Word: hankses
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But I wasn't the first to fail to find the real life analogue of Sherman McCoy. Hollywood, after all, settled on Tom Hanks, America's icon of decency, to play the pathetic McCoy.
Among the guests: John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Streisand's mother, songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (the only invitees who knew the wedding date well in advance; all others were invited on short notice over the phone), "Tootsie" director Sidney Pollack, designer...
So, opening just before Memorial Day, exactly a year after The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is another really big lizard movie, Godzilla. This updating of the old Japanese monster series, by the Independence Day team, has been teased so cannily ("Size Does Matter") that now industry folk have only one...
And finally you go for as much ancillary business as seems apt. There will be hundreds of Godzilla spin-offs. But for Private Ryan, DreamWorks canceled a G.I. Joe action figure modeled on Hanks. Maybe the muscles were too big.
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (July 24). Tom Hanks, Hollywood's most improbably reliable box-office lure, hasn't starred in a film since 1995, so it's nice that his friend Steven Spielberg gave him this chance for a comeback, in a World War II G.I. drama with Matt Damon. The...