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| | Tom Hanks spontaneously performs the rap from 'Big' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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?Big? is just about my favorite movie of all time. Definitely my favorite comedy, and on near-permanent rotation during my childhood. Tom Hanks was on the BBC?s ?Friday Night with Jonathan Ross,? this past Friday, promoting ?Angels & Demons.? Ross asked him some of the things people yell at him when they see him. Not surprisingly, he said he gets a lot of ?Wilson!? some ?Run Forest, Run? and ?Houston, we have a problem.? And he admits that he gets asked to do the ?Shimmy Shimmy CoCo Pop? rap from ?Big.? All of which he still remembers, 21 years later.
Tom also admitted the rap is random and nonsensical and has no meaning. It was something his son (presumably Colin, since he was Hanks? only son born at the time) came home with from camp. They were looking for something to throw into the movie, and Hanks already knew the song so they went with it. I always wondered where in the world that came from. Now if only he would explain to me how he supposedly went from 13 to 30 overnight, but his underwear still fit the next morning, the great lingering questions of my childhood would all be answered.
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| | Tom Hanks could have received $49 million for 'Angels & Demons' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s no secret that Tom Hanks is one of the best-paid actors around. The latest news coming out of the Angels & Demons press junket is that Hanks picked up a paycheck somewhere in the neighborhood of $29 to 49 million for the DaVinci Code sequel/prequel.
Hanks has made many people in Hollywood huge sums of money, and it seems justified that Tom would get the biggest paychecks for his services. He?s one of the few actors who gets to negotiate back-end deals, meaning that on certain films, Hanks could not only gather a paycheck just for signing on, but he could also get a percentage of the gross. The only other actors I?ve ever heard of getting that deal are Tom Cruise, Will Smith and Brad Pitt.
In any case, $49 million is an enormous sum of money for one film in which Tom is basically running around Rome. This little piece of information was mentioned in passing by a guy interviewing Tom for The Telegraph. Tom does not confirm any numbers, of course. He knows better.
What lucky charms, asks one Japanese journalist, does Mr Hanks take with him on set. ‘Lady, most mornings I go to work before the sun has come up,’ he laughs. ‘I’m lucky if I’m wearing both my shoes.’
He is dressed in a black suit and open-neck white shirt, and sporting a pair of rimless glasses. He leaps to his feet when I’m shown into the room and pumps my hand warmly. He is bigger than you would think (6ft 1in), and somewhat puffier, with flicks of grey above his familiar, protruding ears. ‘Hey, how are ya doing?’ he says, ‘Do you mind if I finish my lunch?’
It is his voice that makes him so unmistakably Tom Hanks. Goofy, but masterful; loud, yet full of cadence, it is the voice of a cartoon character and an orator all at once. Like him, it is both imposing and reassuring.
‘From my experience,’ says Daniel Craig, who worked with Hanks on Road to Perdition, ‘the more famous people are, the nicer they tend to be. Tom’s main cause on set is to put everyone at their ease. He’s full of fun and he makes everybody feel comfortable.’
So why did he sign up for a second installment? ‘Well, hey, I’m not stupid,’ he drawls. Having earned $25 million for Da Vinci, Hanks’s rumoured pay packet of between $29 million and $49 million for Angels & Demons makes him the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. In the past, he has admitted to being very canny with money. For both Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, he deferred his salary in return for a percentage of the box office. The $70 million he finally collected for Forrest Gump remains the highest combination of fees and profits in Hollywood history.
‘I’m certainly not in it for the business,’ Hanks grins when I ask him why, at 52, he has opted to work harder than ever. ‘I mean, it’s not like I need the job. I guess, if the truth be told, I didn’t want to be at the mercy of the marketplace. I don’t want to have to wait for the phone to ring to say, “You now get to create something.” As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out. Now, I’m very lucky that, as yet, that hasn’t happened, but I’m very aware that, any time now, the marketplace could say, “That’s it, we’re done with you.” If I am producing, I can create something every day and it’s a darn sight more fun than woodworking or building a stereo.’
