Chuck Norris Book:

Chuck Norris Reviews:
Lots of laughs
2009-02-02 - This featherweight biography of former karate champ and bad-movie king Chuck Norris boasts unintentional comedy on practically every page. There are Norris's signature veiled putdowns of late friend and co-star Bruce Lee, which say a lot more about his lingering insecurities than anything else. (Norris had difficulty understanding why "such a cult has grown up about [Lee] since his death", and noted that Lee "never fought professionally, but he was a good technician.") There is the great man's assessment of marijuana smokers. (Norris took his family to San Francisco's Tenderloin district to see the premiere of a film in which he played a bit part: "We get into the theater and people are smoking pot and all this...you know, there're a lot of perverts in there.") There's even a glowing endorsement of Ronald Reagan. ("What I like about Reagan is that he doesn't pussyfoot around. Like with Grenada...The guy may stick his foot in his mouth occasionally, but he says what he feels. If you don't like it, that's just tough." Wow. Talk about sticking your big, ugly foot in your big, stupid mouth.)
My heartiest laugh, however, was reserved for author Byron Coley, solely on the basis of the following passage: "Norris didn't really care if, as the Chicago Tribune maintained, 'the state of the martial-arts movie has been languishing ever since the death of Bruce Lee.' Let it languish! If a guy like the acrobatic Jackie Chan (sometimes called 'the Korean Burt Reynolds') wanted to be heir-apparent to the chop socky kingdom of Lee, let him."
Really? Jackie Chan is sometimes called "the Korean Burt Reynolds"? By whom? Can anyone think of a single example? I doubt it, because Jackie Chan is not Korean and Byron Coley likes to pull things out of his rear end. That Chuck Norris is one classy guy, though--no chop socky typecasting for him! He prefers to do more sophisticated films, heh heh heh.




Brilliant.
2006-05-18 - I am pleased to announce that Byron Coley's biography of Chuck Norris is still considered definitive.