Tom Hanks definitely got everyone&#8217;s attention when he said he&#8217;s made &#8220;a ton&#8221; of films during his career but only called four of them &#8220;pretty good.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks">66-year-old</a> actor made the shocking comment in a discussion about his upcoming novel titled, &#8220;The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece,&#8221; due out in 2023, <a href="https://people.com/movies/tom-hanks-reveals-cover-and-plot-details-of-new-novel-exclusive/">People magazine</a> noted.
&#8220;The source for a movie can go back as many years as are in history,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-didnt-let-tim-allen-tom-hanks-says-he-didnt-understand-why-chris-evans-replaced-allen-as-buzz-for-lightyear">Hanks</a> explained. &#8220;A story turns on a single moment in the life of someone, then all the anecdotes of the current day magnify that moment. Going back to 1947 makes sense, as would have starting in, say, 1559. Human yearning has proven to be timeless.&#8221;
&#8220;No one knows how a movie is made — though everyone thinks they do,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve made a ton of movies (and four of them are pretty good, I think) and I&#8217;m still amazed at how films come together. From a flicker of an idea to the flickering image onscreen, the whole process is a miracle.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0#actor">IMDb,</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-that-now-tom-hanks-says-fans-wouldnt-accept-him-playing-gay-man-in-philadelphia-now">actor</a> has 94 credits to his name, with his career on the big screen starting in 1983 with &#8220;Splash.&#8221;
It is hard to imagine which four of the nearly 100 movies he&#8217;s been part of he&#8217;s calling &#8220;pretty good.&#8221;
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The &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; star discussed details of his upcoming book with People, saying, &#8220;every character in the book does something I&#8217;ve experienced while making a movie, as well as discovered a philosophy or learned an important lesson.&#8221;
&#8220;Even the foolish moments are some kind of stunt I&#8217;ve pulled or mistake I&#8217;ve survived,&#8221; he added.
Hanks&#8217;s book will deal with the entertainment industry and the making of a &#8220;colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film and the humble comic book that inspired it,&#8221; per an official synopsis.
He said that he hopes it &#8220;captures as much of &#8216;the accidental judgements and casual slaughter&#8217; that go into a motion pictures dictum to hold &#8216;a mirror up to nature&#8217; that I have witnessed (and caused) since I joined the Screen Actors Guild.&#8221;

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Tom Hanks Says He’s Made Only Four ‘Pretty Good’ Movies During His Entire Career

Tom Hanks Says He's Made Only Four 'Pretty Good' Movies During His Entire Career

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks">Tom Hanks</a> made it clear he&#8217;s upset that he only learned about the Tulsa Massacre two years ago, and said he wanted to know who decided to make an &#8220;editorial&#8221; choice about what was &#8220;appropriate&#8221; for him to learn in school.
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-that-now-tom-hanks-says-fans-wouldnt-accept-him-playing-gay-man-in-philadelphia-now">66-year-old</a> actor&#8217;s recent appearance on the &#8220;Another Act&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bww22SBitGo">podcast</a>, Hanks talked about growing up as a child in Oakland, California, as he referenced why he wrote an op-ed last year advocating for the teaching of the race-based massacre for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/tom-hanks-tulsa-race-massacre-history.html">The New York Times</a>. It starts at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bww22SBitGo">12:31</a> minute mark.
&#8220;I read a New York Times piece on a hundred-year-old survivor of the Tulsa Massacre, and my question was this, &#8216;What’s the Tulsa Massacre?’” Hanks told the host. &#8220;You know, I was taught American history every three years growing up … how is it that it wasn&#8217;t until two years ago that I heard about the Tulsa Massacre?”
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&#8220;How is that possible? &#8230; I heard about all kinds of disasters in which people died,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But I had never heard about this thing that happened in 1921.&#8221;
&#8220;I tell you, at the age of 10, when I was in fifth grade, living in Oakland, California, that would&#8217;ve been a moment of enlightenment for me,&#8221; the superstar actor continued. &#8220;That would&#8217;ve told me something very, very different about the city I lived in. Not just American history or the city of Tulsa.&#8221;
Hanks explained how it made him “mad&#8221; that somebody had “made an editorial process&#8221; about what was and was not &#8220;appropriate&#8221; for him to learn in school about &#8220;our own American history” — and that it took him 54 years to find this out, calling it &#8220;not right&#8221; and a &#8220;disservice&#8221; to all of America.
In the NYT piece, the &#8220;Cast Away&#8221; star talked about how in all his years of studying history in school, he never learned &#8220;about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black citizens and displaced thousands of Black Americans who lived in Tulsa, Okla.&#8221;
He also wrote that, &#8220;America’s history is messy but knowing that makes us a wiser and stronger people. 1921 is the truth, a portal to our shared, paradoxical history.&#8221;
The comment was part of a larger interview about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elvis-biopics-black-roots-are-real-not-woke">actor&#8217;s</a> current role as Colonel Tom Parker on Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s &#8220;ELVIS&#8221; movie. Parker was Elvis Presley&#8217;s manager.
