October 21, 2012 - New York Daily News
If “Cloud Atlas” — with its six intertwined stories that span 500 years — looks like one of the most audacious epics ever filmed, imagine what making it was like for the cast and crew. Enduring long stretches in the makeup chair to play multiple roles and bouncing...
Read moreTom Hanks Has ‘Loose Leaf Notebook’ Full of Women
October 20, 2012 - CNN
(CNN) — Tom Hanks’ upcoming movie “Cloud Atlas” might be a little confusing for those who haven’t read the book on which it’s based. In the movie, actors play multiple races with varying accents and even different genders — and they do it across eras...
Read moreHanks finally gets his sci-fi adventure
October 20, 2012 - Courier Post Online
Tom Hanks is such a big fan of science-fiction movies that back in 1982, he and his “Bosom Buddies” co-star Peter Scolari snuck onto the soundstage where “‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” was being filmed. Hanks didn’t land the cameo in “Wrath of...
Read moreTom Hanks relishes challenges of Cloud Atlas roles
October 19, 2012 - The Montreal Gazette
LOS ANGELES – Tom Hanks has nothing to prove in the acting game, but he still likes to entertain himself with tests. That’s why he jumped at the opportunity to play multiple characters in the complex film Cloud Atlas, which opens Oct. 26. The 56-year-old is part of an...
Read moreElie Wiesel And Tom Hanks: New Fast Friends
October 19, 2012 - The Jewish Week
Few would put the names Elie Wiesel, Tom Hanks and Sting in the same sentence, much less the men themselves in the same room. But there they were Wednesday evening in the majestic Celeste Bartos Forum of the New York Public Library where The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity honored the...
Read moreTom Hanks honored at Elie Wiesel Foundation gala
October 18, 2012 - Associated Press
When two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks found out he was being honored by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity at the New York Public Library, he remembered he owed a couple of books. "I've got to turn them in from 1977," Hanks said on the red carpet before going into the gala...
Read moreOctober 18, 2012 - Times of Oman
"The kids are out of the house,- says the actor, who is the father of 35-year-old Colin, 30-year-old Elizabeth, 22-year-old Chet and 17-year-old Truman. "I'm telling you, all the kids are gone and it's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Hanks. Of course...
Read moreTom Hanks on Becoming Walt Disney for 'Saving Mr. Banks'
October 18, 2012 - Hollywood Reporter
The actor visited the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco to research for the role of the famous mogul. Three weeks into production on Saving Mr. Banks, Tom Hanks spoke recently about his portrayal of Walt Disney in the new movie about behind-the-scenes wrangling to produce the...
Read moreOctober 18, 2012 - Express.co.uk
Tom Hanks says watching the final flight of Nasa’s space shuttle Endeavour got him itching to get back into his very own spacesuit. Thousands turned out to watch the retired spacecraft making the trip to its final resting place at the California Science Center on Sunday after it had...
Read moreCloud Atlas comedy smack down: Tom Hanks vs. Halle Berry
October 16, 2012 - Canada.com
Welcome to the Cloud Atlas battle of wits. In one corner (of the table), we have two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks, star of Cloud Atlas and former cross-dressing thespian who tried to have his coming out party with the early '80s sitcom, Bosom Buddies. In the other corner, we have...
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