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'Two men agree that one will tell only the truth, the other only lies. Both get into terrible messes'

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Essay: Death is hard, but there's life in it

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Opinions on the end of the 11-year marriage of Hollywood's golden couple

End of the Bruce and Demi show

The picture-perfect marriage that Demi Moore and Bruce Willis presented to the world has ended. Was it professional rivalry, a clash of egos or something darker - the ghosts of their childhoods returning to haunt them? And should we care?

Comedy: There's nowt as queer as Hill folk

To fill the spare time on his recently-completed three-month national tour, Harry Hill bought the script of Pulp Fiction and set about acting it out and filming it with a camcorder. "I was Bruce Willis," he recalls. "The road manager and the sound man were in it as well - there were some painful moments. It is virtually unwatchable."

BOOKS: Refuting Bruce Willis

PROJECTIONS 8 eds John Boorman and Walter Donahue, Faber pounds 12.99

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so what if bruce willis is a rollerblader?

If you're cool, you roller-skate. Quaddies are in, in-liners are out. Olivia Stewart-Liberty explains

Bruce's price is right

With the hedonistic Hollywood producer Don Simpson dead after a lifetime of drugs, sex, and more drugs, it was thought that Hollywood might finally consider taming its excesses. That doesn't mean that the town has to be ruthless in its frugality, mind. Who's going to be bothered about the occasional fleet of limousines or slap-up lunch? Or, for that matter, the odd pounds 24m cheque doled out to a stocky, balding middle-aged man with a paunch?

ARTS: CINEMA In defence of Bruce Willis

There are many reasons to hate the star of `Twelve Monkeys'. But David Thomson can't help warming to an actor who defies expectations

Bruce, Terry and Brad's excellent adventure

THE CRITICS: Film

CINEMA / Blood and guts in the diner

LEWD, bad and dangerous to view, Quentin Tarantino is the least categorisable, most troubling director in cinema today - too talented to dismiss, too volatile to embrace. The hype that greets his every move hardens you against him; and yet his films, for all their gleeful triviality and wanton violence, have a way of winning you over.

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