The movie is &#8220;Luhrmann&#8217;s biopic of Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker,&#8221; a description on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704428/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">IMDb</a> read.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-didnt-let-tim-allen-tom-hanks-says-he-didnt-understand-why-chris-evans-replaced-allen-as-buzz-for-lightyear">&#8216;They Didn&#8217;t Let Tim Allen&#8217;: Tom Hanks Says He Didn&#8217;t &#8216;Understand&#8217; Why Chris Evans Replaced Allen As Buzz For &#8216;Lightyear&#8217;</a>

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Tom Hanks Is 'Angry' He Only Learned About The Tulsa Massacre Two Years Ago

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Tom Hanks admitted he didn&#8217;t &#8220;understand&#8221; why Disney/Pixar replaced Tim Allen with Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear for the new animated film &#8220;Lightyear.&#8221;
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-that-now-tom-hanks-says-fans-wouldnt-accept-him-playing-gay-man-in-philadelphia-now">65-year-old</a> actor&#8217;s appearance on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CfPPwz9Jj7n/">CinemaBlend</a>, the &#8220;Castaway&#8221; star was asked if it was going to be weird being in theaters across from a Buzz Lightyear film, the <a href="https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/tom-hanks-reacts-to-lightyear-replacing-tim-allen-and-the-toy-story-spinoff-competing-with-elvis">outlet</a> noted. Hanks is currently in theaters in the &#8220;Elvis&#8221; movie where he plays Elvis&#8217; manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Hanks said he was looking forward to going &#8220;head-to-head&#8221; with his former co-star from the &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; franchise, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-allen">Allen</a>. In the animated films, Hanks was the voice of the cowboy toy Woody, and his best friend is Buzz Lightyear, a role voiced by the &#8220;Home Improvement&#8221; star.
&#8220;How &#8217;bout that?&#8221; Hanks explained. &#8220;Why it&#8217;s not&#8230;actually I wanted to go head-to-head with Tim Allen, and then they didn&#8217;t let Tim Allen do it. I don&#8217;t understand that.&#8221;
When pressed by the interviewer about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-tim-allen-wasnt-picked-to-voice-buzz-lightyear-in-lightyear-movie">Allen</a> being replaced by the &#8220;Avengers: Endgame&#8221; star, Hanks said, &#8220;Yeah, yeah, I know.&#8221;
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&#8220;But here&#8217;s the thing, just as long as people come back to the motion picture theater,&#8221; Hanks said. &#8220;I want to go back in the theater with a bunch of strangers and leave with something in common.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s what I want to do,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And going to see a movie with him, I&#8217;m looking forward to that.&#8221;
Allen recently broke his silence on Evans voicing the iconic spaceman in the origin-based film. He said there’s &#8220;no connection&#8221; to his famed character in the &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; franchise, though he wished there was, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-allen-finally-weighs-in-on-lightyear-says-theres-no-relationship-to-buzz-and-famed-character">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
&#8220;The short answer is I&#8217;ve stayed out of this because it has nothing to do [with my character],&#8221; the &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; star shared. &#8220;This is a whole new team that really had nothing to do with the first movies.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a wonderful story,&#8221; he added of the new movie. &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t seem to have any connection to the toy, and it&#8217;s a little … I don&#8217;t know. It just has no relationship to Buzz. It&#8217;s just no connection. I wish there was a better connection to this.&#8221;
Allen said that any &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; movie about Buzz must include Hanks&#8217; character. &#8220;There&#8217;s really no &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; Buzz without Woody.&#8221;
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced</a> plans for kids’ entertainment content.)

‘They Didn’t Let Tim Allen’: Tom Hanks Says He Didn’t ‘Understand’ Why Chris Evans Replaced Allen As Buzz For ‘Lightyear’

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Baz Luhrmann’s “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704428/">Elvis</a>” isn’t your standard-issue biographical film.
There have been other Presley biopics released over the years, including one starring Kurt Russell (1979) and a miniseries with Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2005). But the director of “Moulin Rouge!” and “The Great Gatsby” figured something … different was in order.
Luhrmann’s “Elvis” brims with razzle-dazzle sequences, concert recreations and those Presley hip gyrations that caused a societal stir. Anyone expecting conventional rags-to-riches storytelling, though, will be disappointed.
Co-star Tom Hanks, playing the duplicitous Colonel Tom Parker, gets so much screen time it’s almost like you’re watching “Elvis and the Colonel.”
Luhrmann doesn’t ruminate on the icon’s ’70s excess but digs into his formative years. That means showing a young Presley attending black churches and peeping into clubs where black musicians made music outside the cultural mainstream.
None of the presentation is woke. It’s a celebratory recreation of Presley’s backstory. And this “Elvis” doesn’t condemn its subject for cultural appropriation.
It honors that amalgam of music, culture, and style.
It’s undeniable that Presley allowed the music industry to elevate gospel and R&amp;B stylings via a white performer who captured their essence.
