Dear Chris,

Thank you very much for this moving (and often hilarious!) remembrance of David. I'd always suspected that your on-screen chemistry in KF:TLC was real, and very natural - the product of real friends over and above the acting.

This may seem like a strange time to ask this, but was there ever any sense that WB was at all interested in doing a movie that would have cleared up all the ambiguities and questions at the end of KF:TLC? It seems a shame that unfinished business would not be somehow resolved. I suppose the only way it could be done now - if at all - would be from the perspective of Peter Caine many years later, with a son of his own and carrying on the Shaolin tradition with him, and of course, the kid begins to ask questions, thus setting up a flashback story in which all of those questions left dangling at the end of the series could be confronted and answered. Would be nice to see, wouldn't it?

One of the happiest events in my life - television-wise - was David's return in KF:TLC. The original Kung-Fu had been my first real introduction to anything "mystical", the philosophy opening me to hitherto-unknown worlds. I was fascinated, captivated, and heart-broken when the show disappeared. Experiencing that philosophy on-screen again was an indescribable delight - made even more enjoyable by the presence of Robert Lansing (and later, more poignant by his passing), whose career I'd followed since "12 O'Clock High" in the 1960's. I've been a closet writer for a long time, and KF:TLC moved me to join Camille's Kung Fu List over at Yahoo, where I posted a number of KF:TLC stories in the mid 1990's (including my own take on a continuation post-series). I'd always wondered if you and David had seen those stories (not only mine, but all the fans' stuff there) and what you must have though of them!

Again, thanks for the David Carradine retrospective. I'm deeply saddened, of course by his departure, yet a detail from just after the end of the original Kung Fu always returns when I think about him. Soon after reports had surfaced that David was leaving not only the show, Kung Fu, but that he had sworn that he would walk away from practicing the art itself, TV Guide asked Keye Luke about it. Keye laughed and replied that if anyone had looked into David's eyes, they would see that "he has the fire - it will never leave him!" Once again - as always - "Master Po" was right!

Bests, and much success,
Dominick Carlucci
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