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Bruce Lee

1973 - Hong Kong (Golden Harvest studios, Kowloon)

Raymond has the morning's call sheet at the editing bay and the choreographer's apprentice is at the small stage with the third pickup's blocking, and I keep my hand on the storyboard because if Raymond sees the headache at the level of yesterday's storyboard he will postpone the third pickup to Friday, and the third pickup is the pickup Game of Death's nunchaku sequence requires before the Friday's stage call.

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Elvis Presley

1977 - Graceland

In the upstairs office at Graceland with the curtains drawn against the Memphis heat and Lisa Marie somewhere down in the house, I am setting my own account down on a yellow legal pad in the days before the tour opens in Portland, Maine on the seventeenth of August, still certain that the voice and the show will answer when I call them the way they always have, even as the body slows under me and the house closes in around the certainty.

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Pol Pot

1977 - a concealed leadership compound in Phnom Penh (K-1 or K-3, autumn 1977; the figure operates under the name Pol Pot through Angkar, without public identification)

A revolutionary operating under the concealed identity of Pol Pot reads the confession lists produced at S-21, treating names supplied under torture as administrative confirmation that the doctrine of category elimination must continue and that the party itself must be purged of the colleagues the manufactured confessions have just named.

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Golden Harvest Studios, Kowloon

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Concealed leadership compound, Phnom Penh

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Bruce Lee
1973 - Hong Kong (Golden Harvest studios, Kowloon)
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Raymond has the morning's call sheet at the editing bay and the choreographer's apprentice is at the small stage with the third pickup's blocking, and I keep my hand on the storyboard because if Raymond sees the headache at the level of yesterday's storyboard he will postpone the third pickup to Friday, and the third pickup is the pickup Game of Death's nunchaku sequence requires before the Friday's stage call.
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