That doesn’t tell the whole story, though, since some black artists did <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/whats-so-great-about-elvis-he-didnt-invent-or-steal-anything/374081/">crack the mainstream</a> during the 1950s, including The Dominoes, who made a run at the pop music charts with “Sixty Minute Man” in 1951. With the lyrics &#8220;I rock &#8217;em, roll &#8217;em all night long,&#8221; the track is even considered by some as the origin of the &#8220;Rock and Roll&#8221; genre.
Plus, Bill Haley beat out Presley on the charts, albeit barely, with 1954’s “Rock Around the Clock.”
Presley, though, became a once-in-a-generation superstar.
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, he spent his early days in a racially mixed community. His tight-knit family attended the Assembly of God Church, exposing him at a young age to gospel music.
The future star moved to Memphis, TN, in his teen years, where he absorbed the sounds of historic Beale Street. Teen Presley shopped on the celebrated street and soaked in the blues and gospel singers who called the region their second home.
<a href="https://www.graceland.com/">Graceland.com</a>, dedicated to keeping Presley’s legacy intact, <a href="https://www.graceland.com/biography">elegantly captures</a> how the singer incorporated those influences into his art. “[Presley] uniquely combined his diverse musical influences and blurred and challenged the social and racial barriers of the time.”
The movie finds him comparing creative notes with the likes of B.B. King (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.), and it’s clear being a white star channeling blues and gospel notes let him rise beyond some black peers.
Presley’s mammoth talents did the rest.
He openly spoke of how black singers impacted his creative choices. A 1957 interview with Jet Magazine, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-truth-about-elvis-and-the-history-of-racism-in-rock">recalled by The Daily Beast</a>, offers a window into his generous spirit:
<blockquote>“I always wanted to sing like Billy Kenny of the Ink Spots. … I like that high, smooth style. … I never sang like this in my life until I made that first record—‘That’s Alright, Mama.’ I remembered that song because I heard Arthur (Big Boy) Crudup sing it and I thought I would like to try it.” </blockquote>
Black musicians, in turn, embraced him as an artist, not merely a white colleague. James Brown, for example, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/elvis-presley-40-years-later-was-king-rock-n-roll-guilty-appropriating-black-651911">called him “his brother”</a> and upon Presely’s death said, &#8220;There’ll never be another like that soul brother.”
<a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sammy-davis-jr-turned-down-elvis-presleys-in-the-ghetto-wanted-king-of-rock-n-roll-sing.html/">Sammy Davis, Jr. similarly hailed</a> Presley and spoke openly of their respectful bond.
“Elvis” wisely ignores any cries of cultural appropriation. Luhrmann’s film honors Presley’s musical gifts while acknowledging his cultural influences. This shrewd approach to assessing the icon’s body of work is not only fair to the subject matter, but it’s also accurate to how Presley embraced those influences.
“Elvis” shows the superstar commiserating with Harrison Jr.’s B.B. King in scenes that lack the depth and details that haunt the rest of the superficial trappings. They reveal a musician willing to learn from his peers, no matter their skin color.
He worshipped music in all its wondrous shadings.
Not everyone signed off on Presley’s noble heart. Music impresario Quincy Jones dubbed Presley a racist based on what <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/quincy-jones-michael-jackson-elvis-presley-1234955138/">band leader Tommy Dorsey claimed about Presley</a>.
<a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shine-my-shoes/">Snopes.com debunked</a> one allegedly racist Presley quote which circulated in the late 1950s. Sun Records founder Sam Phillips similarly described an Elvis Presley who didn’t match Dorsey’s version: “The lack of prejudice on the part of Elvis Presley had to be one of the biggest things that happened to us …”
Presley’s story, as everyone knows, had a tragic ending. His medicinal addictions turned him into a sideshow — witness the “Fat Elvis” some impersonators evoke in their act. He died at 42 but remains an integral part of pop culture.
And his success, from his innate gifts to his ability to fuse cultural influences into one irresistible package sans hate, embodies the American dream in a way few others could replicate.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Actors know their next gig could be their last in the fickle Hollywood arena.
Tastes change. Box office glory fades. A new, younger star suddenly snags the roles tailor-made for them.
It’s why most actors don’t trash their own films, no matter how bad they might be. Even Rebel Wilson <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8008483/Rebel-Wilson-defends-Cats-movie-reveals-cult-classic.html">defended 2019’s infamous stink bomb “Cats.”</a>
The following stars break that unwritten rule. They have happily mocked their past efforts, inadvertently shaming their co-stars, directors and screenwriters in the process. Some did so for artistic reasons. Others may have felt pressure to criticize their less-than-woke projects.
<h4>Tom Hanks</h4>
We’ve recently learned “Forrest Gump” isn’t proud of one of his two Oscar wins. Hanks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/16/tom-hanks-says-couldnt-play-gay-role-today-philadelphia">has said</a> that nowadays, only a gay man could have played his role in 1993’s “Philadelphia,” even though he’ll keep that golden statuette.
Hanks has also attacked one of his most famous franchises, “The Da Vinci Code” series, including the two sequels “Angels &amp; Demons” and “Inferno.” Hanks starred as Robert Langdon in the successful saga, based on the best-selling books by Dan Brown. The saga, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html">Hanks’ interview with The New York Times</a>, is “as cynical as a crossword puzzle.”
