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...Splash, Hanks sits at a bar and pours out his lace-valentine heart: "I wanna meet a woman and I wanna fall in love and I wanna get married and I wanna have a kid and I wanna go see him play a tooth in the school play. It's not much." But to ordinary, unique people -- the folks Hanks appeals to, and the folks he so smartly plays -- it's everything...
Hanks is a TV type who made a big splash in movies (first in Splash, then in Big). He is a throwback to old Hollywood, when everybody went to the movies, when movies were the world's TV, when the norm was more ... normal. Back then, quiet types like Henry Fonda and Gary Cooper played the extraordinary ordinary man. That's Hanks. Offscreen, apparently, he leads a calm, happy life. Onscreen, he is less likely to explode than to simmer and smile. With his suburban niceness and elusive, rubberized features -- any photo of him is bound to look smudged...
...year-old kid who literally grows up overnight (Big). You're a detective whose top informant is a slobbery dog (Turner & Hooch). You're the manager of a baseball team, and your players are all girls (A League of Their Own). Or your girlfriend is a fish (Splash). Your wife has died (Sleepless in Seattle). You think you're dying (Joe Versus the Volcano). You are dying (Philadelphia). Whether the dilemma is fantastic or tragic, Hanks gives it an apt, gentle heft...
Angela delighted in baths when she was out of the ventilator and could splash freely. "We'd play the sound track to Grease at bath time," Izzi recalls. "She was smiling and laughing, and we'd dry her off and hold her a little while, just to get some human contact." She adored watching videos, especially Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. "She wasn't really into Barney," observes Izzi. A lollipop was a special treat: "She would stick her tongue out, and we would rub it against her tongue...
Change, though, is what makes any city great, and though traditions die hard around here, in Boston changes happen all the time, to great effect. If a hundred 20-year-olds like a band, that band gets noticed; if a writer wants to make a splash, there are dozens of well-read magazines and newspapers that can accommodate...