Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publishing under the realistically lucid umbrella of fact. The result of years with a notebook out there in the jungles of real life, this novel--Bonfire of the Vanities--purports to lend everything a purpose and win the writer a one-way ticket through the annals of literary history. Tom Wolfe has published his first Novel...
...likes older boys. What could be simpler than to plunk a quarter in a carnival wishing machine and ask to be, well, big? But Josh did not specify just how big, and when he wakes up the next morning, he is the same size and the same age as Tom Hanks...
...guess you could say I'm somewhat attractive, but not stunning," Tom Hanks admits somewhat ruefully. "I'll look in the mirror and if the lighting's right, think, 'This ain't bad.' At other times I look as if a squirrel has slept in my hair and as if I've been slugged in the nose. My butt's too big, and my chest's too small...
...comparisons with such old-fashioned leading men as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon? "A tremendous sense of timing and great believability," says Larry Brezner, producer of The 'Burbs, the movie Hanks is now shooting. "He picks out the character and stays with it until the bitter end. Tom's better at acting funny than funny acting. He's an actor first and a comedian second...
...twelve- year- old boy wakes up one morning and finds he is the size and shape of Tom Hanks. His secret is that he remains a child inside, which enables him to score a success in the toy business, then with a fetching co- worker, who falls in love with a man who is a boy trying to act like a man. -- Eternal cutup Hanks, 31, emerges in the film as one of Hollywood' s top comic actors...