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Opinion: Hope for Green Hornet Success Goes Back Four Decades |
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Friday, 14 January 2011 09:18 |
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It was short-lived and got pretty silly at the end but I loved the 1966 ABC TV series The Green Hornet.
I was too young to realize that Bruce Lee was practicing a fighting style that had a long and storied history or that he would later go on to become a cultural icon. But loved the Black Beauty (an Imperial Crown sedan), Green Hornet’s tricked out ride and the Hornet’s Sting and most of all the minimalist costume that eschewed gaudy tights, briefs and pointed cowls for an overcoat, suit, mask and porkpie hat. That’s a costume I could put together with just one quick raid of my Dad’s closet!
I may have known, back when I was six, that I wanted to be a journalist some day so the fact that Britt Reid (played by Van Williams) inherited a newspaper publishing empire and used it |
