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...grown into the Bruce Willis character by the time he got the costarring role with Cybill Shepherd in Moonlighting. His character was the sun-caked earth to Shepherd's airy prom queen, and its success propelled him into a series of big-screen comedies for which the best remedy is amnesia. It took Die Hard in 1988, and a poster of Willis all muscled up and sweaty, to make him a plausible cop-hero action star...
...Bruce Willis the best leading man of his generation never to have been nominated for an Academy Award? Willis's name doesn't come up much at Oscar time, and it's not as if he shows any signs of caring about industry recognition. Maybe people in Hollywood think of him as just another tough guy, wise-ass and cocksure, and figure that star acting is something that lucky people are born with and get well paid for. But think of some signal films of the past decade or so: Pulp Fiction, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense...
...look at. With his coiled poise and the compact gestures of someone who doesn't mind being scrutinized by the camera, Willis exudes worldly wariness and cosmic weariness, as if he'd achieved a state of Zen machismo. He offered a giant dose of this in the last and best Die Hard movie, in 2007, where his hero, John McClane, was so close to a still life - his own heroic statue - that we wondered if the guy was even alive. Well, yes and no. There's an ache in the eyes of the typical Willis character that says...
...York. "That's the reason he's in Honduras now - to be with the people there and move this process forward so we can sign San José immediately." Arias and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while not endorsing Zelaya's theatrics, agreed that "this is the best opportunity, now that Zelaya is back in the country," to ink the accord, said Arias. Clinton called the moment "opportune" to restore Zelaya and "get on with the election that is currently scheduled for November, have a peaceful transition of presidential authority and get Honduras back to constitutional and democratic rule...
...Monday, Sept. 21, French daily Le Figaro ran an entire page about the book ahead of its Oct. 1 release, prompting immediate international coverage. Little wonder: Le Figaro did its best to help jolt public interest by hyping the enigma of whether the obvious similarities between the lovers referred to in the title and Giscard and Diana hinted at a real-life affair between the author and the British princess who died in a car crash in Paris...