"A MAN WHO FOUGHT IN World War Two made a Christmas movie called It’s A Wonderful Life … our Christmas movie is Die Hard. It’s got to say something about what is happening with our culture.” No, not Billy Graham or the Archbishop of Canterbury, but John Mc-Tiernan — the guy who directed Die Hard.
Nick de Semlyen quotes that line in , his gossipy account of the hunks and lunks who dominated Hollywood cinema in the 80s and, I think Chuck Norris’s Colonel James Braddock could justifiably call him .
