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...Forrest Gump...
...subject more skillfully than Francis Ford Coppola had in Apocalypse Now or Oliver Stone had in Platoon - or more thoroughly than in PBS's 11-hour 1983 documentary history. In 1994, however, Hanks brought to the screen the impact of Vietnam on his generation in the tragicomic Forrest Gump. While the role earned him an Academy Award, Gump hardly epitomized the brutal nature of Vietnam, about which reporter Michael Herr had written so devastatingly in Dispatches. (See the top 10 fiction books...
After completing his sophomore year at Harvard, Gillespie embarked on his own Forrest Gump-like trek across America. Instead of packing up his things and boarding a plane to his hometown of Wilmette, Illinois, Gillespie and two friends decided to set off on a two-week, 1,000 mile plus bike trip back home from school. They paced about 90 miles a day through six states on mostly side roads, starting at 6 a.m. every morning and riding until dark with lunch breaks for peanut butter and honey sandwiches...
...Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion agreed that the firefighters had suffered discrimination but took a softer tone, avoiding direct criticism of Sotomayor and her colleagues. "I found the Kennedy opinion really consciously restrained," says Tom Goldstein, co-chair of the Supreme Court practice at Akin Gump. "He pulled back in order to minimize the way this case focuses on her." Chief Justice John Roberts, who Goldstein says "has a real interest in depoliticizing the court," joined with Kennedy. (Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model...
...more than $100 million - more than Will Smith (12) and Julia Roberts and Adam Sandler (10 each); only Tom Cruise can match that haul. But Hanks' films usually don't open with a big bang; audiences discover them over time, and by the end, he has a Forrest Gump. At 52, Hanks is not the ideal age for a teen kid's movie icon; his one starring role since Da Vinci, in Charlie Wilson's War, brought in only $65 million. So Hanks should probably be happy with the huge salary he earned for making Angels, for the fact that...