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February 14, 2006

EW Can Blow Me, and Other Bruce Willis Bons Mots

Considering the record snowfall that smacked New York last weekend, you tell me what you think would have been a more grueling way to spend Sunday: Shoveling out of Reeler HQ all afternoon, or waiting an hour for Bruce Willis to show up at a press conference to discuss his new film 16 Blocks.

It is a closer call than you might imagine, if we are to believe parts of the transcript provided by CHUD's Devin Faraci:

Q: You are one of the few major Hollywood stars who are proud to be Republican...
Willis: Let me stop you right there. I'm a Republican — and everybody write this down because I'm sick of answering this fucking question.
Q: Can I continue –
Willis: You can continue, but let me answer that part of it. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion, I want them to stop pissing on my money and your money, the tax dollars that we give 50 per cent of or 40 per cent of every year, and I want them to be fiscally responsible, and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican. But other than that ... there's tons, billions and billions of dollars that are just being wasted. Okay? I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
Q: I thank you for this.
Willis: There you go. Now you can finish your question.
Q: Can I change my question?
Willis: Go ahead. I just need to get that Republican shit out of the way.

The decision gets even tougher after the jump.

Then there is some stuff about the cocaine trade in Colombia, the good and the bad things happening in Iraq, an earnest call to boost cops' and teachers' salaries and the requisite Die Hard 4 questions, prefaced by this tender pas de deux:

Q: Entertainment Weekly says…
Willis: Did you just say Entertainment Weekly? Do you work for them?
Q: No but they said one of the films they never want to see is Die Hard 4. Does that surprise you since all the want to see it? And would you still do it?
Willis: Entertainment Weekly hates me. They’ve hated me since they’ve been a magazine. Fuck ‘em. And you can go and tell them that.
Q: Why?
Willis: Because I’m a threat to them. Why does anybody hate anybody? Because they have some beef. Who cares? They can all blow me.

And here they come, down the stretch! It is close, folks--snow shoveling versus Bruce Willis on James Frey:

(James Frey) can write whatever he wants. It’s fiction. It’s just shameful how he was treated. It’s just shameful and it’s just not fair and not right. Justin Timberlake had a really good response when he was asked about that because I think he was asked to play James Frey in the making of that book. And he waited and waited and listened to everybody and said, ‘Have you heard of this magazine called In Touch Magazine? Or Us Weekly? Or People Magazine? Or any of these magazines. They lie about people and they just make up shit all week long.’ And you have to sue ‘em to get it changed. This is the world we live in. That is approved and that is okay and people go, ‘Ooh, ooh. Somebody’s boning this person over here or something, somebody did this over there,’ and they’re all lies and nobody’s yelling at them. So let’s leave James Frey alone, how about it?
I’m pissed off today.

And... scene. Needless to say, my sidewalk has never looked better.

Posted by stvanairsdale at February 14, 2006 12:42 PM

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Comments

I like stars like Willis who say whats on their mind and tell it like it is.

He has a great point about Frey and lying and other writers/magazines getting away with it.

Posted by: Rufus Masters [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2006 09:43 AM

Here's my favorite movie star telling-it-like-it-is moment:

T. Cruise: You're being glib, Matt, you're being glib. Did you know Ritalin is a street drug? You haven't studied psychiatry like I have. It's a pseudo-science.

Stars are called stars because they're so bright and illuminating!

Posted by: Ju-osh at February 15, 2006 11:29 AM

Love Bruce Willis and his comment-tirade...I'm going to see 16 blocks.

Posted by: AnonymousChicago at February 16, 2006 11:25 PM