European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse June 2007 stars a i d stripes Page 37 faces Hasselbeck props from the television show the sopranos were up for grabs tuesday at a garage Sale in new sopranos set items up for Sale the sopranos Are Clearing out of the but first there having a garage its not As if Mellis tonys Bathrobe or Sil Vios hair care products Are for All the iconic stuff from the sopranos has been shipped to California while Hob decides what to do with it now that the series is left behind tuesday at a warehouse were rotary Catholic Kitchen bed More lamps and not much was even to the most devoted fans of the in most of it is the sopranos producer Henry Bronchtein ten years of thais what weve got Bronchtein but you one persons junk is another persons Hasselbeck unsure How to define Rosie Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she and Rosie Odonnell Arent on the Best of terms nearly one month after their Nair dust up on the i think a Friend is someone who you have positive communications so i dont know if i would define us As friends right the 30yearold cohost tells syndicated to show Access Holly Wood in a new York interview that was scheduled to air i did define us As but in not going to make the leap to assume that we will or will not be friends in the Hassel Beck the heated squabble broadcast live on a split screen As the two cohorts traded accusations and personal digs led to Odonnell Early departure from the Abc Day time Odonnell called Hasselbeck not saying anything in response to talk show critics who accused Odonnell of calling troops organizers push hard for Presley plate organizers in of a Campaign to get an Elvis Presley specially License plate May be rallying for the but there taking a Cue from the beatles with a Little help from my Ems Presley enterprises and the regional medical Center at Memphis will launch a Media Blitz to attract the purchasers they need for the state to begin production of the Elvis proceeds from sales of the plate would Benefit the med ical centers Elvis Presley memorial trauma the drive kicked off in october 2005 with organizers expecting to quickly meet the but the Effort has fallen waitress Star welcomes her first child Keri Russell is a the 31yearold actress welcomed her first a boy named River Russell on june 9 in new her Jill said Russell married Shane a in Manhattan on Valen tines the couple became engaged last she stars As a woman grappling with an unexpected pregnancy in the Independent romantic comedy which has been warmly Russell received by stories and photos from the associated press Markus actor Bruce Willis arrives at the German premiere off his new live free or die hard in Berlin on or Cool is Back Bruce Willis returns to die hard after 12 years by Christopher Kelly fort Worth Texas Star Telegram Dallas Bruce Willis looks polished to a Beverly Hills Hes trimmer and less Bulky in person than you might expect Doest seem to be an ounce of excess fat anywhere on his 52yearold Hes wearing an expensive looking Gray suit and a Crisp White on this Rainy late May morning at the Crescent court he keeps his Blackberry close at making cer Tain to Check email in Between he has that air of effortless authority that can Only be cultivated through years of being treated like the most important person in the for he forgets the name of a stunt person he worked with on the third die hard he asks a publicist to make a few phone Calls to los to find not unlike meryl streets charac Ter in the Devil wears he Doest need to raise his voice to make it perfectly Clear that he expects this in formation to be retrieved in three he is Cool and and try As you might to penetrate his guard to get him to reflect on his career in Hollywood or consider the possibility that Hes never gotten the credit he deserves As a serious actor Willis will steadfastly resist your fifty percent of the time in but 50 percent of the time in just As he says in response to a question about his Knack for choosing projects like die hard 1988 and the sixth sense 1999 critical and com Mercial successes that also redefined their respective i really dont know More than anyone else when you ask him when he began to develop such Evi Dent Confidence As an actor a Confidence that has Al Lowed him to take some vastly underappreciated in movies As far ranging As nobody fool twelve monkeys 1995 and unbreakable 2000 Willis even More quickly dismisses the i still dont know what in doing in still learning How to every you have to put on a Dif Ferent set of a different set of a different set of acting Ive Learned that thais the on june Willis will turn up once again As John Mcclane in live free or die the fourth instalment of the die hard franchise and the first die hard movie in 12 it sounds like one of those ill fated attempts by a fading Star to rekindle his past glory the kind of movie that could turn an icon into a laughingstock see Sylvester Stallones recent Rocky the thing about is that Hes never really despite having appeared in his share of notorious such As the Bonfire of the vanities 1990 and Hudson Hawk and despite the fact that he Hast had a huge hit in 5 must see Willis films mortal thoughts Willis revealed an unexpected dark Side playing a physically abusive husband who ends up dead in this vastly underrated drama directed by Alan the character might easily have been played As a but Willis finds nuance and even humanity pulp fiction Willis unique physical Bald the bulldog the Smirk that can readily curdle into a venomous frown has never been put to better use than in this great Quen tin Tarantino directed crime he plays a laconic Boxer trying to escape the clutches of a nobody fool this Small scale about a Man Paul Newman in upstate new York dealing with love and get Ting has been inexplicably forgotten in the 12 years since its re pay special attention to Willis Subtle and very funny performance As the steel Mill owner who cant be bothered to pay attention to his wife Melanie unbreakable take nothing away from Willis unforgettable work in the sixth but this second collaboration with director night Shyamala features the actors greatest performance to he plays the agonized sole survivor of a train wreck who begins to suspect that he might have if s a moving study of a Man Strug Ling to hold it together As the his life Hes know begins to fall apart an 16 blocks this thriller slipped in and out of Heaters with unfortunate Speed perhaps Many thought it was a routine action picture starring Willis in solemn Tough Guy in 16 blocks is cleverly constructed and tightly wound the sort of movie Gem that Holly Wood turned out regularly in the 1940s and it also gave the actor his Best role in that of a depressed cop who reclaims the fire in his belly when a routine assignment takes a deadly his Brand of simmering american unflappable Tough Guy who plays everything very close to the Vest Only seems More appealing in our modern Era of the eager please action Willis work in dramatic roles has proved even More being both understated and Willis would probably never fess up to this but behind this glistening and steely movie Star facade is one of the most accomplished and original actors working in movies the Day after Fox agreed to pay me million to do that every male actors salary in Hollywood rotated up to that Willis says of his record breaking salary for the original die i didst get any no no Christmas presents at the Willis was known mostly for his role As David Addison opposite cybill Shepherd on the Abc series he was also known As the former bar tender from new Jersey who partied a the idea that this likable but fundamentally lightweight to actor could Anchor a major summer movie seemed hard to Willis proved the naysayers wrong and then by the time he paired with night Shyamala for the no classic the sixth he was a major movie but that movie in which he played a mysterious Psychia trist who befriends a Young boy who has supernatural visions revealed that Willis had also developed the sort of Complex Interior life that we associate with our very great est
