That’s right, it’s that guy from Big ‘s birthday today! We’d sing Happy Birthday to Mr. Tom Hanks but those “Happy Birthday” folks are stickers with copyright laws, so instead let’s just look at his Top Ten Characters! Check out our list below and see if you agree … 10. Buffy and Kip Wilson – Bosom Buddies 9. Jim Lovell – Apollo 13 8. Chuck Noland – Cast Away 7. Paul Edgecomb – The Green Mile 6. Josh Baskin – Big 5. Jimmy Dugan – A League of Their Own 4. Captain Miller – Saving Private Ryan 3. Woody – Toy Story 2. Andrew Beckett – Philadelphia 1. Forrest Gump – Forrest Gump Of course, all these spectacular roles in TV and movies almost pale in comparison to his role as stage dad on Toddlers & Tiaras (on Jimmy Kimmel Live ): Toddlers & Tiaras With Tom Hanks Happy Birthday, Tom Hanks! What’s your favorite role he’s played? Which was the best one we didn’t mention? Share it with us in the comments!
Also in Thursday afternoon’s news round up, Peter Bogdanovich will direct John Ledger , Locarno Film Festival will fete Johnnie To and Harvey Weinstein and Donald Sutherland take honors at a Paris festival. Tom Sizemore Set to Star in John Ledger Peter Bogdanovich ( Paper Moon will direct Sizemore ( Saving Private Ryan ) in the titular role. The story revolves around “one man’s descent into sex addiction and how it affects his family and friends. John Ledger is a 45-year-old, Southern Californian car salesman, who chases the demon of sex addiction while trying to maintain a normal life with wife, Mary and their teenage son, Brian.“ Johnnie To to Receive Locarno Fete Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To ( Breaking News will receive the “Pardo all carriera” award “for his exceptional contribution to cinema as a director and producer” at the Locarno Film Festival, taking place in the Swiss lakeside town August 1 – 11. The festival will also screen the European premiere of his latest production, Motorway directed by Soi Cheang in addition to a retrospective of a number of his past films. Around the ‘net… Maggie Gyllenhaal Boards White House Down Gyllenhaal will play the female lead in the thriller directed by Roland Emmerich. In the film Channing Tatum plays a secret service agent trying to stop a takeover of the presidential mansion. Jamie Foxx will play the U.S. president, Deadline reports . Harvey Weinstein, Donald Sutherland and Michael Madsen Join 1st Champs Elysees Film Festival Weinstein will receive a tribute at the Paris event, while Sutherland will be feted with a French award and a screening of Klute . The event is part of a strategy to “create a bridge between the independent American and French film industries,” SydneysBuzz reports from the event. MPAA Chief Chris Dodd Seeks Silicon Valley Piracy Support – Again The former senator is calling on Hollywood and Silicon Valley to work together on piracy after the latter helped kill anti-piracy legislation last year. Dodd wrote in a Huffington Post blog, “”It’s discouraging to hear Google executives say they ‘have done as much as they possibly can’ when in fact the theft of American products around the world is rampant – and often facilitated by their search engine,” Variety reports .
For most of the last 18 years as Steven Spielberg’s go-to cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski has held one of the sweetest creative gigs in Hollywood. The post has netted the Polish D.P. two Academy Awards (for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan , plus an additional nomination for Amistad ) and credits on some of the most commercially successful films of the last generation, but more than that, it has made Kaminski’s eye the one through which audiences witness Spielberg’s influential vision of the past, present and future. It’s a huge responsibility. It’s also a singular opportunity.
Yeah yeah I have heard the one about Shakespeare In Love beating Saving Private Ryan . But do you remember when Ghandi beat ET ? No, because you (maybe) weren't born yet! View
Impulse control just isn’t on Tom Sizemore’s radar these days. The Saving Private Ryan star has been charged with one count of misdemeanor spousal battery stemming from his Aug….
Filed under: Celebrity Justice Tom Sizemore has been charged with one count of spousal battery over an allegedly violent incident with his girlfriend earlier this month. As TMZ first reported, the former “Saving Private Ryan” actor was arrested in L.A. on August 6th after a verbal ..
