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| | Bruce Willis is stepping away from his career after being diagnosed with aphasia | | Added 758 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Bruce Willis has been a lot quieter in recent years. He used to be a regular on talk shows, but he?s only been on chat shows or late night shows a handful of times in the past five years. He?s always been a prolific actor, often appearing in four or five films a year, although in recent years, he?s obviously doing more character roles and ensemble films. In 2021, he?s credited in seven films. In 2022, he?ll appear in seven films (according to his IMDB). He?s also got several films in post-production, meaning he?s already filmed them. And now it looks like those films will be his last works as an actor. Bruce Willis is retiring because of a neurological condition, aphasia.
Bruce Willis is retiring from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia. The 67-year-old actors family shared the news on Instagram Wednesday, writing alongside a photo of him on their Instagram feeds, To Bruces amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities.
As a result of this and with much consideration Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him, the caption added.
According to Mayo Clinic, aphasia robs you of the ability to communicate and can affect your ability to speak, write and understand language, both verbal and written. The group adds that the condition typically occurs suddenly after a stroke or a head injury. But it can also come on gradually from a slow-growing brain tumor or a disease that causes progressive, permanent damage (degenerative).
Bruces familys Instagram posts went on to say that it is a really challenging time for them all, and we are so appreciative of your continued love, compassion and support.
We are moving through this as a strong family unit, and wanted to bring his fans in because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him. As Bruce always says, Live it up and together we plan to do just that, they concluded, signing the note from the actors daughters Rumer Willis, Scout Willis, Tallulah Willis, Mabel Willis and Evelyn Willis, plus Bruces wife Emma Heming Willis and his ex-wife Demi Moore.
[From People]
I?ve dealt with people close to me with temporary aphasia and it?s tough. They search for words and lose their train of thought and struggle to communicate. Sometimes they lose the ability to read and write. The root cause can be anything, as People Magazine says. Willis could have some kind of underlying issue and the aphasia is more like a presenting symptom. Or it could be the result of a head injury or trauma. I idly wondered about Bruce doing his own stunt work for many years and whether that contributed to this. In any case, I hope he?s doing okay and I hope they can find some way to mitigate some of the worst of it. Prayers to Bruce and his family.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.
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| | Bruce Willis was kicked out of an LA Rite Aid for refusing to wear a mask | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hello, I haven?t eaten inside a restaurant since last March. I?m not doing outdoor seating either strictly takeout for me. The only time I go indoors (other than my house) is when I stop by the grocery store or CVS. And I put my mask on before I walk in. After ten months of this pandemic lifestyle, I feel like all of this should come naturally to us. Wouldn?t it actually feel weird to just go into indoor spaces without a mask now? Well, Bruce Willis is apparently still not used to it. He was trying to shop at a Rite Aid in LA, and he refused to wear a mask. So the Rite Aid people kicked him out.
He?d rather live free. Bruce Willis was asked to leave a Los Angeles Rite Aid on Monday after he refused to wear a mask, a spy tells Page Six. The spy says people inside the store became upset that Willis, 65, wasn?t wearing a mask ? despite having a bandanna tied around his neck, which he could have easily pulled up.
We?re told the ?Die Hard? star, who was photographed at the store without a mask on, walked away without making his purchase. A rep for Willis didn?t return Page Six?s request for comment.
Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in California, has surpassed 10,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Willis has spent much of the pandemic quarantining with ex-wife Demi Moore and their grown children, Scout, Rumer and Tallulah, at the family?s home in Idaho.
[From Page Six]
I went through the Backgrid photo archives, most of which are exclusives, to see if Bruce was photographed maskless throughout 2020. He? wasn?t. Most of the time, whenever he was pap?d last year, he had a bandana-mask or some kind of gator mask, and he always pulled it down when he was outdoors. My point, I guess, is that Bruce doesn?t seem like he?s one of those full-throttle dumbass anti-mask conspiracists. But I bet he downplays mask-wearing and he thought he could slip into Rite Aid quickly without a mask and that?s not how any of this works. I?m glad he was kicked out of Rite Aid. More public shaming! Businesses really need to empower their employees to tell maskless idiots to GTFO.
Hours after this story came out yesterday, Bruce confirmed it to People Magazine and told the magazine,It was an error in judgment. Be safe out there everyone and lets continue to mask up. Uh
Apparently, Bruce was wearing a bandana in Rite Aid, he just didn?t pull it over his mouth and nose. WTF? It would have been so easy for him to comply. Why???
Bruce Willis asked to leave pharmacy for refusing to wear a mask https://t.co/V4kcyxUwy3 pic.twitter.com/SORhCJwfEU
New York Post (@nypost) January 12, 2021
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He?s conquered both the television and movie realms, and now Bruce Willis is gearing up for his first foray into the world of Broadway Theater.