<blockquote>Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey. “The Da Vinci Code” was hooey.
Those are delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage. … All we were doing is promising a diversion.</blockquote>
<h4>George Clooney</h4>
The “Ocean’s Eleven” star is no stranger to clunkers, from his 2017 directorial dud “Suburbicon” to “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/08/grizzly-ii-review-george-clooney-laura-dern">Grizzly II</a>,” shot before NBC’s “ER” made him a star.
Clooney saves most of his self-directed ire for “Batman &amp; Robin,” the 1997 film that crushed the Dark Knight franchise for 12 years. The film is a disaster, a tonal mishmash that attempts to summon the ‘60s TV show but fails miserably.
Clooney has mocked the film for years, zeroing in on his contributions to the franchise. In an interview with GQ, Clooney <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/george-clooney-icon-of-the-year-2020">expanded his apology</a> to the film itself.<a href="https://www.thewrap.com/george-clooney-admits-terrible-in-batman-and-robin/">.</a>
<blockquote>When I say “Batman and Robin” is a terrible film, I always go, “I was terrible in it.” Because I was, number one. But also because then it allows you the ability to say, “Having said I sucked in it, I can also say that none of these other elements worked either.” You know? Lines like “Freeze, Freeze!”</blockquote>
Clooney previously told “The Graham Norton Show” he <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/george-clooney-apologises-for-destroying-batman-robin-18-years-later-10276879.html">played a role in crushing a beloved superhero saga</a>.
<blockquote>Let me just say that I’d actually thought I’d destroyed the franchise until somebody else brought it back years later and changed it. I thought at the time that this was going to be a very good career move. Ummmmm, it wasn’t.</blockquote>
“Batman &amp; Robin” earned $107 million domestically, which was a far cry from “Batman Forever’s” $184 million haul two years earlier. 
<h4>Shia LaBeouf</h4>
The troubled star’s career is in limbo following allegations he <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/06/21/fka-twigs-looks-back-calling-abuse-ex-shia-labeouf/7695095001/">sexually mistreated ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs</a>, charges the actor denies.
Before those headlines, LaBeouf made some powerful enemies by trashing his work in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” … and the film itself. The actor slammed his own contributions to the film, a commercial smash — but one fans soured on after its 2008 release.
Talking to the Los Angeles Times, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/24-frames/story/2010-05-15/cannes-2010-shia-labeouf-we-botched-the-last-indiana-jones">LaBeouf felt their pain</a>.
<blockquote>I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished. … You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven [Spielberg, who directed]. But the actor’s job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn’t do it. So that’s my fault. Simple.</blockquote>
He also claimed star Harrison Ford had similar misgivings about the finished product.
<blockquote>He wasn’t happy with it either. Look, the movie could have been updated. There was a reason it wasn’t universally accepted.</blockquote>
“Skull” director Steven Spielberg <a href="https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a399730/shia-labeouf-i-deeply-regret-criticising-steven-spielberg/">wasn’t pleased</a> that LaBeouf didn’t take one for the team.
<h4>Viola Davis</h4>
The Oscar winner is one of Hollywood’s most revered stars, but an early role continues to haunt her. 
The 2011 drama “The Help” drew critical acclaim and commercial success – its $169 million U.S. box office total is rare for a dramatic film. The story follows a young writer (Emma Stone) who interviews the black women charged with tending to wealthy white families in their southern community.
Davis played one of “the help,” but the actress now looks back with disdain on the film and her contributions to it. It’s worth noting Octavia Spencer, who is black, earned a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her part in the film.
Davis <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/07/cover-story-viola-davis">complained</a> to Vanity Fair that the story was &#8220;created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism” and cared more about its “white audience.”
<h4>Robert Pattinson</h4>
“The Batman” may have made Pattinson a bankable superhero star, but the “Twilight” films put him on the map.
The unknown actor got the coveted role as Edward Cullen in the film franchise, which was dismissed by critics but adored by its fan base. That didn’t persuade Pattinson, who has mocked the movies repeatedly over the years. He <a href="https://www.wmagazine.com/story/robert-pattinson-good-time-subway">dissected the movies as a whole</a> to W magazine in 2017.
<blockquote>If it hadn’t been so successful, I think people would have thought it was really weird. It’s a really weird story. But I think once it becomes mainstream, it’s difficult for people to see how strange the story is.</blockquote>
Even creating promotional materials for the saga made Pattinson wince. The actor <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/04/robert-pattinson-201104">told</a> Vanity Fair he endured a lengthy photo shoot to help sell the series.
<blockquote>There&#8217;s nothing you can do about it. That&#8217;s the way it is. But it is weird being part of that, kind of representing something you don&#8217;t particularly like.</blockquote>
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/americas-dad-tom-hanks-hosts-a-surprisingly-funny-saturday-night-live-from-home/">Tom Hanks</a> dropped an f-bomb on a fan who got a little too close to the superstar and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, as they were leaving a New York City restaurant.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-i-got-no-respect-for-people-who-dont-wear-masks/">Hanks</a> and Wilson were leaving a Midtown, NYC restaurant when they were surrounded by fans hoping to nab a photo or say hello — but several of them got close enough that the actor and his wife got bumped and jostled as they made their way out the door, according to a video that circulated Thursday.
