WILLIS DOES `HARD-BOILED' TURN IN `LAST MAN STANDING'.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard series. and filmmaker Walter Hill, who have New Line's ``Last Man Standing'' coming out next month, are laying plans to make a second film together next year. And possibly another one after that. The proposed '97 production is called ``Icarus.'' It would be made for Paramount and would have Willis portraying a modern-day pilot. Also in development at Paramount is a big-screen version of the old Vic Old Vic, London repertory company and theater. The Old Vic theater opened in 1818 as the Coburg, and was renamed the Royal Victoria in 1833, soon familiarized to the Old Vic. Morrow World War II TV series, ``Combat.'' Hill reports the Willis we'll see in ``Last Man Standing'' is not Bruce ``as anyone has seen him before. He's much tougher, a truly hard-boiled character - a professional criminal who decides he has to do one good thing in his life. ... Bruce and I discussed the sort of hard characters that Bogart and Mitchum played. He has wanted to try playing a character like that for a long time.'' ``Last Man Standing'' utilizes the same plot line as Akira Kurosawa's classic 1961 samurai samurai (sä'm  rī`), knights of feudal Japan, retainers of the daimyo. This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th-century wars between the Taira and Minamoto clans and was film ``Yojimbo'' - but set in the world of 1930s bootleggers on the Texas border. As a longtime admirer of Kurosawa, ``I was reluctant to do this movie at first,'' says Hill. ``Then I learned that Kurosawa had been involved in the rights deal himself ... and blessed the idea of an American film being based on his movie.'' A legend in his own time: Eddie Murphy Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. will supply the comic relief comic relief n. A humorous or farcical interlude in a serious literary work or drama, especially a tragedy, intended to relieve the dramatic tension or heighten the emotional impact by means of contrast. in Disney's upcoming ``The Legend of Moolan'' with Ming Na Wen. In the animated film, based on the Chinese folk tale about a young girl who goes to war disguised as a man in place of her ailing father, Murphy ``plays this dragon in her backpack, kind of like Jiminy Cricket,'' reports B.D. Wong, who voices Shang, the captain of the army. Wong, who's just wrapping the big-screen Bubble Factory comedy ``Stinkers,'' will next start prepping for ``7 Years in Tibet'' with Brad Pitt. ``We start in Argentina in the middle of September,'' says Wong. ``I have so much research and videos and all these books to read.'' In the project, based on the life of mountaineer Heinrich Harrar (Pitt), Wong plays ``this character who was kind of thought of as the Tibetan Benedict Arnold.'' Something to chew on: When HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy unveils its unique Cinemax Reel Life documentary, ``The Burger and the King,'' Friday, viewers across the land will be able to mark the 19th anniversary of the passing of Elvis Presley by learning about his favorite foods. Much of that information comes from Presley's longtime cook, Mary Jenkins. Surprisingly, she tells us she didn't know her interview would be used as the basis of a full-fledged documentary until a couple of weeks ago. ``I didn't think it was going to be that long. I thought it would be a little shot - about 10 minutes,'' says the kitchen wiz, who feels the show turned out to be ``very nice.'' So, what's in it for Mary? ``That's what I was wondering, too,'' she says. ``I haven't got an answer yet. I've got to talk to one of those producers again.'' Jenkins, who spends much of her time these days caring for her ailing husband in a nursing home, remains close to the Presley family. Priscilla, she says, phones occasionally. And Lisa Marie
Lisa Marie Smith (born December 5, 1968 in Piscataway Township, New Jersey), more commonly referred to as simply Lisa Marie, is an American model and actress. is still ``crazy about my chicken ... I haven't seen Lisa since October, when I went out and cooked for them - her and Michael. I cooked chicken and vegetables.'' The inside track: Legendary jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson, 72, is keeping a pace that would daunt daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin most folks half his age. Johnson heads into the studio next month to work on ``a special project. I'm very excited about it ... It's mostly compositions of my own creation for a very large brass ensemble - six trumpets, four French horns French horn, brass wind musical instrument. Fundamentally a metal tube of narrow conical bore, it is curved into circles because of its great length. The horn ends in a wide flare. It is a development (c.1650) of the small hunting horn. , four trombones, two euphoniums, two tubas
Tubas (Arabic: طوباس , harp, percussion, piano and drum. I've been working on it diligently for some months now because it involves so much composition. I'll record that Sept. 23 through 27. Then, the following week, I'll record a second CD with my quintet under my new contract with Polygram Records.'' The videoland view: Karen Sillas (``Under Suspicion'') and Gary Cole This article is about the actor. For the footballer, see Gary Cole (footballer). Gary M. Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American actor, known for numerous roles, including the television series Fatal Vision, The West Wing, (most recently Mr. Brady of those ``Brady Bunch'' movies) get together and have a romance in a soon-to-shoot 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. telepic. But it isn't pretty. The title is ``The Lies He Told,'' which gives you some idea of the no-good, cheating, evading character Cole plays. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Bruce Willis A different look MEMO: The Celebritiescolumn appears Monday through Friday. |
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