Tom Hanks, Broadway's New Kid

Tom Hanks On His Broadway Debut
Tom Hanks LACMA Hosts 2012 Art & Film Gala LACMA Los Angeles, CA 10/27/12 © Jill Johnson/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661
Tom Hanks LACMA Hosts 2012 Art & Film Gala LACMA Los Angeles, CA 10/27/12 © Jill Johnson/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661

Tom Hanks swears. Not a blue streak, no, but it’s bracing to hear profanity from the man who has defined decency for three decades in Hollywood, playing white knights in “Splash,” “Forrest Gump,” “Apollo 13” and the “Toy Story” series. If he is grandma-friendly on screen, he is looser and less predictable in person -- as his old friend Nora Ephron was reminded several years ago when she sent him the screenplay for a biopic, “Lucky Guy.” Mr. Hanks took an instant dislike to his character, Mike McAlary, the muckraking columnist of New York City tabloids in the 1980s and ’90s.

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