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Re: Chuck Norris
Yeah, I think what happens sometimes is, no matter how influential the person was while alive, when they die people suddenly take notice of their work when maybe they would have ignored this otherwise.
This has been happening for ages (even before our current celebrity worshiping culture we live in today). Look at how artists paintings, sculptures, etc. suddenly go way up in value when the artist dies. Some of them like Rembrandt, Van Gogh didn't really even get appreciated very much while they were alive which I find sad somehow.
In the case of Bruce Lee I think he had reached a point where he was already very famous and influential. His film career aside, he created a martial art, wrote several books (I have read a couple which were good), and he was a pioneer in health & fitness. However, I think his untimely death brought him a level of immortality (I know that's an oxymoron, but what can you do?) that he might not have achieved until later. He was an amazing person, though, whose life has almost taken on mythic proportions today.
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