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How Juror Tom Hanks Got Guy a Reduced Charge

Whoops: Lawyer spoke to actor serving jury duty

(Newser) - Tom Hanks was just trying to do his civic duty, and he ended up inadvertently messing up a trial. Hanks was serving on a jury in LA this week, but when a lawyer in the City Attorney's Office made the mistake of talking to the actor, the case had...

Most Tony Nods: Cyndi Lauper-Scored Kinky Boots

Tom Hanks also snags a nomination for 'Lucky Guy'

(Newser) - The Cyndi Lauper-scored Kinky Boots has earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with the British import Matilda: The Musical close behind with 12. Kinky Boots is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear; Lauper's...

Timberlake Rocks Star-Studded SNL

JT becomes one of the Five Timers' Club

(Newser) - It was Justin Timberlake's fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live last night, and the singer brought his Suit & Tie to knock it out of a star-studded park, notes the Hollywood Reporter , which calls the episode "the biggest of 2013." In his opening monologue, he was joined...

Shia LaBeouf Quits Broadway Play...
Shia LaBeouf Quits Broadway Play...
Feb 21, 2013 10:44 AM CST

Shia LaBeouf Quits Broadway Play...

And a feud with Alec Baldwin might be to blame

(Newser) - Shia LaBeouf was set to make his Broadway debut in Orphans, but the actor has walked away from the production less than a month before previews were set to begin. The initial news release cited only "creative differences" for LaBeouf's departure, the Los Angeles Times reported. But LaBeouf...

12 Actors Who Have Belittled Their Own Movies

And why we only get mad about it sometimes

(Newser) - Cloud Atlas certainly has inspired its stars to diss their past projects. On Chelsea Lately Tuesday, Halle Berry reminisced about how she met her fiance Olivier Martinez "on a s**t movie, Us reports. She was referring to Dark Tide, which came out earlier this year and did not perform...

Cloud Atlas Fizzles
 Cloud Atlas Fizzles 
box office
Oct 28, 2012 1:38 PM CDT

Cloud Atlas Fizzles

While Ben Affleck's 'Argo' rises to the top

(Newser) - Either Argo triumphed at the weekend box office, or Hollywood's other offerings were just too weak to compete, the LA Times reports. Ben Affleck's rescue thriller snagged the top spot in its third week with $12.4 million—the year's second-lowest No.1—followed by The Possession...

Cloud Atlas Tackles Too Much —But See It Anyway

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry star in Wachowski-Tykwer epic film

(Newser) - The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer may have bitten off more than they—or anyone—could chew in attempting to make a film out of David Mitchell's enormous, past-and-future spanning novel Cloud Atlas. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and a host of others, it's a visual treat, but critics...

Tom Hanks Performs Slam Poem About ... Full House

On 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'

(Newser) - Just when you thought F-bomb-dropping Tom Hanks could not possibly get any cooler, he goes on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and performs a slam poem about … a 1990s sitcom. "Full House, house full of men. Danny, Jesse, Joey, father, uncle, friend," intoned a very serious Hanks...

Tom Hanks Drops F-Bomb on Good Morning America

Mortified actor immediately apologizes

(Newser) - Tom Hanks dropped an F-bomb on Good Morning America today, and he did it as only Tom Hanks could—ie, in the nicest way possible. Hanks was showing off one of the accents he uses in his upcoming film Cloud Atlas, and he must have really been in character because...

Tom Hanks to Make Broadway Debut

He's the star of new Nora Ephron play

(Newser) - Tom Hanks' collaboration with Nora Ephron has lasted beyond the grave. The actor, who worked with the screenwriter and director in Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail, will make his Broadway debut in a drama written by Ephron, who died in June , reports Reuters . In Lucky Guy, which...

Tom Hanks Apologizes for Blackface Video

Conservatives try linking 2004 video to actor's support for Obama

(Newser) - Tom Hanks has apologized for a 2004 video—calling it "hideously offensive"—that shows him and Glenn Frey from the Eagles playfully interacting with a man in blackface at a fundraising event at his son's school, reports the New York Daily News . The video surfaced Tuesday on...

