re trying to kick my ass," Lee said last year (Goodell 71).
This may have contributed to his difficulties with school--he dropped out twice before finally graduating from high school, and he then studied drama at Emerson College in Boston before taking acting lessons in Manhattan.
The boy had been confused about his own identity, given the way he lived in the shadow of his father. He, his mother, and his sister had moved to Los Angeles soon after his father's death in 1973. His mother took him for martial arts lessons when he was 9, and when he saw a picture of his father on the wall he started to cry and ran from the room. One of his teachers from the private Chadwick School in Palos Verdes states that for a long time the
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