Bruce Is a Blast for Feminists

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TO THE movies last weekend, and it didn't take me long to choose between the latest Hungarian art-house offering, Taxidermia, and Die Hard 4.0. I have always been a fan of the Die Hard films, which send themselves up more than James Bond and don't share the Bond movies' dreary technophilia.

Cars, trains and planes exist to be blown up in Bruce Willis's long-running series, whose most memorable image is the actor, streaked with grime, emerging from smoke and rubble. He is as long- suffering as a cartoon character, and his parodic masculinity is much more appealing than other action heroes Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise come to mind who take themselves much too seriously.

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