ADVISORY/Bruce Willis "Kids" Around With Disney.com Chat.Entertainment Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (June 29) --(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)-- NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--June 26, 2000--He's been trapped in a building with terrorists, he's saved a kid who sees dead people, and, in his latest film, he confronts himself as an eight-year-old child. Now, the international action hero faces his toughest challenge yet: a whole hour of questions from his fans. Bruce Willis, star of the new live-action film "Disney's The Kid," will host a live online audio chat June 29 from 5-6 p.m. E.D.T/2-3 p.m. P.D.T. at the film's Web site (Disney.com, D-Word: Kid). Willis is just wrapping his next film, "Unbreakable" -- director Night Shyamalan's follow-up to last year's hit "The Sixth Sense" -- and ready to chat about everything from his big break on "Moonlighting" to his recent career of working with child actors. The Web site also features a production diary by director Jon Turteltaub; a scrapbook A Macintosh disk file that holds frequently used text and graphics objects, such as a company letterhead. Contrast with "clipboard," which is reserved memory that holds data only for the current session. by the film's scene-stealing star, Spencer Breslin; video greetings from the two; the theatrical trailer; and information about the film. In "Disney's The Kid," Willis plays Russ Duritz, a high-powered, successful "image consultant" whose life is suddenly turned upside down when he magically meets Rusty -- himself as an eight-year-old child. Rusty is a sweet but slightly geeky, pudgy little kid who is not at all happy with how he turns out -- as a 40-year-old "loser" without a wife or even a dog. Through the kid, Russ learns about himself and remembers his childhood dreams, helping him to become the grown-up grown-up adj. 1. Of, characteristic of, or intended for adults: grown-up movies; a grown-up discussion. 2. they both want to be. Walt Disney Pictures presents a Junction Entertainment Production, a Jon Turteltaub film, starring Bruce Willis in "Disney's The Kid," directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay written by Audrey Wells. The producers are Jon Turteltaub, Christina Steinberg and Hunt Lowry. Arnold Rifkin and David Willis are executive producers. The film is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. "Disney's The Kid," also starring Spencer Breslin, Lily Tomlin, Emily Mortimer, Chi McBride, and Jean Smart, opens nationwide on July 7. About Disney Online Founded in February 1995, Disney Online produces Disney.com, the No. 1 kids and family entertainment site on the Web. Disney.com is part of GO.com (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GO), the Internet business of The Walt Disney Company. GO.com manages some of the Internet's most popular Web sites, including the GO.com portal, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. .com, ABCNEWS.com, ABCSports.com, Disney.com, DisneyStore.com, DisneyTravel.com, Family.com, ESPN.com, Movies.com, Mr. Showbiz, NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Online, NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= .com and NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga .com. Steven M. Bornstein is the chairman of GO.com, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, Calif., with operations in Sunnyvale, Calif., Bristol, Conn., Seattle, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion