Tom Hanks is a Wife Beater? ...But He Doesn't Even WEAR Wife Beaters
This is almost too much for me to grasp this morning:
Tom Hanks is a wifebeater and he stole the Oscar-winning idea of "Forrest Gump" from his brother's role in a soft-core porn.
It can't be true. Breathe, xine...it's going to be ok. Here's the super-juicy story:
In newly unearthed court papers published in the upcoming bio "The Tom Hanks Enigma," by David Gardner, actress Susan Dillingham charges that Hanks harassed her and attempted to kill her career. "My husband has repeatedly verbally abused and humiliated me during the past 90 days in my home. This caused me to suffer great emotional distress," Dillingham wrote an L.A. court in asking for a restraining order against Hanks. Dillingham, whose stage name was Samantha Lewes, died from bone cancer in 2002. Ugh...my mother just died from bone cancer too. During their messy divorce, which began in 1985 and dragged on for three years, the actress said Hanks tried to force her into depositions as she took the lead roles in a series of plays. "[It's] designed to harass and upset me at a time when I should be focusing all of my energies on my job," she wrote in one legal missive. Hanks shot back in his own legal filing, alleging that Dillingham was delaying a divorce trial "merely to harass me and try to squeeze an unfair settlement out of me." The couple - college sweethearts who wed after their son, Colin, was born in 1977 - began to have problems when Hanks' career took off in hits like "Splash" and Dillingham's stalled. They also had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1982.
"Tom was spending less and less time at home . . . [and] with two children to care for and a husband who was away for long stretches . . . it was difficult [for her] to get work," Gardner writes. A year after the divorce, Hanks wed actress Rita Wilson. Gardner also reveals that Hanks' kid brother, Jim, played a Forrest Gump-type character in a little-known soft-core sex flick two years before Tom created the role that won him an Oscar. In "Buford's Beach Bunnies," Jim invented the "now-famous jerky run associated with Forrest Gump" and, like Gump, showed a shy politeness toward women by calling them "ma'am," the author says.
That's it...I'm never ruling Tom Hanks out of a Blind Vice/Guessing Game again! [source]
4 comments:
Wasn't Forest Gump based on a book?
Yep. The story is from PageSix so I can't exactly tell you what they mean. I think what they're trying insinuate the way Tom portrays the character is based on the character the bro played in the porn. What do you think? :)
I think this is insane! Not my Tom.
God I have too much time on my hands...I looked it up on wikipedia and it says the leg braces weren't in the book, so presumably he wouldn't run funny. No mention of whether he calls women Ma'am, but it does say he's an idioty savant in the book, not a naive fool, but how much of that was Hanks' decision and how much was the director's is anybody's guess. At least the idea that he's based on a porn character should help me enjoy the movie more in the future :)
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