Die Hard

2022 - 12 - 17

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Aaron Gate relives his worst ever cycling crash and confirms that Die ... (Stuff.co.nz)

Aaron Gate made his at the Commonwealth Games this year and is hoping that 2023 will be just as big with his Black Spokes team.

I’d say it was the worst one too to be fair. There was pretty big damage to the body with that one and even bigger damage to the pride. They are still hanging in the dining room here, but if I get back to NZ at all, I’ll have to hand them to mum for safe keeping. Our first year is going to be a pretty difficult one, if nothing else, just with the politics involved for where the starts go. Seeing him racing the Tour de France in the national champs jersey was pretty cool and something that was ingrained in my childhood. The fact that it’s New Zealand’s first ever genuine professional cycling team is quite surreal and it’s something I would have only dreamed about just a couple of years ago.

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The “knucklehead” career decision that Bruce Willis still regrets (Far Out Magazine)

From 'Die Hard' to 'Pulp Fiction', Bruce Willis has enjoyed a stellar career. However, there is one iconic film that he rejected, and he greatly regrets it.

In 1996, during an interview with The New York Times, Willis explained that he just didn’t understand the movie when he first read the script. The regret might be compounded because he also starred in one of 1990’s biggest disappointments, Brian De Palma’s The Bonfire of the Vanities. Famously, in 1990, Willis starred in one of the biggest hits of the year, Die Hard 2, but he also had the chance to be in the year’s highest-grossing film, Jerry Zucker’s fantasy romance, Ghost. If not McLane, Willis is hailed for the character of Butch Coolidge in 1994’s Pulp Fiction, a performance credited with ultimately saving his faltering career. The condition seriously affects the sufferer’s ability to communicate in both the verbal and written sense, restrictions that make the job of an actor near-impossible. Despite having a string of notable titles to his name, for Willis, there is one that got away.

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