Several large men — who appeared to be providing security for the power couple — could be heard warning the gathering crowd to be careful of Hanks and Wilson. &#8220;How you doin&#8217;? Be careful, Tom,&#8221; one said. &#8220;Watch out, move, move,&#8221; another added.
Once on the street, however, one fan bumped into Wilson with enough force that he almost knocked her to the ground.
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Wilson responded immediately, saying, &#8220;Whoa! Guys, stop it!&#8221;
Hanks reacted right away as well, turning to address the fans. &#8220;My wife!?&#8221; he shouted, clearly angry. Placing his hands on two of the men closest to him, Hanks pressed lightly on their chests to push them back slightly. &#8220;Back the f*** up!&#8221; he yelled at the group.
&#8220;What are y&#8217;all doin&#8217;?&#8221; one member of the security team asked as the fans stepped back.
&#8220;Knocking over my wife!?&#8221; Hanks continued to shout at them.
&#8220;Yeah, they&#8217;re buggin&#8217;, sorry about that,&#8221; the man said, attempting to turn Hanks toward the waiting car.
Others could be heard shouting, &#8220;Sorry about that, Tom,&#8221; as the actor walked away, allowing the security team to steer him toward the vehicle and away from the scene.
Most of the responses to Hanks&#8217; behavior were positive.
Former NBC Executive Mike Sington called the actor&#8217;s response understandable, saying, &#8220;Tom Hanks momentarily, and understandably, loses his nice guy persona as over eager fans practically knock over his wife Rita Wilson.&#8221;
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Tom Hanks momentarily, and understandably, loses his nice guy persona as over eager fans practically knock over his wife Rita Wilson. <a href="https://t.co/vS2xfCqOIO">pic.twitter.com/vS2xfCqOIO</a>
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Another user <a href="https://twitter.com/nickguillory/status/1537454895925690368">added</a>, &#8220;I don’t blame him … people are CRAZY and these days doing the most… don’t understand personal space and respect!&#8221;
&#8220;They earned that &#8216;Back the f*** off&#8217; tbh,&#8221; cultural critic Mikki Kendall <a href="https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/1537439524451545089">tweeted</a>.
Boston 25 News employee Tim Martin referenced a Hanks &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; character, <a href="https://twitter.com/TMar15/status/1537434563965644805">adding</a>, &#8220;Imagine having to go through the rest of your life knowing David S. Pumpkins yelled at you.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks">Tom Hanks</a> won an Oscar for his portrayal of a gay lawyer in the 1993 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">drama</a> “Philadelphia,” but the actor doesn’t believe he’d get that same part today as a straight man.
Hanks made the comments during an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html">The New York Times Magazine</a>, saying he agreed that straight actors shouldn’t pretend to be gay for TV or movie roles. &#8220;Could a straight man do what I did in ‘Philadelphia’ now? No, and rightly so,&#8221; the 65-year-old actor told the publication. 
&#8220;The whole point of &#8216;Philadelphia&#8217; was don’t be afraid. One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a gay man,&#8221; he said. 
&#8220;We’re beyond that now,&#8221; Hanks continued. &#8220;I don’t think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy. It’s not a crime, it’s not boohoo, that someone would say we are going to demand more of a movie in the modern realm of authenticity. Do I sound like I’m preaching? I don’t mean to.&#8221;
The actor won his first Academy Award for portraying Andrew Beckett, a gay attorney diagnosed with AIDS and facing workplace discrimination.
In his Oscars acceptance speech in 1994, Hanks said playing in the movie &#8220;is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels,&#8221; per <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/06/15/tom-hanks-philadelphia-role-couldnt-happen-today/7642974001/">USA Today</a>. Several attendees wore red ribbons to bring awareness to HIV and AIDS.
&#8220;We know their names,&#8221; Hanks said. &#8220;They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all — a healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common-sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all and was written down on paper by wise men, tolerant men, in the city of Philadelphia 200 years ago.&#8221;
Elsewhere in the NYT Magazine interview, Hanks explained why he left Twitter. His last post was in May 2020.
“I stopped posting because, number one, I thought it was an empty exercise. I have enough attention on me,” the “Forrest Gump” actor said. 
“But also I’d post something goofy like, ‘Here’s a pair of shoes I saw in the middle of the street,’ and the third comment would be, ‘[Expletive] you, Hanks.’ I don’t know if I want to give that guy the forum. If the third comment is ‘[Expletive] you, you Obama-loving communist,’ it’s like, I don’t need to do that,&#8217;” he said.

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Tom Hanks, who stated, “I’m not cynical. Cynicism is a default position in an awful lot of entertainment,” had some rather cynical words regarding the Da Vinci Codes films he made.
Hanks spoke in an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html">The New York Times</a> about the mystery-thriller films based on the work of author Dan Brown, which included “The Da Vinci Code,” (2006), “Angels and Demons,” (2009) and “Inferno” (2016).”