New Obama Video Is Pure &#39;Docu-Ganda&#39;
 New Obama Video  
 Is Pure 'Docu-Ganda' 
OPINIONs
Mar 16, 2012 9:15 AM CDT

New Obama Video Is Pure 'Docu-Ganda'

'Road We've Traveled' is slick, but it's a campaign ad

(Newser) - Just a week after the trailer for the Obama re-election film hit the Internet, the full 17-minute version of The Road We've Traveled is now out on YouTube, reports USA Today . Narrated by Tom Hanks and directed by David Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), Road is a slick look at...

Get Ready for Obama the Movie

David Guggenheim, Tom Hanks involved in 17-minute campaign flick

(Newser) - Based on its trailer, The Road We've Traveled looks like a Hollywood documentary about President Obama's first term in office, boasting impressive talent like Tom Hanks, who provides the voiceover, and Davis Guggenheim, who directed. But watch until the very end and you'll see a screen reading,...

Tom Hanks' New Sci-Fi Series to Debut on Yahoo

Electric City to feature post-apocalyptic world

(Newser) - Tom Hanks will soon release his long-in-the-works futuristic animated series—where else?—on the web. Twenty episodes of Electric City, just four minutes or so each, will premiere on Yahoo this spring. The series features an apparently peaceful city in a post-apocalyptic world, and deals with political and social issues...

Tom Hanks Reimburses Pair Who Panned His Movie

Actor gives couple $25 out of his own pocket

(Newser) - Aww, Tom Hanks really is just as nice as he seems ... at least according to the National Enquirer. The tabloid claims the Larry Crowne writer, director, and star recently ran into a couple at a California gas station who had just seen the critically-panned movie . It "wasn't that...

Celeb Privacy Breach Costs UCLA Hospitals $865K

Britney Spears, Farah Fawcett, Arnold Schwarzenegger had files breached

(Newser) - Years after hospital employees were accused of snooping into the medical records of celebrity patients, UCLA Health System agreed to pay an $865,000 settlement for potential violations of federal privacy laws. The settlement that UCLA reached with federal regulators Wednesday did not name the stars specifically involved. The investigation...

Larry Crowne Reviews: Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks Movie Is Mediocre at Best
 Larry Crowne Isn't Really 
 Romantic—or Funny 
MOVIE REVIEWs
Jul 1, 2011 1:05 PM CDT

Larry Crowne Isn't Really Romantic—or Funny

Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks movie doesn't live up to promise

(Newser) - Critics are finding plenty to laugh at in Larry Crowne, just not much of what writer/director/star Tom Hanks planned on. With a 36% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes , the romantic-comedy co-starring Julia Roberts is about a middle-aged man making huge changes, but there's little you haven't seen a...

Meet Tom Hanks, Spanish Weatherman

Actor goofs off on Univision

(Newser) - Tom Hanks went on Univision's Despierta America ostensibly to promote his upcoming film Larry Crowne. But things took a turn for the wacky when he got involved with the weather report, PopEater reports. Hanks and co-host Chiquinquira Delgado spent most of the time dancing around as Delgado tried to...

10 Worst Casting Choices Ever

Starring Tom Hanks

(Newser) - DC detective Alex Cross was once played by Morgan Freeman; now, the role’s going to Tyler Perry, the cross-dressing comedian and Madea star. The Daily Beast recalls 10 other embarrassing casting decisions:
  1. The Da Vinci Code: Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. He’s no “Harrison Ford in Harris
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Tyra Banks, Tom Hanks, Miley Cyrus, and More Awful Celebrity Rappers
 15 Odd, Awful Celeb Rappers  
Oct 19, 2010 12:10 PM CDT

15 Odd, Awful Celeb Rappers

No, Tom Hanks. Just ... no

(Newser) - Sometimes otherwise-talented celebrities—here's looking at you, Eva Longoria—decide they really need to rap … terribly. Jezebel rounds up 15 unlikely rappers who really should not quit their day jobs. Watch a sampling in the gallery, or click here for the complete list. Yes, The Situation’s awful self-titled...

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