Tom Hanks Profile – Episode #23 (February 3rd, 2015)

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4.9 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Popcorn Talk proudly presents Profiles with Malone and Mantz! In this vodcast series hosts Alicia Malone and Scott "Movie" Mantz break down and focus on some of the most prolific Hollywood directors, writers and actors in the entertainment industry - past & present. Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His father had English, and some German, ancestry, while his mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese. Tom grew up in what he has called a "fractured" family. He moved around a lot after his parents' divorce, living with a succession of step-families. No problems, no abuse, no alcoholism - just a confused childhood. He had no acting experience in college and, in fact, credits the fact that he couldn't get cast in a college play with actually starting his career. He went downtown, auditioned for a community theater play, was invited by the director of tha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Welcome to the Popcorn Talk Network.
0:32.7	For the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news and interviews, press one.
0:39.5	Popcorn Talk, we talk movies.
0:52.3	From the Popcorn Talk Network, the online broadcast network for Movie Talk,
0:56.3	Alicia Malone with Scott Movimance and the Schmo's Know.
0:59.3	This is Profile.
1:00.9	In-depth spotlights on the greatest filmmakers and artists in motion picture history.
1:05.9	Hello, Schmovil.
1:08.7	Welcome to episode 23 of Profiles. We're back from Sundance. What a time. 20 movies each. And we still had time to do our research and our homework for our profiles. This one was really, really worth it. We are spotlighting the one and only two-time Academy Award
1:29.1	winner Tom Hanks. And we have a very special guest in the studio. Yes, we do right here. Wilson!
1:36.6	Wilson is here with us. He made it off the island. Don't go away, Wilson. We don't want to
1:43.3	break down and make our
1:45.4	profilers cry just like Tom Hanks did in that movie. But don't worry, profilers. We actually do
1:50.5	have a real special guest later in the show. But joining us right now for moral support
1:56.8	is Wilson the volleyball. Wilson. So, okay, Alicia.
2:02.1	Now, I know we say this every week.
2:03.6	When it comes to doing our fast five, picking our favorite movies.
2:07.1	Oh, this was hard.
2:08.0	This was, without question, the hardest.
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