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He Wanted to Boldly Go Where No Man Had Gone Before
Tom Hanks is a Trekkie. Or is that politically incorrect? Is it Trekker now? Are people seriously debating this? Anyway, Tom's such a massive "Trek" fan that he talked Patrick Stewart's hair -- we mean ear -- off about "The Next Generation" when they first met. In fact, Tom was slated to play Zefram Cochrane in 1996's "Star Trek: First Contact" but was busy with his directorial debut, "That Thing You Do!" So the role went instead to Babe's pig farmer, James Cromwell.
He Inspired "In and Out"
In 1994, Hanks won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a gay, AIDS-afflicted attorney in "Philadelphia." In his acceptance speech he thanked his high school drama teacher, Rawley Farnsworth, referring to him along with a former classmate as "two of the finest gay Americans." Only problem: Farnsworth was still in the closet at the time, so Tom accidentally outed him on worldwide TV. The moment inspired the movie "In & Out," starring Matt Dillon as an actor who inadvertently reveals the same secret about his high school English teacher, played by Kevin Kline. Perhaps as penance, Hanks helped fund renovations for the newly renamed Rawley T. Farnsworth Theater at his alma mater, Skyline High School in Oakland, California, in 2002.
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?
Tom Hanks as Zephram Cochrane?
He Wanted to Boldly Go Where No Man Had Gone Before
Tom Hanks is a Trekkie. Or is that politically incorrect? Is it Trekker now? Are people seriously debating this? Anyway, Tom's such a massive "Trek" fan that he talked Patrick Stewart's hair -- we mean ear -- off about "The Next Generation" when they first met. In fact, Tom was slated to play Zefram Cochrane in 1996's "Star Trek: First Contact" but was busy with his directorial debut, "That Thing You Do!" So the role went instead to Babe's pig farmer, James Cromwell.
He Inspired "In and Out"
In 1994, Hanks won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a gay, AIDS-afflicted attorney in "Philadelphia." In his acceptance speech he thanked his high school drama teacher, Rawley Farnsworth, referring to him along with a former classmate as "two of the finest gay Americans." Only problem: Farnsworth was still in the closet at the time, so Tom accidentally outed him on worldwide TV. The moment inspired the movie "In & Out," starring Matt Dillon as an actor who inadvertently reveals the same secret about his high school English teacher, played by Kevin Kline. Perhaps as penance, Hanks helped fund renovations for the newly renamed Rawley T. Farnsworth Theater at his alma mater, Skyline High School in Oakland, California, in 2002.
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?
Tom Hanks as Zephram Cochrane?