The ?Die Hard? hunk will star in a stage adaptation of the Stephen King classic ?Misery,? taking on the role of Sheldon, an author who crashes his car, only to be rescued by an obsessed fan named Annie Wilkes, played by Elizabeth Marvel.
Producer Mark Kaufman told press, ?Misery is an outstanding psychological thriller. Bruce Willis, who is making his Broadway debut, and Elizabeth Marvel are two great actors who are absolutely perfect to play these characters. I expect this production will be a suspenseful and exciting night of theatre on Broadway.?
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| | Bruce Willis Is a Fantastic Interview | | Added 10 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Bruce Willis and Mary Louise Parker were being interviewed by Jamie Edwards for Magic 105.4 forRed 2. It was one of those cattle lines where actors will do 30 or however many interviews they can fit in a day.
On this day, Willis was annoyed by Edwards for some reason and he started giving him a hard time. A few may even describe him as being an asshole. Well, not a few. Most. The interview took a nosedive almost immediately. Right after Edwards reminded Parker that “the mic’s here.” That could be what set him off. Maybe he thought he was being snide when he was just completely nervous.
Right in the beginning, Edwards asks what their favorite place to film was. Willis replied, “Instanbul,” which confused Edwards for a second when he pointed out it wasn’t one of the locations in the movie. “At least it proves I’ve seen the movie,” he added.
That’s when Willis turned on his full hardass mode. “Has any actor ever told you this, Jamie? This part is not acting, what we’re doing right now. You might be, but we’re just selling the film now. Sales. The fun part was making the movie.” Oh, well excuse me, your majesty.
At one point, Bruce said he’d rather slash his hooves than promote this movie and was dreaming of driving away. Suffice to say, the interview went swimmingly.
This brings us back to last week when Mary Louise Parker said she was quitting acting because people were getting too mean to celebrities. Uh, gee, you don’t think stuff like this has anything to do with it?
The post Bruce Willis Is a Fantastic Interview appeared first on The Blemish.
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| | Bruce Willis: 'I had been sober, but I have wine now' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Bruce Willis did an interview on BBC’s One Show earlier this month to promote the latest Die Hard movie. The interview got a lot of press because Bruce seemed drunk. He slurred his words, sounded incoherent at times, and was a dud overall. The British press lambasted him, but I saw the interview and it wasn’t horrible or anything. (It’s available in two parts on YouTube. The most awkward parts are around 3:20 and 8:00 in this first video.) If anything he sounded like the drunk dude at the corner bar who thinks he’s being philosophical, makes little sense and is generally harmless. This is his job, though, and he should strive to at least be sober when he’s doing promotional duties. Can you imagine if he was wasted like that on Letterman or Leno? That story would have had a lot more mileage.
Willis covers the new issue of GQ, and his interview may reveal why he acted like that on British television. He admits that he’s no longer abstaining from alcohol and that he enjoys “wine with dinner.” Here are some excerpts from his GQ interview, with more at the source:
Bruce Willis on his advice to actors:
?I recently heard one of my fellow actors say it in three words: ?Just shut up.? Just go silent. Maybe it?s being older; maybe that?s just a tiny tag of wisdom, that you?ve got to think about something before you say something. I once thought that somehow, with this job, also comes the inherent right to say whatever the f*k I want regardless of whether I?m right or wrong or think that anybody needs to hear it or shouldhear it.?
?on never being nominated for an Oscar:
?I don?t think about it too much. It just always has seemed whimsical to me, to think about it. You don?t get an Oscar for comedy, and you don?t get it for shooting people. You get it for novelty, of being fascinating to watch in some character role. But the Die Hard stuff and Dirty Harry are all fraught with the same thing that every story is fraught with.?
…on his sobriety: ?I had been sober [for a while]. But once I realized that I wasn?t gonna run myself off the pier of life with alcohol, drinking vodka out of the bottle every day? I have wine now, mostly when I eat.?
?on maybe trying out theater:
?I?d like to go and do theater. It seems like a more reasonable job, more manageable.?
?on future plans and if he’d pursue politics:
And nobody wants to hear this bad news, but we?re all dying on some level. I?m going to try to keep the machine moving forward as much as possible and not have to think about the eventuality of becoming more frail and less able to do the work. I know that I?m not going into politics. That?s not an option. I was asked, and I said, ?Did you hear any of the stuff about me when I was a kid??
?on Bill O?Reilly and his books: ?I?ve been reading a lot of?I read a lot anyway, but?I?ve been reading a lot, in Europe. ? [Bill O?Reilly] wrote about the assassination of Lincoln and the assassination of JFK. I learned more things from him and his story of JFK than I ever knew. Bill O?Reilly is a great researcher. Whatever you think about his character that he plays in the news, he?s a great researcher.?