“Oh, God, that was a commercial enterprise,” Hanks admitted. “Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey. ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was hooey.”
“I mean, Dan Brown, God bless him, says, Here is a sculpture in a place in Paris! No, it’s way over there. See how a cross is formed on a map? Well, it’s sort of a cross,” Hanks  said.
“Those are delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage. But they’re as cynical as a crossword puzzle. All we were doing is promising a diversion,” he continued.
“There’s nothing wrong with good commerce, provided it is good commerce,” Hanks insisted, quipping, “By the time we made the third one, we proved that it wasn’t such good commerce.”
The original book and film of “The Da Vinci Code” films elicited harsh criticism from the Catholic Church for the supposition that a cover-up had been implemented over a marriage between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene and that they had borne a daughter; criticism was also leveled for the portrayal of the Catholic organizations Priory of Sion and Opus Dei. Some members of the Catholic Church urged a boycott of the film.
“Let me tell you something else about ‘The Da Vinci Code,&#8217;” Hanks confided. “It was my 40th-something birthday. We were shooting in the Louvre at night. I changed my pants in front of the Mona Lisa! They brought me a birthday cake in the Grand Salon! Who gets to have that experience? Any cynicism there? Hell no!”
Hanks, who had been a supporter of former President Barack Obama, seemingly slammed  the Trump administration as he declared, “Now, a certain administration came down the pike, and the people who were screaming seemed to rule the day. Why? Because the people who cared about what’s right didn’t show up. Well, something egregious enough comes along, and guess what? People will show up. But their cages have to be rattled.”

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Chet Hanks won&#8217;t apologize for what activists are calling &#8220;cultural appropriation,&#8221; instead telling his critics to &#8220;kick rocks.&#8221;
Chet, son of actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, has been <a href="https://level.medium.com/mugging-the-black-experience-on-adele-and-the-politics-of-appropriation-ceff5104ed8">accused</a> of so-called appropriating black culture for using a Jamaican accent. His song and music video for &#8220;White Boy Summer&#8221; has also been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/14/chet-hanks-keeps-calling-for-a-white-boy-summer-and-he-really-needs-to-stop">criticized</a> in a similar racial vein by activists.
&#8220;Nah. I don’t feel like I’ve truly done anything offensive, so I don&#8217;t,&#8221; Chet recently told host Ziwe Fumudoh, when asked if he&#8217;d like to “apologize to any marginalized communities,&#8221; particularly the &#8220;Patois community.&#8221;
The &#8220;Ziwe&#8221; host asked if the actor felt this way because he viewed his alleged &#8220;appropriation&#8221; as merely &#8220;a celebration of culture&#8221; and believes &#8220;social justice warriors&#8221; complaining about him can &#8220;go kick rocks.&#8221;
Chet nodded in the affirmative.
“Yeah. I 100% agree,&#8221; the 31-year-old responded. &#8220;Social justice warriors can kick rocks.&#8221;
The video went viral, garnering 2.8 million views in a matter of hours.
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In 2021, Chet explained what the phenomenon of &#8220;white boy summer&#8221; is really about &#8212; and that&#8217;s apparently &#8220;interracial relations.&#8221;
&#8220;White boy summer is me,&#8221; Chet <a href="https://exclaim.ca/music/article/chet_hanks_explains_what_white_boy_summer_really_means">told</a> YouTuber Andrew Callaghan.
&#8220;White boy summer is fun, inclusive; white boy summer is love,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s about the white boys that love black queens — it&#8217;s the white boys that are tuned into the black girl magic. That&#8217;s really what white boy summer is all about: just shining a light on interracial relations.&#8221;
Chet added that he&#8217;s preferred black women since &#8220;as long as I can remember.&#8221;
The rapper recently made headlines when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-son-chet-speaks-candidly-about-toxic-upbringing-in-hollywood">spoke</a> out about &#8220;toxic&#8221; Hollywood culture in a video titled, “The Truth About Growing Up As A Hanks.”
&#8220;While Chet said he’s &#8216;blessed&#8217; to be part of a family he loves, the experience of growing up with very famous parents was a &#8216;double-edged sword,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-son-chet-speaks-candidly-about-toxic-upbringing-in-hollywood">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“There’s a lot of advantages but sometimes it can be pretty weird,” he said in the video, which was published in February. “I got to do a lot of cool s*** that a lot of people don’t get the opportunity to do. I got to travel the world, stay in nice hotels, fly on private planes and I’m very blessed for that. I wouldn’t change my situation.”
“My experience was even more complicated because on top of fame already being toxic, I wasn’t even famous,” Chet continued. “I was just the son of somebody famous so I hadn’t even done anything to deserve any sort of recognition and that created a lot of contempt.”
“People would make up their minds about me before they even got the chance to know me and it was extremely hard to break down their walls,” the &#8220;Empire&#8221; alum added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-son-chet-speaks-candidly-about-toxic-upbringing-in-hollywood">Tom Hanks’ Son Chet Speaks Candidly About ‘Toxic’ Upbringing In Hollywood</a>

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Tom Hanks’ 31-year-old son Chet Hanks may have had a charmed upbringing with lots of money, private jets, and fancy vacations. But the son of two famous people claims that not everything about his childhood was great.
