairs of his nunchuks, I have taped recordings, I have film of Bruce teaching Steve McQueen and James Coburn. I have like 2 hours of that stuff of Bruce instructing them. I have footage of Bruce kicking the 300 lb bag. But the best thing I have is the original uncut version of ETD from the original negatives. Warner Bros. had called and said 'Hey come over and get what you want. We're burning everything tomorrow.' I went over and started taking stuff, a little more , a little more, and they told me to just take the whole thing. I have all original stills from the movie. I have great still sets from WOTD and GOD. People have asked why haven't I shown this stuff....

JB: You should!

Bob Wall: I went to Vegas , the Imperial Palace, to have a show we had about 6000 ft so we started off with 1500 ft with Brandon and Bruce , we would have Bruce 'grow up' because I have 5 of his kid films . I have a film of him and his father when he was 5 years old. I have film of Bruce and Brandon when Brandon was five years old on a demo on HK television . I have so much great stuff. I would interacted them . Imperial Palace had bought two of Bruce's cars, his Mecedes Benz and the Green Hornet car so we were going to have a phenomenal thing, we went to several meetings, with Bruce's attorney (Marshall?) and we were getting ready to sign the contract, and Linda killed it . She didn't want to lose it to gambling. I have film of Bruce and Brandon when Brandon was five years old on a demo on HK television . I have so much great stuff. I would interacted them . Imperial Palace had bought two of Bruce's cars, his Mecedes Benz and the Green Hornet car so we were going to have a phenomenal thing, we went to several meetings, with teh Imperial Palace owner, with Bruce's attorney (Marshall?) and we were getting ready to sign the contract, and Linda killed it . She didn't want to lose it to gambling.

JB: Aww man!

Bob Wall: But I set up the Elvis Presley estate museum(?) and last year and it made $21 million. Dead heroes don't grow old. They continue to find a new generation that discovers them. And Bruce is one of those heroes. Tragically he died at 32 but he changed the film industry so I know it will be a success.

Excerpt from Bob Wall Interview by Jeff Bona (MPM) April 1999

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