A&E Network Premieres Biography: Tom Hanks: the Luckiest Man in the World; World Premiere On Tuesday, December 10, 8-9pm ET/PT.Entertainment Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.120202/bb5 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002 There isn't an award in Hollywood that Tom Hanks Noun 1. Tom Hanks - United States film actor (born in 1956) Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks hasn't won -- from back to back Academy Awards for Best Actor in a leading role, to the Golden Globes, the People's Choice Award and the AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award. But for the always-humble Hanks, no award means as much to him as his wife and children. Despite the constant glare of Hollywood's spotlight, Hanks has managed to keep his private life out of the news. A&E's Network's premiere Biography(R) of Tom Hanks comes just as the Oscar winning actor's latest movie, Catch Me If You Can, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. and directed by Steven Spielberg Noun 1. Steven Spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947) Spielberg , is about to open on Christmas Day. BIOGRAPHY: TOM HANKS: The Luckiest Man in The World, premiering Tuesday, December 10, 8-9pm ET/PT, traces the actor's amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. career, from a dysfunctional childhood, through his early career as a Shakespearean actor, and finally down the sometimes bumpy bump·y adj. bump·i·er, bump·i·est 1. Covered with or full of bumps: a bumpy country road. 2. Marked by bumps and jolts; rough: a bumpy flight. road to stardom. Interviews, anecdotes from behind the scenes and little known facts about Hanks' life off screen, help round out the profile of the man who has been called "one of the nicest guys in Hollywood." Interviews include: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Sinise, Penny Marshall, Garry Marshall, Peter Scolari, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, Miranda Wilson (former high school classmate), and Hanks' former drama directors and childhood friends. Nominated for more Emmy Awards Emmy award Annual presentation for outstanding achievement in U.S. television. Its name is taken from the nickname “immy” for the image orthicon, a television camera tube. in the past two years than any other basic cable network, A&E offers a unique blend of critically acclaimed original programming, including Biography, original movies and mini-series, engaging documentary series and specials. In 2002, A&E won six Emmy Awards, including one for BIOGRAPHY as Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Informational). In 2000, A&E was awarded the Governors Award from The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for The Biography Project for Schools. A&E is available in more than 85 million Nielsen homes in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The A&E web site is located at www.AandE.com and the BIOGRAPHY web site is located at www.Biography.com. Tom sometimes hides how serious he feels about where we are today in the world. And who we are in the human race. And I think he sometimes doesn't really show in his interviews how seriously he takes, you know, where we are today in this, in society and in the world. He's a great man who I think would make a phenomenal president of the United States The head of the Executive Branch, one of the three branches of the federal government. The U.S. Constitution sets relatively strict requirements about who may serve as president and for how long. some day...if I could dream! STEVEN SPIELBERG, Director What I learned from him...it is possible to be a great actor in this business, do great work and not become crazy. And that to me is the most successful thing in the world. If you can be so great at what you do, yet still be such a great, normal guy. LEONARDO DICAPRIO, Actor A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.120202/bb5 |
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