Chet revealed some of the darker aspects of being the son of two celebrities (Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson) during a recent YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvxJA7p2_Q">video</a> called, “The Truth About Growing Up As A Hanks.” 
While Chet said he’s &#8220;blessed&#8221; to be part of a family he loves, the experience of growing up with very famous parents was a &#8220;double-edged sword.&#8221; 
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of advantages but sometimes it can be pretty weird,&#8221; Chet said in the YouTube video. &#8220;I got to do a lot of cool s*** that a lot of people don&#8217;t get the opportunity to do. I got to travel the world, stay in nice hotels, fly on private planes and I&#8217;m very blessed for that. I wouldn&#8217;t change my situation.&#8221;
The “Empire” alum explained that many of his peers were jealous, which led to some tricky situations. It didn’t help that people’s perceptions were shaped by who his parents were and nothing he could control.
&#8220;My experience was even more complicated because on top of fame already being toxic, I wasn&#8217;t even famous,&#8221; Chet continued. &#8220;I was just the son of somebody famous so I hadn&#8217;t even done anything to deserve any sort of recognition and that created a lot of contempt.&#8221;
The actor said how this negativity pervaded throughout his schooling career, but really came to a head during his high school years.
&#8220;People would make up their minds about me before they even got the chance to know me and it was extremely hard to break down their walls,&#8221; the “Your Honor” alum said. He also explained how it gave him a “chip” on his shoulder and a &#8220;hard exterior.&#8221; 
Chet said, &#8220;People kinda did f*** with me a lot growing up. It was never to my face. It was always behind my back in the forms of gossip or s*** talking.&#8221;
Now Chet says he’s in a much better place. He concludes in the video that &#8220;people&#8217;s perception of you is only a reflection of themselves.&#8221; The father of one also claims to have &#8220;changed&#8221; his &#8220;life&#8221; and is no longer on the &#8220;self-destructive&#8221; path of &#8220;anger&#8221; and &#8220;partying.&#8221;
The son of Tom Hanks came under fire last summer for outspoken vaccine hesitancy. After giving a long video speech talking about how he got the vaccine and thinks it’s important for everyone to do, Chet quickly changed course, E News <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1298298/tom-hanks-and-rita-wilsons-son-chet-hanks-faces-backlash-for-covid-19-vaccine-comments">reported</a>.
“PSYCH, b***! If it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it. I never had COVID. Ya ain&#8217;t sticking me with that motherf***ing needle,&#8221; the actor said in the video. 
He then said he believed COVID-19 is &#8220;the motherf***ing flu,&#8221; and continued, &#8220;Get over it, OK? If you&#8217;re sick, stay inside. OK, why we working around y&#8217;all? If you&#8217;re in danger, stay your ass inside. I&#8217;m tired of wearing a motherf***ing mask.&#8221;
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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz trolled the Biden administration on Thursday after calling out a new Tom Hanks promotional video to celebrate the president&#8217;s first-year achievements as &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; in real life.
&#8220;The Simpsons did it first!&#8221; Cruz tweeted alongside a post featuring a screenshot from &#8220;The Simpsons Movie.&#8221;
The included post read, &#8220;Oh my gosh it&#8217;s the Simpsons in real life.&#8221;
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The reference was made to the 2007 &#8220;The Simpsons Movie,&#8221; which included an animated cameo of the Hollywood star in its closing credits.
&#8220;Hello, I&#8217;m Tom Hanks,&#8221; the animated Hanks said in the meme. &#8220;The U.S. government has lost its credibility, so it&#8217;s borrowing some of mine.&#8221;
Hanks narrated the voice in Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Year One of the Biden-Harris Administration&#8221; video released on Thursday.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s never been a good idea to bet against America. And, there&#8217;s nothing we can&#8217;t do if we do it together. We are stronger today than we were a year ago,&#8221; the video&#8217;s description reads.
The two-minute video features Hanks reminding people that America is &#8220;the home of the brave&#8221; and features &#8220;achievements&#8221; of the Biden administration, including the millions of Americans who have received vaccines and a bounce back from pandemic job closures.
The video concludes with a brief appearance by President Joe Biden himself.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve long said it&#8217;s never been a good bet to bet against America,&#8221; the president noted. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been more optimistic about America&#8217;s future. There&#8217;s nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together.&#8221;
The video was produced by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. <a href="https://www.axios.com/biden-one-year-inaugural-committee-ad-3c7597b5-490c-4f23-b919-5b97e10785db.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> reported the committee, &#8220;which was <a class="gtm-content-click" href="https://www.emmys.com/shows/53rd-presidential-inaugural-gala" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-vars-link-text="nominated" data-vars-click-url="https://www.emmys.com/shows/53rd-presidential-inaugural-gala" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link">nominated</a> for an Emmy, is spending several million dollars in leftover inaugural funds to air the ad on broadcast and cable TV today.&#8221;
In a statement to Axios, the committee noted, &#8220;In recognition of the President’s first year in office, the Biden-Harris Presidential Inaugural Committee believed it was important to celebrate the strength and perseverance of the American people in the face of extraordinary adversity, just as we did a year ago today.&#8221;
The video comes just one day after Biden gave a rare solo press conference in Washington, D.C., to celebrate accomplishments during his first year in office. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-over-embarrassing-press-conference-let-the-25th-amendment-discussions-begin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>President Joe Biden was widely criticized online on Wednesday following his about two-hour press conference, the first press conference that he’s given in months, over his responses to a variety of questions.
