As far as some folks are concerned, a little too cool and calm these days. When Willis and Moore set up home in the mountain hamlet of Hailey in the late '80s, they quickly ingratiated themselves with the locals. Willis bought the Liberty cinema and refurbished it with Bolivian rosewood panels and love seats in the balconies. He bought Shorty's Diner and turned the '50s-style cafe into a hugely popular lunch spot. A block away, he bought The Mint nightclub for $200,000 and put $1.5 million into renovations -- including a hi-tech sound system and top-of-the-line pool tables. Crowds came from nearby Ketchum and Sun Valley, often hobnobbing with Willis himself. "He loved to smoke cigars and party there," says one local restaurant owner. "He was perfectly content playing deejay and hanging out in his office." No longer. After separating from Moore, Willis closed Shorty's and The Mint. In the year it took him to sell the diner, complains Wayne Adair, news editor of the local Wood River Journal, "there was nowhere to eat breakfast in Hailey." Willis's theater is still running, but The Mint, open now only for an occasional private party, is most often dark, its sidewalk choked with weeds. "I think Bruce just kind of slammed the door on everything here after he and Demi hit the skids," says a manager at a local Mexican restaurant. "The consensus is that people wish he'd just sell The Mint to somebody who'd run it like a business rather than a hobby," says Adair. "Since the big publicity flare-up around the separation," he adds, "Bruce has just kind of disappeared into the woodwork."

Make that into a whirlwind, worldwide romance. Born on a U.S. military base in West Germany to David Willis, a retired welder who lives in New Jersey, and Marlene, who lives in California (they divorced in 1971), Bruce moved to Carneys Point, N.J., when he was 2. But he has never lost his feeling for far-off lands. An original investor in Planet Hollywood (which filed for bankruptcy last October but continues to operate while reorganizing), Willis has for years taken his band, the Accelerators, to play in the movie-themed clubs in Europe. But these days it is less his passion for performing that draws him abroad than his growing romance with Bravo. Whether hunting for real estate in Madrid (they were checking out million-dollar villas in the tony La Moraleja area last month) or deejaying '60s songs at a Planet Hollywood in Munich, says a close friend of Bravo's, "I get the impression he can't live without her."