Tom Hanks

[Ginger]

Oct 19, 2017 8:57:44 GMT -4 ratscabies said:

I have read 2 so far (I am reading like 5 books at once, which is weird for me).

The first is about two longtime friends hooking up, the second is about a WWII vet on Christmas Eve 10 years after being sent home, sorta half Saving Private Ryan, half A Christmas Story.

I have enjoyed both. It is nice to see his typewriter fetish isn't just about the gear!

That WW II one sounds like a movie he would star in. I wonder if he had a movie idea that never got off the ground and turned it into a story instead.

[luminosa]

Oct 19, 2017 12:20:15 GMT -4 Ginger said:

Oct 19, 2017 8:57:44 GMT -4 ratscabies said:

I have read 2 so far (I am reading like 5 books at once, which is weird for me).

The first is about two longtime friends hooking up, the second is about a WWII vet on Christmas Eve 10 years after being sent home, sorta half Saving Private Ryan, half A Christmas Story.

I have enjoyed both. It is nice to see his typewriter fetish isn't just about the gear!

That WW II one sounds like a movie he would star in. I wonder if he had a movie idea that never got off the ground and turned it into a story instead.

Also, I never realized Til recently that he also wrote That Thing You Do. I thought he just directed and co-starred. I think that is a highly underrated movie.

[scarlet]

That Thing You Do.

That's in my Top 10 of all-time. I could watch this scene every day and never tire of it:

link

[proper stranger]

Oct 19, 2017 12:53:04 GMT -4 scarlet said:

That Thing You Do.

That's in my Top 10 of all-time. I could watch this scene every day and never tire of it:

link

I was really hoping the link would be to that scene...and it was! Makes me smile so much every time I see it.

[ratscabies]

The scene where Rita Wilson realizes the drummer is too drunk to sleep with her? That is the beginning of my undying love for her.

I made my first record in high school. The first time I heard myself on the radio, it was cool, but since I played everything myself, no one riled me up like that.

One night, my folk singer buddy and I were driving back to Akron from New York. As we got close to home, the NPR station at Kent State came into range, and they used to play folk music at night. When we turned it on, there was a high chord on a synth pad and a guitar riff. Buddy says, "This sounds familiar..."

"That's because it's you, you dumbass," I replied. It was a song from the last album we did together at my studio.

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Oct 18, 2017 20:52:30 GMT -4 scarlet said:

Oct 18, 2017 18:24:01 GMT -4 tazmin said:

“There’s no crying in baseball!”

One of my all-time favorite movie quotes.

I was actually surprised, looking it up, that he only has 5 Oscar noms. It feels like he's been in the conversation so many times I thought he had at least 8 or 9.

I know it's weird, because he has won 2 Oscars, but I honestly think he's a very underrated actor. I feel like people think Forrest Gump was a fluke, and it was more than 20 years ago.

[Carolina]

Oct 19, 2017 18:34:58 GMT -4 @imeldamarcos said:

Oct 18, 2017 20:52:30 GMT -4 scarlet said:

One of my all-time favorite movie quotes.

I was actually surprised, looking it up, that he only has 5 Oscar noms. It feels like he's been in the conversation so many times I thought he had at least 8 or 9.

I know it's weird, because he has won 2 Oscars, but I honestly think he's a very underrated actor. I feel like people think Forrest Gump was a fluke, and it was more than 20 years ago.

ITA. Tom a)makes it look easy and b)often plays everyman type characters which I think leads him to getting less credit than he deserves. He's never ACTING in his roles, The Ladykillers excepted. Just think of Castaway. It was Tom and only Tom onscreen for most of the film with no one to bounce off of but a volleyball and he was tremendous.

[luminosa]

I am learning through this thread that I may be Tom Hanks #1 fan. Anyone love Volunteers? With John. Andy? He's soooo funny in it. I think that's where he met Rita.

[forever1267]

I got very lucky to get to visit the set of That Thing You Do! one night in downtown Los Angeles, when my then roommate was an extra, playing the drummer (he doesn't play drums) in one of the competing bands, when the Oneders Wonders perform in a contest in "Pittsburgh".

I arrived to pick up my roommate, and somehow the janitor of the downtown theater let me in, so I got to watch in the background as a cast of Future Familiar Faces played that insanely catchy title song several times, and watch Tom Hanks look like he was having a ball directing this sequence.

And I was standing in that indoor theater at one point when Steve Zahn, Tom Everett Scott, Peter Gallagher, Ethan Embry and Liv Tyler all walked right past me to their trailers, after the night was called.

(My roommate also played a security guard when the Oneders Wonders play an outdoor festival [At L A Fairplex in Pomona, California]).


Those are the moments I DO wish we had camera phones back then.





Hanks also should have won his 3rd Oscar for Castaway, but lost to Russell Crowe for Gladiator, who should have beaten Kevin Spacey in American Beauty for Crowe's phenomenal work in The Insider. And so Oscar goes.....

[mrspickles]

Oct 19, 2017 19:35:08 GMT -4 luminosa said:

I am learning through this thread that I may be Tom Hanks #1 fan. Anyone love Volunteers? With John. Andy? He's soooo funny in it. I think that's where he met Rita.

I've been on board the Hanks train since Bachelor Party!