Filed under: Humor, iLife, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends
Bruce Willis iChats
Our blog buddies over at Engadget put us onto this funny little tidbit. Apparently annoyed at some fans who doubted his identity (as "Walter B") while trolling a discussion forum on his forthcoming movie, Mr. Die Hard put up rather than shut up. Challenged to prove his identity Bruce Willis offered to video iChat one of the biggest doubters, who duly posted the evidence for everyone to see. Well it's good to see that when he's not saving the planet from terrorists, asteroids, or other baddies, Willis is willing to defend his artistic integrity in online forums with his Mac.
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Alex said 3:43PM on 5-13-2007
is it me, or does the guy chatting with bruce look like sylar?
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Mat Lu said 3:53PM on 5-13-2007
@1: Oh no, Bruce's powers are going to be stolen!
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Justin said 10:31PM on 5-13-2007
How does this imply that he has a mac? Can't a windows user with a webcam videochat to someone on ichat? I've done it before.
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Mark Grimes said 1:21AM on 5-14-2007
Justin -- Because if you read the story rather than skimmed it, you'd see that Bruce actually specifically identifies the capability as iChat (several times in the same post - even refers to his IM address as his "iChat address") which other OS users simply don't do. It's quite clear he's a Mac user. (See "Wait just a second" by Walter B, May 9th, 2007)
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Carl Trimble said 9:03AM on 5-14-2007
Rather than Bruce Willis, I am more impressed that they actually got iChat to work with video. I can never get it working through firewalls and we are forced to use skype instead.
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Rik123 said 10:44AM on 5-14-2007
Looks like a photoshopped image.
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sam said 1:18PM on 5-14-2007
"How does this imply that he has a mac?"
Because only poor people use PCs.
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Valebant said 4:27PM on 5-14-2007
It is NOT photoshopped. I talked to Mr. Willis myself for 5-10 minutes on iChat AV. To my knowledge he talked to about 3-4 people on iChat before he asked me if there was a way to retract his mac.com address he had posted. I told him it'd be best to just ditch it if feasible. Crazy. Surreal. True.
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Justin said 1:37PM on 5-19-2007
Mark: Actually, I did read the story, I just didn't follow the link to the engadget story, which explains the iChat offer in further detail.
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Lenny Valachová said 4:06PM on 7-10-2007
Itś my Mr. Willis, Lenny Valachová from Prag
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Lenny Valachová said 6:43AM on 7-28-2007
All the world, for you. Lenny
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Candice said 12:03AM on 8-01-2007
That's fucking hilarious. People make comments about celebrities thinking they are better and this guy(Bruce Willis) decides to chat with you guys for a bit and people start chastizing him for it! What the fuck. Even if it was to draw more attention to the fourth Die Hard coming out(which was great) who gives a shit, you got to talk to Bruce Willis right?
I don't really see the problem here.
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