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" While in Paris, Bruce Willis recently received the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, which is not something from Harry Potter but an actual award from the French government, which he accepted graciously, saying, &amp;quot;I always feel at home when I&amp;#039;m in Paris and when I&amp;#039;m in France. I feel very comfortable here and always look forward to coming back.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s hard not to point out the irony that Willis was accepting the award while promoting A Good Day to Die Hard, the latest in the action franchise, and that we&amp;#039;re pretty sure John McClane (b. May 23, 1955 in Plainfield, New Jersey) would resolutely not feel comfortable or at home in the City of Lights. There are some things so deeply American that you can&amp;#039;t imagine them being so heartily embraced by other Western countries, no matter the French taste for genre movies. One of those things is &amp;quot;Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.&amp;quot; Yet here we are. [The Hollywood Reporter] Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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