Word: hankses
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The songs on That Thing You Do! are faithful parodies: tight, with short verses and catchy tunes. Listen to Hanks describe the That Thing You Do! title tune, written by 28-year-old Adam Schlesinger: "There's a driving rhythm, and as it goes into the second chorus the entire...
The '64 Beatles, cuddly and chart busting, are the inspiration for Hanks' Wonders. The later Beatles, of Sgt. Pepper and The White Album, are fodder for Rutle in chief Neil Innes, who for Archaeology composed such cheery pastiches as "You got lonely-phobia / And I only hope ya / Get better...
The Rutles album has an advantage over the CDs from Grace of My Heart and That Thing You Do!: it doesn't have to support a movie narrative. The Hanks and Anders films have big problems as nostalgic history and satisfying dramas. But the music is first-class evocation. The...
Moviegoers have been singing Tom Hanks' tune for most of the '90s. A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Toy Story--each movie has been a surprise hit, proof of Hanks' intelligence, craft and lopsided likability. Now Hollywood wonders, What can the guy do...
This. Hanks' feature-film debut as writer-director, That Thing You Do!, tries to infuse his personality in a story set in a time of innocence: small towns, state fairs, the modest dreams of being in a band and kissing the lead singer's pretty girlfriend. But the transplant doesn...