Word: apollos
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...ought to be enough that Hanks is a solid, supple actor who not only takes ornery subjects (AIDS, Vietnam, the U.S. space program) and turns them into hits (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13), but also gives almost all his movies a moral center. In this age of the outlaw, he defines the ideal norm: he is our best us on our worst day, soldiering on through heartbreak. In Saving Private Ryan, for which he may earn his third Oscar as the tough, paternal Captain Miller, Hanks has a moment when the burden of leadership in war has nearly broken...
...real home--with his wife, actress Rita Wilson, and their two kids--is in west L.A., down the road from Spielberg's. But the star hasn't forgotten his dark roots. "Tom came from a hard place, and he remembers that," says Brian Grazer, producer of Splash and Apollo 13. The two men used to live near each other in a gated community on the Pacific. "I remember Tom sitting on the beach, holding the sand tight in his fist and saying, 'I can't believe this is my place...
...With brother Orestes, advised by important oracle, Apollo...
...John Young, who flew in Apollo 10 and 16 and on shuttle Columbia with...
...after the deaths of DeShaun R. Hill and Harvard C. Nabrit Stephens, two members of the class of 1999 who were killed in a car accident in the summer of 1997, members of BSA agreed that the Apollo celebration could best commemorate their lives...