For two weeks in March, at an abandoned chemical warehouse in Lviv, we taught civilian volunteers how to defend themselves against the Russian invaders.
In early March, a few days after Russia's multifront invasion of Ukraine, I joined a small group traveling to Lviv to help advise and train a city defense force of local volunteers. I'd gotten on the plane there mostly thinking I was going as a journalist. Once we landed I knew that one more writer looking for a story was the last thing Ukraine needed. My friends, though, sought a third trainer. So I said I'd do it. They didn't pressure me. The moment did. Mold-breaking musician and actor Anthony Ramos is making his move. But what moves you? Today's zipper-front sweatshirts won't make you look like an obnoxious tech bro—so long as you pick the right one. Ben Affleck is a legit American treasure, a square-jawed, cleft-chinned heartthrob who can really act (and write, and direct, and smoke dejectedly). Affleck's done it all in his thirty-year career: taking home a Best Screenplay Oscar in his mid-twenties, going on to direct a Best Picture winner, patting J-Lo's butt in the "Jenny On The Block" video and re-patting for the paparazzi twenty years later. He's grown up before our eyes, from goateed '90s indie-movie boy to the brooding middle-aged cuckold in the just-released Deep Water, and we believe he's worthy of celebration. So we here at Esquire have taken it upon ourselves to rank his best movies. Bruce Willis is one of the coolest men Hollywood has ever produced. There is a confidence and effortlessness to how he carries himself, how he dresses, and how he wears a baseball cap that makes other men look at Willis and think: I want to be like that guy. These photos from the last several decades demonstrate that effortless cool. The other aspect of Willis fueling this cool factor—and it's the other self-evident truth—is that he's appeared in some excellent movies, many of which have incredible repeat value. Die Hard. Pulp Fiction. Armageddon. 12 Monkeys. The Sixth Sense. Moonrise Kingdom. To name but a few. On March 30, 2022, Willis's daughter, Rumer, announced that her dad was suffering from aphasia, a condition affecting his cognitive abilities and that he would be stepping away from acting. It's a heartbreaking announcement, and we wish Willis all the good health in the world. The former baseball god didn't want to talk. And in 1966, writer Gay Talese didn't need him to. |
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