Bruce Willis and Halle Berry: Less Than Perfect

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 15, 2007 -- More than all these things, though, Estevez is also disarmingly blunt. �Nobody stops working and expressing themselves artistically by choice,� he states with regards to his de facto hiatus. �I think that I had done probably one too many sequels, and I think that this is a very cruel and unforgiving business.�

�I also think that where we arrive on any particular given day in our lives is the sum total of our choices, all of us,� Estevez continues. �And I made some bad ones, professionally speaking. Truly, I was doing whatever I needed to do to keep the wolves on the other side of the door.�

�I cashed in my pension fund, I sold artwork � some of which had been gifted to me. I was signing trading cards with my likeness on them, just to make a house payment. So it was pretty bleak.�

If Hollywood loves to chew up and spit out its own, it also loves its comebacks, and Bobby pretty much amounted to that for Estevez. Though it grossed only $11.2 million domestically, the film garnered Best Motion Picture - Drama and Best Ensemble Acting award nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and SAG, respectively. With its celebrity top-heavy cast, the film should settle into a nice long rental run when it hits DVD tomorrow.

Written and directed with a palpably unadorned romanticism, the movie revisits the night in 1968 that Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, on the eve of his presidential primary victory in California. Telling the story of workers, guests and low-level Kennedy volunteers there all that day beforehand, it�s stuffed with a star-studded ensemble cast of almost two dozen actors that includes Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, Heather Graham, William H. Macy, Freddy Rodriguez, Laurence Fishburne, Lindsay Lohan, Nick Cannon, Christian Slater, Ashton Kutcher, Elijah Wood and Helen Hunt, as well as Estevez himself and his father, Martin Sheen. Estevez was only six years old when RFK was shot and killed in 1968, capping a turbulent decade of assassinations of key political and cultural figures, but he still remembers its tremendous effect on his grandmother, who broke down weeping at the news. He also remembers waking up his father and telling him, and, a year later, visiting the Ambassador Hotel with his dad, who pointed out the narrow kitchen pantry were Kennedy was slain and explained it as hallowed ground. Estevez tried to fully understand, but couldn�t.