Word: hankses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Now go to the Man; you will find that even Tom Hanks likes Tom Hanks. "I think I'm a very pleasant person," he says. "I am. I'm a sunny individual. I think I can work with just about everybody. But this is a pretty protective atmosphere we're...
If Hanks doesn't squeak, he does squawk on the set. "For an Everyman," Spielberg says, "he's pretty damned opinionated." He can impose his will, and not just through star power. The week before Private Ryan was to begin shooting, Hanks and the film's squad of seven actors...
Hanks' hectoring is always about craft and competence: doing it right, getting the job done. Nearly every Hanks director describes him as a maddening perfectionist who is somehow so sincere that he doesn't piss anybody off. More important, he gives directors his fierce dedication to submerging himself in the...
Hanks is unusually generous to the press; he tries to give a fresh, incisive quote to each journalist. He even took it well when he heard he would be bumped off the cover of this week's TIME because of some minor congressional skirmish. Caring and articulate, he rarely trips...
Recently he told the New Yorker that he "regrets" having given $10,000 to the Clinton defense fund. Now, asked about that remark, he goes all stammery, in the early Hanks mode of bluster and fluster, to explain, "Look, if I hadn't given it then, I would have given...