In the past, Hanks has described himself as, deep down, a loner. ‘Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn’t feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.’
The mention of any of his four children (he has two sons, Chester, 10, and Truman, four, with Rita Wilson) makes Hanks puff up with pride. As far as he is concerned, his family is where he ends and begins. In fact, it is his responsibilities as a father, he says, that prevent him from returning to his first love, the theatre. ‘I’m not in a position where I can disappear to Broadway for 35 weeks,’ he explains. ‘My commitment to my family has to come first.’
Those who know [Tom and Rita] say that they are the perfect match; she teases him, he worships her. ‘There’s no question that Rita is his strength,’ Mike Nichols says. ‘Together, they are as open, friendly, helpful and full of love as it’s possible to be.’ It is Hanks’s rock-solid private life that feeds into his enduring Everyman appeal. ‘His interpretation of family life is reassuringly retro,’ his great friend and neighbour Steven Spielberg says. ‘It’s swimming-pools, barbecues, talk about the PTA and taking videos of the kids.’
[From The Telegraph]
Ha, Tom still sees himself as a loner. When you?re making $49 million a film, you can buy as many best friends as you want! No, really, I actually have no problems with Hanks picking up enormous paychecks. He?s one of the few actors that I truly think deserves the money. He always comes across as a genuinely nice guy, and he shouldn?t be penalized for being a smart businessman.
Here?s Tom at the ?Angels & Demons? Rome premiere yesterday. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .
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| | Julia Roberts was well prepared | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Julia Roberts honored Tom Hanks at the Film Society of Lincoln Center event by saying “fuck” a lot of times and bemoaning his recent string of confusing movies. Good times.
“Alright well, it’s late and I’m paying my babysitter overtime and I have to pee,” she began. “So Tom, everybody fucking likes you. All my bits are gone. Listen, I had lunch today with Rita [Wilson, Hanks' wife], and her tits were here [motioned high] and her waist was here [motioned small] and her ass was like that [motioned high], so what can I tell you that’s new? Tom Hanks, what the fuck?”
She then went on to say she’s seen most of Hanks’ films except That Thing (You Do). I love the Cohen brothers, but the hair Tom [in 2004's Ladykillers], I didn’t even know what the fuck that movie was about!” Of 2004’s The Terminal, she cracked, “You in the airport with the accent? It was a pass for me. Airport? Were you just an immigrant lost? I didn’t know. I love you, and I didn’t know what to do, really. God, I?m wearing the same fucking dress tonight as your publicist!”
“Listen, I’ve got to get home. But this much we know … I will say this: Tom Hanks, I love you.”
This is like the speech my ex-girlfriend gave at my graduation dinner. Except, instead of ending with “I love you,” it ended with her shoving a two month old baby in my face and telling me “you’re a daddy” and instead of me laughing, I ran away to Florida and changed my name.
[Us]
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| | Needed More Of The F-Word | | Added 15 years ago | Source: dListed |
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There's always got to be a drunk ass foul-mouthed bitch at every party and at last night's tribute to Tom Hanks by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Julia Roberts was that ho. Everyone embrace a fellow drunktardian into our club.
When it was Julia's turn to speak about Tom, she loaded her cannon with fuck bombs and aimed it at the audience. Julia's speech sounds like gorgeous music to my ears: (read it in a slurry, burpy voice) "Alright well, it's late and I'm paying my babysitter overtime and I have to pee. So Tom, everybody fucking likes you. All my bits are gone. Listen, I had lunch today with Rita, and her tits were here [motioned high] and her waist was here [motioned small] and her ass was like that [motioned high], so what can I tell you that's new? Tom Hanks, what the fuck?"
Julia the went on to talk about Tom's illustrous film career, "I love the Cohen brothers, but the hair Tom [in 2004's Ladykillers], I didn't even know what the fuck that movie was about! "You in the airport with the accent (she's talking about Terminal)? It was a pass for me. Airport? Were you just an immigrant lost? I didn't know. I love you, and I didn't know what to do, really. God, I?m wearing the same fucking dress tonight as your publicist! Listen, I've got to get home. But this much we know ... I will say this: Tom Hanks, I love you."
