Die Hard (film series) film would ever get made. The character John McClane also appears in the 1993 film "Loaded Weapon 1", which is also portrayed by Bruce Willis, in a brighter version. "Die Hard" is adapted from the 1979 novel "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp. "Die Hard 2" was adapted from the 1987 novel "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager. "Die Hard with a Vengeance" was adapted from a script called "Simon Says" by Jonathan Hensleigh, which was also briefly considered to become the script for "Lethal Weapon 4". The hook in Hensleigh's screenplay that captured the attention of director John McTiernan was
Senate career of John McCain, 2001–2014 There was some talk of Representative Jeff Flake mounting a Republican primary challenge against McCain; Stephen Moore, president of the ideologically oriented Club for Growth (which attempts to defeat those it considers Republican in Name Only), led talk for the prospect, saying "Our members loathe John McCain." Flake decided not to do it, later saying "I would have been whipped." In the general election McCain had his biggest margin of victory yet, garnering 77 percent of the vote against little-known Democrat Stuart Starky, an eighth grade math teacher whom "The Arizona Republic" termed a "sacrificial lamb". Exit polls showed that