Welcome to the party, pal.
“Nice memories,” VelJohnson told Slater of his time making the original film.
“It was my first big film that I was in.
Reginald VelJohnson and Emma Slater on ‘Dancing With the Stars’.ABC
It was an experience Ill never forget.
[Willis] was very kind to me in my first major role.
I thanked him for that, I always will.”
Reginald VelJohnson in ‘Die Hard’.20th Century Fox/Everett
“If you think I’m going out on double elimination, then ‘yippee-ki-yay mother f–er.”
The actor portrayed LAPD officer Al Powell in both 1988’sDie Hardand 1990’sDie Hard 2.
As he and Slater delivered their paso doble, money floated around them in the ballroom.
Emma Slater and Reginald VelJohnson on ‘Dancing With the Stars’.ABC
He ended the number delivering Willis’s dialogue, “Welcome to the party, pal.”
In fact,Die Hardcomposer Michael Kamen reportedly was inspired to use the song because of the Kubrick film.
“Ode to Joy” is the fourth and final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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