Tom Hanks

  • Why So Abrupt, Tom Hanks?

    Actor didn’t read the nominees before opening the Best Picture envelope – but that was the idea all along

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  • More Presenters Join Oscar Lineup

    Tom Hanks, Colin Firth, Robin Williams, Samuel L. Jackson among new additions

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  • Roberts, Hanks to Reteam for ‘Larry Crowne’

    He’s co-writing the Universal comedy with Nia Vardalos

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  • Clooney’s Haiti Relief Telethon Adds Madonna, Beyonce

    Pan-network event benefits Oxfam, Partners in Health, UNICEF, Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation, more

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    Wrap Staff

  • Hanks, Bening Join Governors Awards Lineup

    Academy announces more participants and attendees for Saturday’s honorary Oscar presentation.

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  • Idaho Court Rules in Hanks’ Favor

    Sends long-running construction dispute back to arbitration.

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    Wrap Staff

  • 10 Things I Learned This Week

    Barry Manilow teams with REM to “Pirates 4” to a new “Plan 9.”

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    Michael Adams

  • Tom Sherak Elected Head of AMPAS

    Studio veteran succeeds Sid Ganis in vote by board of governors

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    Wrap Staff

  • A Brief History of Coming Out, Hollywood-Style

    During the 1960s and ’70s, buff male actor Rock Hudson struggled to keep his personal life and sexuality out of the media as publications threatened to damage his reputation as America’s wholesome, hunky hearthhrob by publishing exposes about his homosexuality. It wasn’t until his death from AIDS in 1985 that his friends divulged Hudson’s efforts to keep…

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    Amy Kaufman

  • Academy Fills Governor Slots

    Tom Hanks returns as head of Oscar’s acting branch.

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    Lucas Shaw

  • Three Men With Three Very Different Weeks

    This week, we’re mourning one person who bucked the PR handbook, curious about another who might’ve put a crack in his carefully-shaped image and scratching our heads over a third who may or may not have committed suicide. Not necessarily who you think. As an entertainment writer for a daily paper in the 1980s, I…

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  • SAG Factions Louder Than Ever

    As the June 9 vote approaches, factions are getting more vocal with their ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ opinions.

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    Lauren Horwitch

  • ‘Angels’ Takes In $152 Million Worldwide

    ‘Star Trek’ falls only 43 percent with $43 million domestic take.

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    Lauren Horwitch
    ‘Angels’ Takes In $152 Million Worldwide

  • MPTF Home: A-Listers, Stand Up and Be Counted!

    Since my kid was a little boy and fascinated with movie making, we loved playing the Kevin Bacon version of Six Degrees of Separation. Now there is another version, and it’s not so much fun. His grandmother, along with all the other residents at the Motion Picture and Television Fund long term care center, is…

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    Richard Stellar

  • Tom Hanks to SAG-AMPTP Rescue?

    A-list stars said to be stepping in to help the Guild resolve its differences with the studios.

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    the Wrap Staff