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``Cast Away's'' `Wilson' a Smash Hit on Fox Auction.


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LOS LOS Length of stay, see there  ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 3, 2001

While Tom Hanks Noun 1. Tom Hanks - United States film actor (born in 1956)
Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks
 has been receiving wide acclaim -- and a New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Film Critics Circle Award -- for his performance in the box-office smash "Cast Away," he's not the only cast member to win the hearts of moviegoers.

One of the two-time Oscar winner's "co-stars," a volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2.  named Wilson, also has been receiving considerable attention. This week, on the studio's Fox-auction.com Web site, Wilson fetched an incredible winning bid of $18,400.00. (Bidding had opened on Dec. 26, at $100.00.) Wilson also had by far the most individual "page views" -- 68,500 -- than any item in the site's history.

Other "Cast Away" props up for bid included a birthday card that accompanies Wilson, whose winning bid was $565.00; and a pair of ice skates Skates may refer to:
  • Ice skate
  • Roller skates
  • Skate Skates, Family of fish
  • A nickname given to the supporters and fans of Portsmouth F.C. by their rivals, fans of Southampton F.C.
See also
  • Skate (disambiguation)
  • Skating
, which garnered more than $1,000.00.

"Cast Away," which Twentieth Century Fox released on Dec. 22, has thus far grossed nearly $120 million and broke Christmas box-office records.

Twentieth Century Fox is a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a unit of Fox Entertainment Group.
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