[LibertyRocks]

Some of us girls, too... :)

RIP David... I thoroughly enjoyed watching Kung Fu with my Dad when I was young. About the only show he and I both liked...

[mikeus_maximus]

Well, I was a skinny, unathletic, awkward geek in junior high when Kung Fu came out. He was my hero. So, naturally, my sister loved to tease me about his interview in which he said he "was a dancer, not a fighter". When I later got into martial arts, I saw he was telling the truth. But in the early 70's, when MA was a new thing to this country, his hokey and slow "kung fu moves" seemed almost magical.

Footnote to that: The concept for the Kung Fu series-- a shaolin monk wandering the Old West-- was created by Bruce Lee, who saw himself in the starring role. But the studio thought he was "too Oriental" for American audiences, and cast David Carradine instead. I'm not sure Lee, with his bad accent and incredible speed and violence, would have made as interesting a character as Carradine's serene and benevolent monk.