Before falling off the edge of the stage in a drunken stupor, Julia told the audience, "It's so dark out there, I feel like I?m in space. Thank you, whoever just made it light. J.J. Abrams, are you here?"
Julia Roberts is awesome for that. When did Julia Roberts become my auntie giving an impromptu speech about how much she loves her pet ferrett at Thanksgiving dinner after downing a whole box of Franzia? I don't know if that made any sense, because I think I got contact drunk after reading Julia's rant.
You know that after she got home, she crawled into bed with her kids and practically suffocated them with her hot booze bref kisses! She slobbered on them and said, "I luuuuvz youuuz sooo soo mu-uuuch." I used to love when my mom did that.
Seriously, Julia needs to do shit like this more often!
Here's some of the hos who got to witness Julia's ridiculousness last night.
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| | Julia Roberts gives Tom Hanks an obscenity-filled tribute | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When she was first becoming a huge movie star, Julia Roberts famously described herself as ?somewhere between a chick and a broad?. The original quote was, ?I?m too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn?t call myself a woman. I?d say I?m somewhere between a chick and a broad.? Once a broad, always a broad. Julia?s never really been known as obscene, but she got down and dirty during a tribute to Tom Hanks Monday night. Julia not only used the f-bomb several times, she talked graphically about Rita Wilson?s body in an obscene yet complimentary way. Reading Julia?s comments, I tend to think she might have had a few too many glasses of wine. Or maybe that?s the way she really talks, and she was just letting it all hang out:
Get Julia Roberts a bar of soap!
At a Film Society of Lincoln Center event honoring Tom Hanks in NYC Monday, the Duplicity star, 41, dropped the F-bomb several times.
“Alright well, it’s late and I’m paying my babysitter overtime and I have to pee,” she began. “So Tom, everybody f—–g likes you. All my bits are gone. Listen, I had lunch today with Rita [Wilson, Hanks' wife], and her t–s were here [motioned high] and her waist was here [motioned small] and her a– was like that [motioned high], so what can I tell you that’s new? Tom Hanks, what the f–k?”
Audience members - including Charlize Theron - busted up with laughter.
She then went on to say she’s seen most of Hanks’ films except That Thing (You Do). I love the Cohen brothers, but the hair Tom [in 2004's Ladykillers], I didn’t even know what the f–k that movie was about!” Of 2004’s The Terminal, she cracked, “You in the airport with the accent? It was a pass for me. Airport? Were you just an immigrant lost? I didn’t know. I love you, and I didn’t know what to do, really. God, I?m wearing the same f—–g dress tonight as your publicist!”
The audience again laughed. “Listen, I’ve got to get home. But this much we know … I will say this: Tom Hanks, I love you.”
Roberts then lost her train of thought. “It’s so dark out there, I feel like I?m in space,” she said as an audience member held up their cell phone. “Thank you, whoever just made it light. [Lost creator] J.J. Abrams, are you here?”
Before exiting the stage, she reiterated to Hanks how much she loved him.
From US Weekly
Doesn?t she sound drunk? Maybe she was just punch-drunk, too tired or jet-lagged or something. In any case, I doubt Tom was offended. I actually cuss like a sailor in my real life, and some days it takes real effort not to type in a string of obscenities when I?m writing about someone like Jessica Simpson or Paris Hilton. And Julia?s totally right about The Terminal. That film was horrible (mainly because of Catherine Zeta-Jones, not Hanks), and I wouldn?t recommend it to anyone.
