Word: hankses
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In the New Yorker story, Hanks also did not rule out a future campaign for the presidency. Now he does. "I'm not running for President of the United States. I'm an actor who makes movies, and that's how I was answering the questions." His anguish turns briefly...
Mr. Nice Guy does not easily wear the albatross of eminence. He may joke about it: "I'm powerful enough now to be taken seriously," he says, snapping his fingers like a born Hollywood sharpie. "Plenty of people take my phone calls!" He can also get plaintive: "Me famous?" he...
On the set Hanks relaxes in a comfortable but not lavish silver Airstream trailer. (Of another star's trailer, he jokes, "John Travolta's is sorta like the Ritz Carlton. I wouldn't ever want to leave.") His real home--with his wife, actress Rita Wilson, and their two kids...
As the kid from Concord, Calif., Tom Hanks didn't have a place. His parents separated when he was five, and he followed his chef father from job to job. "Basically he ran the kitchen in union dinner houses," Tom recalls. "Places with a net-and-nautical theme, with bamboo...
A kid on the move--an Army brat or cook's son--typically either crawls into a shell or finds ways to cope with new classmates each school year. Hanks coped, adapted and later found a home in the impromptu family that is any company of actors. "To me it...