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- <text id=93TT1403>
- <title>
- Apr. 12, 1993: Bird of Ill Omen
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- Bird of Ill Omen
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Bruce Lee's son Brandon dies mysteriously on a trouble-plagued
- set
- </p>
- <p> Actor Brandon Lee had hoped To Ride The Crow, his third
- significant Hollywood film, to stardom. Instead it was a bird
- of ill omen. A storm destroyed sets; a carpenter was nearly
- electrocuted. Then during Wednesday's filming, a gun that should
- have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through
- Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I
- don't know how it got in [the gun]," said The Crow's executive
- producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal.
- bullet.
- </p>
- <p> Lee, 28, who was to be married in April, was the son of
- martial-arts cult hero Bruce Lee, many of whose fans smelled
- mystery in his own sudden death from brain swelling in 1973.
- There may be solid ground for speculation about his son's
- demise.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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