Julia Roberts is shown last night at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Gala Tribute Honoring Tom Hanks. Also shown are Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Ron Howard, Sally Field, Glenn Close, Steven Spielberg, Ed Burns, Christy Turlington, Charlize Theron, Jeremy Irons, Adrien Brody, and Tom Hanks’ son, Colin Hanks. Credit: Fame Pictures and WENN.com
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| | Tom Hanks clarifies his anti-Mormon comments | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week we reported on Tom Hanks? comments at the premiere of Big Love. Some enterprising journalist asked Hanks his opinion of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that basically banned gay marriage in the state. Hanks mouthed off in a very atypical way, calling Prop 8 ?un-American?. The Church of Latter-Day Saints fired back at Hanks, and now Hanks has offered up what I can only describe as a lukewarm non-apology apology to Mormons. It sounds like he?s basically saying, ?I used the wrong word, but whatever.? People magazine has the exclusive details.
Tom Hanks is rethinking his comments about Mormons who supported Proposition 8.
Last week, the star, who is an executive producer for HBO’s controversial series Big Love about a group of polygamist Mormons, spoke out about the religious group’s involvement in passing the California law, which bans same-sex marriage.
“The truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen,” Hanks said at the show’s premiere in Los Angeles last Wednesday. “There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American, and I am one of them.”
A spokesperson for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Kim Farah, took offense at Hanks’s comments, telling FOX News, “Expressing an opinion in a free and democratic society is as American as it gets.”
Now, in a exclusive statement to PEOPLE through his representative Leslee Dart, Hanks is softening his stance.
?Last week, I labeled members of the Mormon church who supported California’s Proposition 8 as “un-American.” I believe Proposition 8 is counter to the promise of our Constitution; it is codified discrimination. But everyone has a right to vote their conscience ? nothing could be more American. To say members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who contributed to Proposition 8 are “un-American” creates more division when the time calls for respectful disagreement. No one should use “un- American” lightly or in haste. I did. I should not have. Sincerely, Tom Hanks?
From People Magazine
I forgive Hanks both for his ?un-American? comment and for his slight back-down. It was the wrong word to use, even if many people understood what he was saying. I took his original comments to mean that codified discrimination was un-American, not that Mormons or being vocally or financially anti-gay was un-American. That version was lost on a lot of people, so Hanks just seems to be clarifying his words, but not changing his stance. I?m sure some will disagree, but I think this was a classy way to end the drama.
Tom Cruise is shown at Obama’s inauguration celebration on 1/18/09. Credit: Newscom
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| | Tom Hanks speaks out against Mormon support of Prop 8 | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Tom Hanks has come out in full-force for gay rights, adding his name to the list of pro-gay-marriage celebs like Charlize Theron, Ellen DeGeneres, Brad Pitt and Anne Hathaway. At the premiere for HBO?s new season of Big Love (Did you know Hanks executive produced that show? I didn?t.), Hanks mouthed off to a Fox News columnists about how much he hates that the Mormon Church gave so much money to push Prop 8 through. He?s actually really eloquent about the issue.
We didn’t know he had it in him! The normally mild-mannered Tom Hanks had some surprisingly strong words for the Mormon [Church] on Wednesday.
The executive producer of HBO’s drama about polygamy, Big Love, called parts of the church ‘un-American’ for supporting Prop 8. “The truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church,” he told Fox News’s Poptarts column at the show’s premiere party, “and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen.?
?There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American and I am one of them,” the star said of the anti gay-marriage law. “I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here’s what happens now.?
“A little bit of light can be shed and people can see who’s responsible and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting constitution and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So lets have faith in not only the American, but Californian constitutional process.?
From OK! Magazine
If Tom Hanks is against you, you need to rethink your position. Hanks is like the Walter Cronkite of this generation - he represents the middle-of-the-road, the lovable centrist in all of us. It?s interesting (to me) that most pro-gay-marriage Californians have absolute faith that the California courts will overturn Prop 8. I usually don?t go in for ?activist judge? conspiracy theories, but there?s certainly a possibility that the courts won?t overturn Prop 8. Perhaps all of these celebrities should put their money where their mouths are, and pay for a real media campaign to educate and inform about gay marriage.
Tom Cruise is shown on 1/14/09 at the premiere of “Big Love.” Credit: WENN
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