Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word games or legalisms here. No "it depends on what your definition of best is." We say just the finest, ma'am. And in the realm of CINEMA, that means TOM HANKS, who follows up his Mark McGwire performance in Saving Private Ryan with a Sammy Sosa for the holidays. In TELEVISION, it means a goodbye from the nation's most beloved faux talk-show host. (Sorry, Magic.) In DESIGN, a cool house by Koolhaus. In MUSIC, a magical, defiant album by the woman formerly known as a Fugee. In THEATER, an angry drama from a member of the latest...
...annals of tattle, one man stands unsmeared. No one has accused Tom Hanks of being secretly gay, or of enjoying an unnatural relationship with certain varieties of fish, or of having sired a child in each NBA city. That is because (and we've researched this thoroughly) Hanks is a bright, decent, nice guy. You got a problem with that...
...devouring the sweet spirit of independence. In the intimate anonymity of a chat room, he carries on an e-mail affair with Ryan and doesn't tell her that her destroyer is her potential beau. At a literary soiree he scoops up all the caviar. Who is this creep? Tom Hanks. And because he is, he must be decent, searching, a thoughtful lover, natural dad-in-the-making. He reveals that through the comic grace he's displayed since Splash. It is a nice reminder that this ordinary-looking guy--with the repetitive crunches in that pensive space between...
Hanks has earned the luxury of taking his $20 million a picture and hiding. But this is the Enquirer era: excellence is not enough. He must be an ideal guy in real life; offstage he must be "Tom Hanks." So attend to these testimonials, made under neither threat nor hypnosis...
...Peter Scolari, Hanks' co-star on his first prominent gig, the engaging '80s sitcom Bosom Buddies: "It's not like there's a movie-star thing with Tom. There's not big aura. O.K., there is an aura, but he doesn't shine it in your eyes...