A fantastic article on the legacy of Bruce Lee by Jeff Yang in his Asian Pop column.  He also talks about Justin Lin and his crew who are on a crusade to find the formula to success as Asian-American actors in Hollywood.

Here's an excerpt below but I suggest you read it all.

No one since Bruce has been Bruce, though many people have tried. Lesser men have aped his moves and look, and left nothing but an uneasy sense of fraud. Other stars -- equals, perhaps, in talent -- have arrived and carved out their place in history, but never displaced the Dragon from his singular niche. The gap he left in the pop continuum remains empty; the hole he left in Asian American culture remains unfilled. But perhaps the reason for that feeling of absence and loss is because the wrong questions are being asked, the wrong goal is being targeted. We don't need Bruce Lee, or, as some wags have dubbed him, "Kung Fu Jesus," to come again and rapture us out of Hollywood purgatory. We need to address the same problems he faced, and to face them as he might have, in our wishful dreams. As Lee himself famously said in "Enter the Dragon," "It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon: Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."

Bruce the superstar, the myth, the martial-arts messiah whose image is seared into everything we do -- he's the finger. So what's the way to the moon?

Justin Lin and his crew, his ever-expanding "family" of performers and creators, think they've found the way. They speak of the journey they're on, and the films they've done together -- "Finishing the Game" unites cast and crewmembers from each of Lin's previous films, underscoring the idea that each work is just a chapter in a larger story-and they talk about carving out a new way of making, distributing, marketing, and merchandising Asian American films.

"When we work in the Hollywood system, by default we don't get the marketing budget of a studio pic or even a typical Hollywood indie," says Fan. "And at the end of the day, unless you can really define an audience, an Asian American market, a crossover market, you can't continue to create these types of productions. So after 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' we hit the road for a couple of months. We went out into the countryside, talking to everyone, making ourselves available, bringing together this whole network of people who felt like they were a part of this thing. Who were a part of this thing. And that first weekend, we made history."

By mobilizing the grass roots, BLT scored average box-office per screen on its first weekend of $30,000 -- the highest per-screen average for Paramount Classics and MTV Films ever. "It was the first time Hollywood had really hard data, that Asian Americans exist and want to see Asian American product -- and that whites, blacks, and Latinos are willing to cross over to see it," says Lin.

So for FTG, the boys -- and Julie Asato, who produced both films -- are back on the road, meeting people, connecting with real filmgoers, extending the family. "I think that's the surprising thing to a lot of people, when they get to actually talk to us and meet us," says Kang. "That's where the whole family thing comes in. It's all about power in numbers. I wish I could bottle it up and share it, and show people who don't get it yet that yes, this is possible too. But it's such a rare thing, so many people think, 'Maybe this is just a PR thing. But it's not. This is real."

That sense of hope, of empowerment, of never giving in to overwhelming odds -- that's the fighting spirit that Lee hoped he'd inspire in his people. That's the heavenly glory.

"Things you only dream are possible, he made possible," says Fan. "He did it. And as Sung, Justin, Julie and I have been traveling across the country, if there was a spirit we've been guided by, it's very much that. We are willing the impossible to be possible. We believe that we're not just high-level followers -- that it's not enough for us to succeed inside of someone else's establishment. We want to be the establishment, to lead the establishment. That's what keeps us going. That's what gets us pumped."

It's like Lee himself said: There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. You must not be tense, but ready. You must not be set, but flexible. You must be liberated from the uneasy sense of confinement. Be wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert. Ready for whatever may come.

Bruce is gone, but always with us. Other fighters have stepped into the fray. And the game -- the game goes on.