MarinaFang. Aug 16, 2019, 03:45 PM EDT. NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has joined those speaking out against director Quentin Tarantino’s divisive portrayal of Bruce Lee in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” writing Friday that seeing the film turn the martial arts icon into a punchline was “disappointing” and “disturbing.”.
TomCruise, anti-imperialism and zero body-fat: Bruce Lee’s legacy 50 years after his death. Read more. and featured US basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Inosanto among its co-stars.Heis a Muslim college student, enrolling in the Fall of 2001. Simply, it is a story of a man trying to hide from the boy within him, just as all hell is about to break loose. The movie opens nationally on Friday, 2/11. The title is a play on a common mispronunciation of "Muslim."