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He's Related to Honest Abe
Tom isn't one of those actors with political aspirations, but the Oval Office is in his blood. Sure, it's four generations removed, but still, we were surprised to learn that Tom and the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, share an ancestor, John Hanks (1680-1740), who was Honest Abe's great-great-grandfather and Tom's great-great-great-great-grandfather. So Lincoln and Hanks are third cousins, four times removed. That's way better than being Dick Cheney's eighth cousin, huh, President Obama?
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On Celebrity Reality TV Trainwrecks...
Chopergirl said "I have always loved her. She has been a very good part of entertainment - I remember when she was in Roots. AND then CHEERS, and then the talking babies with John Travolta. My gosh, we all have problems, and with those come stress eating at times...She is beautiful regardless of what she weighs, and not only physically beautiful, but also beautiful inside. She has had her heart broke just like the rest of us, and struggles like the rest of us....to bad people expect her to be perfect as that is what imperfect people like to see - someone perfect to make them feel better. Projecting their OWN disappointment onto others, in some sick way, makes them feel a little better. That is a terrible post about her. I will watch her show."
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On Celebrity Reality TV Trainwrecks...Sardonica said "How is she anymore a train wreck than ANY body else, celebrity or not? We all have our issues. She is at least trying to better herself, not trash those around her, or laugh at the misfortunes of others. You're as bad as Perez. YOU are the one that needs to get a life, not her. "
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On Oprah's Love Couch Confessionals...ratt said "Don't the people who read this crap have anything at all better to worry about? Is it REALLY any of your concern what this movie star or that musician is up to in their personal lives? Did any of you useless tabloid bottom feeding twats notice that I used the word PERSONAL? Not likely, because the people that read this stuff don't think anyone has a life that they can't have access to. A word for those who have nothing better to do than concern themselves about others in the spotlight... pathetic."
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babs5777
May 17, 2009 - 05:57 AM GMT
DO ANYBODY REMEMBER HIS FIRST MOVIE WITH DARRAYL HANNAH " SPLASH" ?
Broken Trail Farms
May 17, 2009 - 05:56 AM GMT
Leaving your wife and your 2 children to marry your MISTRESS is NOT the HONORABLE thing to do. What happend to for better or for worse. I don't remember a clause in my vows that said "Until something better comes along"!!! Who CARES how good of an actor or entertainer he is. He has no morals.
hrenjohn
May 17, 2009 - 05:53 AM GMT
eh
nursenut
May 17, 2009 - 03:24 AM GMT
Enjoyed his work in Gump and Philadelphia however agree that he is in that circle of "elite's" that think all the world needs to listen to their political opinions and causes. Personally I think that it is sick how overpaid all our Hollywood superstars are - the cast of Friends made over 100 million dollars each???? and I agree that morally, they are all bankrupt, but he is an appealing actor.....
val_falero
May 17, 2009 - 02:34 AM GMT
Tom Hanks will go down in history as being one of the great ones. He's mad us laugh, cry and think. I have seen and loved all of his movies, even Joe vs the Volcano. His one of the finest actors of our time. When we watch him on the big screen as an actor, he belongs to us, his adoring fans. When it comes to his private life, which he is entitled to have, and is not being paid to perform, who he is marrietd to or not married to becomes his own private business, and none of ours. When the camera stops rolling, at the end of the day, he's just a regualr guy, so lets give him the opportunity to be just that, after all, is that waht we all want?
RickinHong Kong
May 17, 2009 - 02:11 AM GMT
Tom is a great actor. But he's a pinhead for making two anti-Catholic films that stretch the truth farther than taffy.
MoBettaBlues
May 17, 2009 - 02:00 AM GMT
You forgot to mention his ties with the Illuminati
storage
May 17, 2009 - 01:44 AM GMT
Sorry...if you cheat on your wife (the mother of your two children) and then dump her for the ho you cheated with, you aren't a nice guy, you are a scumbag...that's right, Tom Hanks is a great actor...AND a scumbag.
bpfaffo
May 17, 2009 - 01:30 AM GMT
Hey "concerned" your a jackass! Mr. Intellectual........
Teach
May 17, 2009 - 01:27 AM GMT
To Concerned. If you can't spell "radical" correctly or use proper grammar, then you should just shut up because you aren't very intelligent either. At least Tom Hanks can act. You can't even write a half way decent attack on him.