Word: hankses
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The time is 1931. The story begins in a medium-size city near Chicago. There Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) works as a hit man for mob boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), who has raised him as his son--a man who bewilderingly, entrancingly combines Irish bonhomie with ruthless criminality.
HANKS: Just going there, win or lose, you're praying, please, keep me from doing something so stupid that it haunts me for the rest of my career. That's either falling down or making a joke that's not funny. Or trying to be serious and sounding sappy. If...
HANKS: Mine is, I know I'm a lucky man--but she could have done better.
For a man who has given orders to the likes of Paul Newman and Tom Hanks, Sam Mendes hardly cuts an imposing figure. The soft-spoken, moon-faced Englishman who directed Road to Perdition and American Beauty, which won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars, is more Cambridge humanities lecturer...
Mendes, 36, has been coaxing performances out of actors for years, but usually in the cozier, lower-stakes world of his native British theater. Although he produced disastrously bad footage his first two days on American Beauty, he's since taken easily to movies. "The joy for a director of...