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Features: Bruce Willis, Queen Elizabeth, hotos of Yoga Masters including Christy Turlington and Donna Karan, Ronald Reagan's diaries, YouTube, sushi, and much more! 230 pages. ... Read more

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Bruce Willis feature while filming, "Hudson Hawk", features on: The Most Powerfull 100 in Hollywood, also features on: Patsy Kensit, Jeff Bridges, Liza Minnelli, Matt Dillon, Nicholas Cage, ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on August 4, 2007. The length of the article is 1442 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: the Scene; CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Some 7,000 people showed up to watch Bruce Willis and his blues band perform at the Kennedy Space Center's rocket garden.Fans cheered as Willis sang and played the harmonica, filling the moments between song.(Entertainment)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 4, 2007
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People Magazine Back IssueMay 15, 2000 Featuring Bruce Willis on the coverRudy Guiliani fights cancerAshley Judd gets engaged ... Read more

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This is a digital press kit used by movie critics and entertainment writers. THIS IS NOT A DVD OF THE FILM, but it is a nice supplement to fans of the film or the stars! It is only a disk with a film synopsis, full credits and stories about the production. The disc has photos, behind the scenes movie stills and other stuff about the movie. Not available to the general public!It has pictures and a trailer, known as an electronic press kit, of Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, also Giovanni Ribisi and others ... Read more

Customer Reviews (9)

better; brighter and darker
the book is quite a bit better and I enjoyed the movie--
you get a more realistic hero-coming to LA to say goodbye to his daughter, his last tattered connection to this world and then end it
BUT trapped in a "situation" he's uniquely prepared for and very willing and even eager to die--but to Die Hard (the movie completely goes by this critical point)
beware the man with nothing to lose (which ironically is probably a pretty good encapsulation of the terrorist's credo)
Bruce Willis is ALL wrong for the book's lead character--there's no light macho comedy in this guy

Die Hard Gets Even Better
I gave the book "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp five stars without a question. "Die Hard" was based off this amazing novel, it takes you through a story of how a retired New York cop outwits 12 foreign thugs in an L.A. high rise. This book is filled with twists that'll keep you on your toes, characters that come alive, and tips you can use in everyday life. I encourage young and mature adults and action lovers to read this amazing book. It'll be a good challenge and an awesome reading experience!

It's the source for "Die Hard", but you'll be surprised...
A grim, more bleak version of what you might have been initially exposed to in the first "Die Hard" film, Roderick Thorp's "Nothing Lasts Forever" was a pleasure to read.

There are enough differences to keep movie-viewers off balance, and the writing is tough and terse, befitting it's hero, Joe Leland (not John McClane).

The plot similarities are as such: it opens on a plane from NYC to LAX. He's visiting an estranged family member in L.A., who works in a high rise and they're having a Christmas party when the building gets taken over by terrorists. There's a cop on the outside, there's the cop's "superior" who's not the most competent, the big bad guy is Anton (not Hans) Gruber...but...

...the tone is really quite different. It's a bit more introspective, withe Leland feeling himself consumed by hatred toward his enemies. When he takes out a terrorist, you get an impression of how it affects him. They're not casual. And as he "gets better" at it, it starts to change his thinking. It's pretty interesting stuff.

The media presence is handled much more seriously, not as a comic plot device/aside in the film. I thought it was much more realistic...the way media can manipulate the real story, and also how those people actually involved in the news story can manipulate the media right back. There's a few clever sequences that wouldn't have fit in the film, but are nevertheless pretty cool.

I'm withholding the numerous plot differences between the two, as I hope you'll discover them for yourselves, but as a teaser, the hero is going to visit his daughter, not his wife...

The film's screenplay, I think, is a masterpiece of action film writing. Good dialogue, nice exposition, decent plot twists. But the book is not that story; it's waaaay different. It has a different bent, and works equally well.

Thorp writes action well, so many scenes play out vividly in your imagination, without the help of the movie's imagery.

There are enough differences that I wasn't sure how the book was going to end, and you won't be sure either. Prepare for an unexpectedly pleasurable reading experience...

A must read for "Die Hard"fans
The book "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp is a must read for "Die Hard" fans. This book is about a cop named Joe Leland (in "Die Hard", John McLane)who goes to Los Angeles to visit his daughter Stephanie (in "Die Hard", his wife Holly) at the Klaxon Oil Building(in "Die Hard" the Nakatomi building)where Stephanie works. At the building, terrorists take over and Joe must go around the building killing the terrorists. This was the inspiration for the Bruce Willis movie "Die Hard"(1988). I'm a huge fan of the "Die Hard" movies, and if you are, too, buy this book.

Darker and grittier than the movie.
Die Hard (The Movie) fans may be intrested in reading this book, but beware, there are some major differences.One disappointing difference is the absence of Hans Gruber.The colorful mastermind from the movie is no where to be seen in this book.In fact there is no snappy banter to be found because the terrorists don't speak English.The realism factor is higher in this book too, not that Die Hard wasn't believable, but when you puke after realizing you've killed someone, you're talking real life.Other differences are abound in this book.You should read it to see them all.It's entertaining, and Thorpe is a talented writer, but this book is not quite as entertaining as the movie.Still, don't let that discourage you, I throughly believe that books hold more depth, detail and darkness than Hollywood. ... Read more