Bruce Willis Plans to Honor $1 Million Pledge (Reward to Saddam's captor)

http://www.wokr13.tv/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=F3A7547B-43C7-4E07-8FC3-D4463EDC97C4 ^ | 12/18/03

[lowbridge]

Movie star Bruce Willis is planning to honor the $1 million offer he made to the soldier who found Saddam Hussein.

The movie star visited troops in Iraq last month and promised to make the soldier who uncovered the country's former leader an overnight millionaire.

Willis is now trying to discover who he owes, and says, "It's a small price to pay. They're my heroes."

[Right_in_Virginia]

Do movie stars get residuals if we rent their movies or only if we buy them? Buying [only]."

Somebody is getting some Bruce Willis movie next Thursday!

GREAT IDEA....Fill those stockings!!!!

[Indie]

I think your sarcasm-o-meter needs fluid...

Oppps....I feel sheepish~ LOL>

[mindspy]

I'm a first timer but I had to add my comment about Bruce. Bruce is one cool dude who I feel deserves to be a movie star. He is a genuine guy and that comes through in the characters he plays. Whenever you watch a Bruce Willis movie you always find yourself pulling for him and worrying about him. You always care about the character he is playing. That can't be said about many actors.
Gotta love the Willisman.

[Ciexyz]

I really enjoyed his WW II POW film with Colin Farrell that came out almost two years ago. Well worth renting.

[chudogg]

Seems like this was a team effort. This link here says there were 600 soldiers involved. Thats about 1600 per person.

[Bob J]

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[Lester Moore]

My movie/movie star trivia queen wife says that Sean has been married to the same woman for years & she is not an actress.

[wizardoz]

I say it should go to the guy who had the hand grenade in his hand and was seconds from whipping it down the hole.

[wizardoz]

Maybe they'll vote to use it to set up a college fund for the orphans of soldiers who've died in combat. Of course, they should stipulate that it's only for private colleges that aren't hard left.

[Snuffington]

Sheesh. I was just going to send cigars. Show off.

[VOA]

$1,000,000 to our medicos who made sure that Saddam was free of cancer of
the prostate and colon at his check-in physical.

[NYCVirago]

That's really cool news. Thanks for posting this.

[wizardoz]

Yeah, but I think Sean's been married 2 or 3 times.

[zip]

ping

[MonroeDNA]

BW roxks!!!!!

Too cool!

Thank God for patriots.

Thank God for the whiners, who let us know they are hurting, like stuck pigs.

Wooooo Hooooo!

[neverdem]

LOL

[lowbridge]

Are you certain?

Very certain. If I buy a movie, then the studio gets a percentage, the DVD/video distribtor gets a percentage, the star (depending on the contract they negotiated) gets a percentage, etc. After that, when I rent it out, I keep all the profits of that to myself. And when I sell it (used), I still keep the money from that sale as well.

That very first purchase I made, buying the brand new DVD or video, thats the one and only time they make any money from the DVD/Video release. Rentals and re-sales of their used videos, they make nothing.

[Rebel_Ace]

Bio Info I found about Sean Connery:

Wives:
Micheline Roquebrune (painter; French; married in 1975)
Diane Cilento (actress; married in 1962; divorced in 1973)

If Costner was talking about the actress, here are 16 possiblities where she appeared in flix still available in VHS:

Hitler: The Last 10 Days (1973) [PG]
CAST: Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti

Hombre (1967) [NR]
CAST: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Rush, Martin Balsam;

I Thank a Fool (1962) [G]
CAST: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Kieron Moore

Jet Storm (1961) [G]
CAST: Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Bernard Braden, Diane Cilento

Negatives (1968) [NR]
CAST: Peter McEnery, Diane Cilento, Glenda Jackson, Maurice Denham, Norman Rossington; DIRECTED BY: Peter Medak

Rattle of a Simple Man (1964) [NR]
CAST: Harry H. Corbett, Diane Cilento, Michael Medwin, Thora Hird; DIRECTED BY: Muriel Box

Stop Me Before I Kill (1961) [G]
CAST: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Braden

The Admirable Crichton (1957) [NR]
CAST: Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Diane Cilento, Martita Hunt, Jack Watling, Peter Graves, Gerald Harper; DIRECTED BY: Lewis Gilbert

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) [NR]
CAST: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Harry Andrews, Diane Cilento, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi; DIRECTED BY: Carol Reed

The Naked Edge (1961) [NR]
CAST: Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold, Peter Cushing, Michael Wilding, Ronald Howard; DIRECTED BY: Michael Anderson

Third Secret (1964) [G]
CAST: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Margaret Leighton

Tom Jones (1963) [NR]
CAST: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane Cilento, George Devine, David Tomlinson, Joyce Redman, Lynn Redgrave, Julian Glover, Peter Bull, David Warner; DIRECTED BY: Tony Richardson

Z.P.G. (1972) [PG]
CAST: Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon, Diane Cilento, Eugene Blau

The Wicker Man (1975) [NR]
CAST: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Irene Sunters, Walter Carr, Geraldine Cowper, Lesley Mackie; DIRECTED BY: Robin Hardy

Winner Takes All (1986) [R]
CAST: Jason Connery, Diane Cilento

Zero Population Growth (same as Z.P.G. above) (1972) [NR]
CAST: Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Diane Cilento, Don Gordon; DIRECTED BY: Michael Campus

I could find no obvious link with her career and Costner, but then again, I was never really good at that "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" stuff.

[infowarrior]

Don't forgwet one of my faves of his newer pictures, "Tears of the Sun"...

the infowarrior