Tag: Die Hard
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How to Watch ‘Die Hard’
It’s hard to say anything about Die Hard that hasn’t already been said. The classic 1988 action movie about a New York cop who flies to LA to reconnect with his estranged wife and kids but instead has to fight an office building full of terrorists is a tale as old as time. Outside of…
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Clarence Gilyard Jr., ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ and ‘Die Hard’ Star, Dies at 66
Clarence Gilyard Jr., an actor best known for starring in “Walker, Texas Ranger” and his supporting performance in “Die Hard,” has died. He was 66 years old. No further details about his death are available at this time.Gilyard’s death was confirmed through a statement by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Gilyard had been working…
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Bruce Willis Would Have Passed On Die Hard Without A Cybill Shepherd ‘Miracle’
Bruce Willis’ role in “Die Hard” is perhaps the most iconic of his career. Even with movies like “The Fifth Element” and “The Sixth Sense” counted in his favor, there’s no more prototypical Bruce Willis experience than the “Die Hard” franchise. Willis just perfectly embodies the everyman cop forced to become an action hero.But “Die…
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Bruce Willis Credits The Cub Scouts With Kicking Off His Acting Career
There was an era of prime Bruce Willis where he was one of the most believable everyman tough guys in Hollywood. I mean, of course, he was in “Die Hard,” the gold standard of movies about regular guys kicking ass. It makes sense that a man with his mix of likability and coolness spent his…
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Is Deepfake a Good Thing?
Two recent events have brought the future of celebrity appearances to light. Initial reports that Bruce Willis had sold his rights to a deepfake company, allowing his “digital twin” to appear in future projects, and confirmed reports that James Earl Jones’ signed over the rights to his voice recordings to an A.I. company to be…
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Bruce Willis Denies Selling His Digital Likeness to Deepfake Company
Bruce Willis has rejected claims he sold his digital likeness to deepfake organization Deepcake. The denial comes just days after the legendary Die Hard actor was reported to have agreed for his likeness to be used in future on-screen appearances. Deepfake technology has taken the world by storm for its remarkable ability to replace one…
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Alan Rickman’s secret showbiz diaries: the late actor on Harry Potter, politics and what he really thought of his co-stars
After his death in 2016, Rickman left a trove of revealing journals. In this exclusive extract, he recounts his 10 years playing Professor Snape – and the many political and Hollywood dramas along the way• ‘An unbelievable Die Hard rip-off’: two decades of Rickman’s withering film reviewsFrom 1972, Alan Rickman kept a pocket diary in…
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Why Alan Rickman Was Such a Great Romantic Lead, From Austen to Hogwarts
Since Alan Rickman’s unexpected death in 2016, movie fans have been missing a part of themselves — more specifically, a part of that side of our brains that just loves to root for the bad guys. Throughout his career, Rickman marked many childhoods and adulthoods playing villains and anti-heroes such as Die Hard’s Hans Gruber,…
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Harrison Ford, Pierce Brosnan Praise John McTiernan, Vic Armstrong at London Action Festival Awards (Exclusive)
A galaxy of stars paid fulsome tribute to filmmaker John McTiernan and stuntman Vic Armstrong as they were both awarded Moving Target awards on Friday for their outstanding contributions to the action genre at the inaugural London Action Festival.The awards were presented at London’s Royal London Geographical Society and icons from the action genre attended,…
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Bruce Willis Worried His ‘Baggage’ Would Bring Down 12 Monkeys
Everyone knows Bruce Willis the action movie star, the actor famed for playing stubborn, wise-cracking heroes in the “Die Hard” film series, “The Fifth Element,” “Armageddon,” and so on. Lesser-known or, perhaps more accurately, lesser-appreciated, is Bruce Willis the character actor, the star who portrayed a Vietnam War veteran with Ptsd in the movie “In…