Maybe it's the only thing all the ethnic and religious factions who have been fighting each other for that chunk of real estate since the Dark Ages were finally able to agree on.
There's definitely a Lee statue in Hong Kong; I saw it there last year, and my long-suffering wife reluctantly took a photo of me posing in front of it!
ZITISTE, Serbia - In this sleepy farming village, residents talk of a new spirit of exaltation ever since a towering bronze and concrete statue of Rocky Balboa was erected in the village square, his boxing gloves raised in a heroic gesture of triumph.
But Rocky will soon have company in the region: Tarzan, Bruce Lee and a former Playboy model.
In a phenomenon that is either delighting or alarming cultural critics, monuments to icons of Hollywood and popular culture are sprouting across the Balkans, after almost a decade of bloodshed and vengeance that killed as many as 125,000 people in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
The noted Serbian visual artist Milica Tomic, for one, is concerned. She calls the statues “a dangerous joke in which history is being erased and replaced by Mickey Mouse.”
And in Cacak, southwest of Belgrade, plans are under way to build a statue of a former topless model, Samantha Fox, a Briton who recorded the hit song “Touch Me (I Want Your Body)” and who captured local imaginations when performing in the town. Officials boasted that the statue would be larger than Rocky, but so far the only sign of Ms. Fox’s likeness is an empty pedestal in a local art gallery, with the word “rumors” written on it…
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The New York Times, November 11, 2007
ZITISTE, Serbia - In this sleepy farming village, residents talk of a new
spirit of exaltation ever since a towering bronze and concrete statue of
Rocky Balboa was erected in the village square, his boxing gloves raised in
a heroic gesture of triumph.
But Rocky will soon have company in the region: Tarzan, Bruce Lee and a
former Playboy model.
In a phenomenon that is either delighting or alarming cultural critics,
monuments to icons of Hollywood and popular culture are sprouting across
the Balkans, after almost a decade of bloodshed and vengeance that killed
as many as 125,000 people in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
The noted Serbian visual artist Milica Tomic, for one, is concerned. She
calls the statues “a dangerous joke in which history is being erased and
replaced by Mickey Mouse.”
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I would like a world tour that takes you to celebrity statues. Freddie Mercury, Andy Capp, Popeye..
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of a former topless model, Samantha Fox, a Briton who recorded the hit song
“Touch Me (I Want Your Body)” and who captured local imaginations when
performing in the town. Officials boasted that the statue would be larger
than Rocky, but so far the only sign of Ms. Fox’s likeness is an empty
pedestal in a local art gallery, with the word “rumors” written on it…
Meanwhile:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Andy_Capp_Statue_-_geograph.org.uk_-_700196.jpg
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http://baron-waste.livejournal.com/2192815.html
“Eleven point four eight million views of
this video in two (2) days.
“You'll see why.”
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Kind of makes Hawkeye and Green Arrow a little more plausible.
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