Книга: Hanks Tom «Uncommon Type»

Uncommon Type

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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce. Four friends going to the moon and back in a rocket ship constructed in the backyard. A teenage surfer stumbling into his father's secret life. These are just some of the people and situations that Tom Hanks explores in his first work of fiction, a collection of stories that dissects, with great affection, humour and insight, the human condition and all its foibles. The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central. To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In his stories, Mr Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level. Known for his honesty and sensitivity as an actor, Mr Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing. Alternatingly whimsical, moving and occasionally melancholy, Uncommon Type is a book that will delight as well as surprise his millions of fans. It also establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction, a voice that perceptively delves beneath the surface of friendships, families, love and normal, everyday behaviour.

Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2018)

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Hanks, Tom

orig. Thomas J. Hanks

born July 9, 1956, Concord, Calif., U.S.

U.S. film actor.

He displayed a flair for light comedy in the television series Bosom Buddies (1980–82) then became a film star in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). After winning praise for A League of Their Own (1992) and the romantic hit Sleepless in Seattle (1993), he proved himself an accomplished dramatic actor in Philadelphia (1993, Academy Award), Forrest Gump (1994, Academy Award), Apollo 13 (1995), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Cast Away (2000). He made his debut as director and screenwriter with That Thing You Do (1996).

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▪ 1995

      For his gripping portrayal in the film Philadelphia—as a gay, AIDS-stricken lawyer embroiled in a discrimination suit against the law firm that had fired him—U.S. actor Tom Hanks was presented in 1994 with both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe award. The dramatic role, for which he shed 35 pounds and thinned his hair, was a vast departure from his many performances in light comedies. Hanks had built a loyal following by portraying characters that blended qualities of Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable—the amiable, affable, and approachable boy-next-door with good looks and charm.

      Thomas J. Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, Calif. He was a shy, responsible child who frequently traveled with his father after his parents divorced in 1961. As an undergraduate at California State University, Hanks was attracted to acting because he thought it would provide an opportunity for him to express himself flamboyantly. During 1976-78 he dropped out of school to become an acting intern at what was then the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood, Ohio. After winning the Cleveland Critics Circle award for playing Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hanks received his first taste of the adulation accorded an actor. Two years after arriving (1978) in New York City, Hanks landed the part of cross-dresser Kip Wilson in the television show "Bosom Buddies." Hanks's flair for light comedy was admired by director Ron Howard, who helped expand Hanks's career into motion pictures with Splash (1984), a blockbuster romantic comedy about a mermaid in love with a human. During the following decade, Hanks further sharpened his considerable talents in such mediocre films as The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), The Money Pit (1986), Punchline (1988), and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).

      His nomination for an Academy Award as best actor in the 1988 comedy Big and the success of A League of Their Own (1992) marked Hanks as a major Hollywood leading-man-in-waiting. It was not until 1993, however, that he cemented his reputation as a serious actor. In that year he starred as a widower who discovered his true love via a radio talk show in the megahit movie Sleepless in Seattle and then as the lead in Philadelphia. In the summer of 1994, Hanks portrayed the title role in the film Forrest Gump, which was released to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim. His character, an ever hopeful, guileless, simple-minded man on whom fate smiled, philosophized that "Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get." Most movie audiences agreed that Tom Hanks was blessed with the best of the box in 1994. (SUSAN RAPP)

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▪ American actor
in full  Thomas J. Hanks 
born July 9, 1956, Concord, California, U.S.

      American film actor whose cheerful, everyman persona made him a natural for starring roles in many popular films. In the 1990s he expanded his comedic repertoire and began portraying lead characters in dramas.

      After a nomadic childhood, Hanks majored in drama at California State University and performed in summer stock in Cleveland, Ohio, playing a variety of classical roles. In the late 1970s he moved to New York City, where he had a small part in a horror film in 1980.

      Hanks gained notice for his comic abilities as a costar of the television series Bosom Buddies (1980–82). His work in the hit film Splash (1984) earned him leads in other comedies, including Bachelor Party (1984), Volunteers (1985), and The Money Pit (1986). He successfully mixed comedy with drama in Nothing in Common (1986) and Punchline (1988), and his portrayal of a boy in an adult body in Big (1988) earned him an Oscar nomination and launched him on the path to becoming one of the era's most popular stars.

      Hanks portrayed the drunken manager of a women's baseball team in the popular comedy A League of Their Own (1992) and delivered an Oscar-winning performance as a gay lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia (1993). The following year he won a best actor award again, for the phenomenally popular Forrest Gump (1994); he was the first actor to win back-to-back best actor Oscars since Spencer Tracy (Tracy, Spencer).

      Hanks earned further Oscar nominations for outstanding dramatic performances in Saving Private Ryan (1998), which was directed by Steven Spielberg (Spielberg, Steven), and Cast Away (2000). He teamed with actress Meg Ryan for the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); starred in the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), and Road to Perdition (2002); and provided the voice for the animated cowboy Woody in the Disney hits Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999). Hanks later starred with Leonardo DiCaprio (DiCaprio, Leonardo) in the comedy Catch Me If You Can (2002) and portrayed a professor of symbology in the 2006 film adaptation of Dan Brown's hugely popular The Da Vinci Code. In Charlie Wilson's War (2007), he appeared as real-life senator Charlie Wilson, who assisted the Afghan resistance to the Soviets in the 1980s. In addition to his acting, Hanks wrote and directed the comedy That Thing You Do! (1996).

Additional Reading
Roy Trakin, Tom Hanks: Journey to Stardom, updated ed. (1995).

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Источник: Hanks, Tom

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