Biden suggested during the press conference that a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine might not elicit the same response from the U.S. as a full-scale invasion.
When asked about his struggles in office and whether he overpromised on the campaign trail, Biden responded, “I didn’t over-promise, but I have probably outperformed what anyone thought would happen.”</blockquote>
Cruz also criticized Biden&#8217;s speech on Twitter in multiple posts on Wednesday.
&#8220;Biden’s speech tonight was shockingly reckless and out of touch. He was either completely unaware of or indifferent to major issues impacting Americans today: empty grocery store shelves, record inflation, and authoritarian COVID mandates,&#8221; he said.
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Biden’s speech tonight was shockingly reckless and out of touch.
He was either completely unaware of or indifferent to major issues impacting Americans today: empty grocery store shelves, record inflation, and authoritarian COVID mandates. 1/x
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1483960391298338816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cruz concluded, &#8220;Biden spent two hours trying to gaslight the American people to accept the Democrats&#8217; radical proposals. It was shameful and disturbing.&#8221;
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Biden spent two hours trying to gaslight the American people to accept the Democrats&#39; radical proposals. 
It was shameful and disturbing. 5/x
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1483960395329064960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Actor Tom Hanks will extol the job done by President Biden in his first year in office, acting as the narrator in a video produced Biden&#8217;s Presidential Inaugural Committee celebrating Biden’s first anniversary in office and asserting how well America is doing.
The video will be “blanketing today&#8217;s airwaves — from breakfast to evening news to prime time — with a video promoting a recovering, resilient America,” <a href="https://www.axios.com/biden-one-year-inaugural-committee-ad-3c7597b5-490c-4f23-b919-5b97e10785db.html">Axios</a> reports, adding, “The committee, which was <a href="https://www.emmys.com/shows/53rd-presidential-inaugural-gala">nominated</a> for an Emmy, is spending several million dollars in leftover inaugural funds to air the ad on broadcast and cable TV today. The PIC then will spend a similar amount over the next week to amplify the video on digital platforms.”
The Presidential Inaugural Committee told Axios: “In recognition of the President’s first year in office, the Biden-Harris Presidential Inaugural Committee believed it was important to celebrate the strength and perseverance of the American people in the face of extraordinary adversity, just as we did a year ago today. &#8230; Through the voices of those Americans — including some who participated in last year&#8217;s celebration — the video also highlights the progress that&#8217;s been made over the last year.”
“Past inaugural committees have used leftover funds in various ways, including donating to the White House Historical Association or renovations in the presidential residence,” Axios noted.
Last year, Hanks <a href="https://www.etonline.com/tom-hanks-opens-joe-bidens-inaugural-tv-special-with-powerful-message-of-unity-159234">hosted</a> Biden and Kamala Harris’ Inauguration Day <a href="https://www.etonline.com/tim-mcgraw-tyler-hubbard-and-more-to-perform-during-joe-biden-inaugural-tv-special-158967">TV special, Celebrating America</a>, and referred to Washington D.C. as “our nation&#8217;s secured capital city,” stating:
<blockquote>I&#8217;m at the Lincoln Memorial, on the National Mall, in our nation&#8217;s secured capital city&#8230;
The last few weeks, last few years, we&#8217;ve witnessed deep divisions and a troubling rancor in our land. But tonight we ponder the United States of America. The practice of our democracy, the foundations of our republic, the integrity of our constitution, the hope and dreams we all share for a more perfect union&#8230;
 Inauguration Day is about much more than the swearing in of our next national leaders. This day is about witnessing the permanence of our American ideal&#8230;
 Every four years we hear the words that will empower us all on the journey ahead, the message that can unite us, as we begin a new passage from where we are to where we can be. A trek to a common goal, to the promise of our promised land.</blockquote>
In April 2017, Hanks joined former President Barack Obama on a trip in French Polynesia. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4416814/Barack-Michelle-Obama-pose-superyacht-Tahiti.html">The Daily Mail</a>reported, “The former First Couple joined Bruce Springsteen Tom Hanks and their wives on music mogul David Geffen&#8217;s superyacht Rising Sun on Friday, making quite the splash as they arrived at the vessel off the island of Mo&#8217;orea in a spruced up speedboat.”
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8239233/Tom-Hanks-Rita-Wilson-join-Michelle-Obama-make-case-mail-voting.html">reported</a> in April 2020, “Former First Lady Michelle Obama held a &#8216;couch party&#8217; along with Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson on Monday night in an event designed to encourage people to sign up for mail-in voting. On Monday night Michelle Obama spoke to Hanks and Wilson on the telephone as part of a &#8216;voter registration&#8217; event.”

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