Pat Morita, better known as Mr. Miyagi from Karate Kid, passed away recently. http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/25/obit.morita.ap/index.html
I when I was younger, I used to think he was Bruce Lee, until one day my mom told me Bruce Lee died years before. I then asked her wasn't he the one who was in the Karate Kid. She then told me that was someone else. I never actually realized the dates the movies were produced to know he was not Bruce Lee. I will miss him...
... ... and that Kung-fu & Lee are Chinese, while Karate & Morita are Japanese. I'd be just as incensed if people mistook me for an American. :-D
i found out on the news in the morning, sad really, he was a good actor in many flicks he did, didnt know he was livign in vegas at the time.