Tag: Moonlighting

  • How To Watch Moonlighting (Finally)

    How To Watch Moonlighting (Finally)

    There wasn’t a funnier or sharper show in the mid-1980s than “Moonlighting” became a Nielsen ratings behemoth.American television viewers weren’t exactly clamoring for an amiably off-kilter riff on “The Thin Man” and 1930s – ’40s screwball comedies at the time, but once they saw Shepherd and Willis bantering with Hepburn-Grant ease, they were sold. “

  • Bruce Willis Would Have Passed On Die Hard Without A Cybill Shepherd ‘Miracle’

    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…

  • John Travolta, M. Night Shyamalan, and More Honor Bruce Willis Following Aphasia Diagnosis

    John Travolta, M. Night Shyamalan, and More Honor Bruce Willis Following Aphasia Diagnosis

    Much of the film industry’s attention has been focused on Bruce Willis this week, as the actor announced Wednesday that he would be stepping away from performing due to his struggle with aphasia, a disease that makes it difficult to communicate and understand language. The difficult news marked the end of a storied Hollywood career…

  • Bruce Willis Is Retiring From Acting Following Aphasia Diagnosis

    Bruce Willis Is Retiring From Acting Following Aphasia Diagnosis

    Actor Bruce Willis has had an incredible career for nearly 40 years. His breakout big screen role as John McClane in “Die Hard” in 1988 — following a successful TV run as the star of “Moonlighting” — cemented him as an action hero for the ages, and he’s been a major Hollywood player ever since.…

  • Here’s Where You Can Rent Every ‘Die Hard’ Movie

    Here’s Where You Can Rent Every ‘Die Hard’ Movie

    (Welcome to Where to Watch, which provides a clear and simple answer to the question, “Hey, where can I watch this thing?” In this edition: the Die Hard franchise.) Before Bruce Willis became the king of making direct-to-video movies filmed in Eastern Europe, he was that guy from Moonlighting who ended up getting cast as…