[From GQ]
I still find Bruce Willis to be incredibly hot in theory, but there’s something sad about him when he’s drunk. He was very soft spoken and goofy and he lost his appeal for me in that interview. He had more than a couple glasses of wine at dinner that’s for sure.
Huffington Post reminds us that Bruce got sober around 1988, and that he quit his gig as a spokesperson for Seagram’s Wine Coolers because he quit drinking. I wonder if he was sober for over 20 years.
A Good Day to Die Hard is out in the US on Valentine’s Day. Can you believe that this franchise is still going strong after 25 years? The first movie came out in 1988. Matt Damon could have easily done that with the Bourne movies, he could have ridden that franchise into the ground but he knew when to step down. Bruce doesn’t mind. He said in that BBC interview that he’d do a sixth Die Hard movie.
In these photos below Bruce is shown in Paris yesterday receiving the “Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.” It’s a prestigious award from the French Minister of Culture for “significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the propagation of these fields.” His wife looks really good. She’s all of 34 now, and she had a baby about 10 months ago.
Photo credit: WENN.com
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| | Bruce Willis Being All Stylish in Paris | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Heming took a stroll through the streets of Paris. First off, I know that’s supposed to be a scarf Bruce is wearing but it looks more like he tore a piece of curtain off an abandoned house and threw it around his neck. Secondly, Bruce Willis is supposed to be this badass but that doesn’t give him a free pass to wear a homeless guy’s pea coat around his neck. Unless of course he stole the pea coat off the homeless guy after killing him with his bare hands. In which case, here’s a respectful fist bump.
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| | Bruce Willis: 'Mitt Romney is just such a disappointment, an embarrassment' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m not going to pretend that Bruce Willis?s Esquire cover story for the June issue is a laugh-a-minute. Bruce Willis is not a good interview. At all. And Esquire’s Tom Chiarella (a writer who has done some of the worst & bitchiest profiles for Esquire, but who also did that Liam Neeson sob-fest) makes that very clear by spending too much time writing about Bruce?s bathroom trips (he pees five times in two hours) and pear-eating (he eats five pears in two hours). Bruce agreed to the cover story because he has five movies coming out this year: Moonrise Kingdom, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The Expendables 2, The Cold Light of Day and Rian Johnson’s Looper. And he?s currently filming the fifth Die Hard, of course. Now, Chiarella does make an excuse for Bruce?s lack of humor, personality and interest – the interview took place just a few days before Bruce?s wife Emma Heming gave birth, and he obviously wanted to be with her and not sitting down with Esquire. Bruce says, ?All I want right now is to be with her, to stare at her belly.” Which is kind of cute, until you realize that he?s using that as an excuse to not give a good interview. You can read the full piece here, and here are some highlights:
On the latest Die Hard: “I’d call it what it is: Die Hard 5.” But he gets no say, so this time John McClane will live through A Good Day to Die Hard? No matter, he says. “I’m glad to have John McClane. There is no turmoil about it for me. I eschew turmoil. I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.”
He isn?t into drama: “I don’t have an ax to grind,” he says. “I don’t have anything I want to say. I might have gone off once. I might have started in ? Hollywood! With the ‘tough town, tough business, tough life.’ Generating a little context for me and my turmoil. But I don’t have a tough life. I know that? I’m happy. Actively happy. I eschew turmoil.”
Working with Wes Anderson in Moonrise Kingdom: He’s surprisingly great therein, although he claims he’s not an actor. “I don’t think I’m very good at it,” he says of acting. “But I like doing it, and a guy like Wes, even he’d say this movie was outside the body of his past work. And that was me. So I listened to what he was saying, and we got the work done.” As a sheriff and a kind of childless father, Willis plays the first-ever full-blown-adult Wes Anderson character to possess a true moral compass, one stripped of eccentricity, contrivance, fetish. Likable and unself-conscious, Willis quietly out-acts Anderson’s usual stable of pajama-wearing accents, unclipping real human kindness from the sherbet palette of the film, treating said kindness without pride, like something you might find in a desk drawer. “Storyteller,” he says of Anderson. “The movie is a kind of eternal children’s story. The kids adventure, the adults worry. But it’s a brand-new creation, and it felt very unusual to me.”
The gym: Willis details nothing about the workout, calling it only “the gym.” He’s going back at 4:00. The gym. It’s not a requirement. “That’s just me,” he says. “I’m coming off a phase where I allowed myself baked goods. I sought them out. I did not hold back on baked goods. So, the gym? The day this job gets tough will be the day I can’t run. The day I can’t move quickly or knock somebody out ? at least look like I knocked somebody out, convincingly. There is a limit. An end point. It’s mostly physical. So, the gym.”
On politics: “I get cranked up, I start talking about Hollywood and what’s wrong with what. Or politics. I might start in on Mitt Romney.” Romney? “Yeah, Romney. He’s just such a disappointment, an embarrassment. Chin up, hair up. He’s just one of those guys, one of those guys who says he’s going to change everything? And he’ll get in there, and they’ll smile at him and introduce themselves: ‘We’re Congress, we make sure nothing changes.’ He won’t do it. He can’t. Everybody wants to be Barack Obama. And what did he change?” You think Romney’ll win? “No. Nah. I don’t really care.”
Bruce?s fun times: “Now I’m fun, just with fewer people. I’m in love with my wife and my kids. I require very little. Friends come over, the kids come over when they can. We eat dinner. And I’m happy to play along with their momentum. I save it for them. This is it. I’m happy. This is how I’m doing. That’s my fun.”
His favorite movie: “I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called Mortal Thoughts. The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.”
What he misses: “Every once in a while I want to go to a diner. I want to go to Junior’s. Or Nate ‘n Al’s. A good, cheap diner. That’s an East Coast thing. Like the rice pudding in New York. So good. Only in diners. I search for it here, but it’s not the same. Though there’s a place on Fairfax. I can’t think of the name.”
Parenting rules: “Sometimes I have to resist the urge to speak. I learned it from dealing with my kids. That’s my number-one rule. It applies in life? But it’s more about being a father. I’d rather hear what they have to say. You learn more by listening. And this stuff is just a matter of not equating drama with actions that will help them. Teach them to shun drama.”
More rules: “Take responsibility for when you are wrong? They hear you own up, and they learn to own up?.You have to give them a code? Beginning with things like ‘Don’t bite people.’ That becomes something like ‘It’s not okay to be mean. Ever.’ That was our watchword when the girls were younger.” Willis’s fifth element: “I make them laugh. You gotta do the drool-take, gotta make them see that goofiness is still safe. You have to make them laugh at you.”
[From Esquire]
He comes across as? I don?t even know. I was going to say tightly-wound, but I don?t think that?s right. Like, he?s hyper-conscious of how he puts himself out there, extra-careful about any public statement. Other movie stars are like that too, of course, but they?re not this obvious about it. Still, I like Bruce?s parenting rules and I liked what he said about getting to the point where he might not be able to do physical roles anymore. Maybe he?s a completely different person in real life. He would have to be, wouldn?t he?
Photos courtesy of Esquire.
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| | Bruce Willis Shows Off His Kid | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming posted the above photo of their daughter Mabel on Twitter this morning with the caption,”A beautiful day in Budapest with the loves of my life. Daddy and Mabel cracking each other up.”
No word on if Mabel here has the Rumer Willis block chin. It’s too hard to tell right now when she’s just a baby. They should attach a tight chin strap to her just in case.
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| | Bruce Willis & Emma Heming: Proud Parents of Baby Girl! | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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It was a huge day in the lives of Bruce Willis and Emma Heming yesterday (April 1) as they welcomed their first child together.
Daughter Mabel Ray Willis was born, weighing in at 9 pounds, 1 ounce and mother and baby are both healthy and happy.
This makes four daughters overall for Bruce, as he has three with ex-wife Demi Moore- Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah.
Emma and Bruce got hitched three years ago, and announced this past October that they had a baby on the way.
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| | Bruce Willis and Wife Emma Heming Welcome a Daughter | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Heming welcomed their first daughter together yesterday. Since his wife is 22 years younger than him (and consequently, one year younger than his oldest daughter), his daughter is young enough to be his granddaughter. Yup, it must be nice to be a rich and famous male. Says US Weekly,
Bruce Willis has a brand-new special lady in his life.
The 57-year-old actor’s second wife, Emma Heming, gave birth to a daughter, Mabel Ray Willis, on Sunday, their rep told ETonline.
Little Mabel Ray weighed in at 9 pounds, 1 ounce, and both baby and her model-designer mom, 35, are doing well. This is the first child for the couple, who tied the knot in 2009. The rep added that Willis and Heming are “overjoyed” by the arrival.
It’s the fourth daughter for Willis, who has three girls with ex-wife Demi Moore: Rumer, 23, Scout, 20, and Tallulah, 17.
Holy crap, 9lbs. 1oz? That’s one big baby. And if Bruce’s dominant genes won out again, most of the weight was probably in her chin.
Hey, speaking of chins, here’s Mabel Ray’s older half-sister Rumer Willis:
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