Star Watch: Tom Hanks

[TMC]

http://lebeauleblog.com/2011/08/02/s...tch-tom-hanks/

He’s a two-time Oscar winner and one of the most well-liked and respected actors in Hollywood. Tom Hanks has long been compared favorably to the legendary Jimmy Stewart. He’s an actor audiences almost inherently relate to and cheer for. He started off as a goofball in drag and somehow managed to change course in his career to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor.

Yep, Tom Hanks road to Oscar started with a sitcom in which Hanks regularly dressed in drag. Bosom Buddies was a high concept 80′s sitcom at its worse. Hanks an co-star Peter Scolari played two guys who dressed in drag in order to live in an apartment complex for women. Hysterical! Not so much. But Hanks was the break-out star somehow managing to find the funny despite being trapped in a wig every week.

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by TMC

http://lebeauleblog.com/2011/08/02/s...tch-tom-hanks/

I don't care what anybody says... Bosom Buddies was a funny show! The concept was kind of ridiculous, but Hanks and Scolari worked so well together it didn't matter!

[robyrob]

well, obviously the guy that wrote that hasn't really been watching Hanks from the beginning - it sounds like he first saw Hanks in his breakout movies like "BIG" and just read about Bosom Buddies and made a bunch of stupid assumptions based on THAT.

Bosom Buddies was awesome; for its time it did some great things that probably don't hold up as well today as they did at the time, but it is a little unfair to judge it by that standard. Maybe some people like Tom Hanks better as a dramatic actor, to me there are million dramatic actors that do their job just as passable as the next guy and i can't tell the difference, but it takes someone special to actually be likeable and wacky and funny - you can't just act it.

To me, Joe Vs the Volcano was Hanks' last great film. I've seen the majority of his newer films and they are fine for what they are, but that's all.

[Mr. Television]

To tell you the truth, I wish Hanks would go back to his comedy roots. He was so good at it. I haven't seen a Hanks movie in awhile. The last one I saw was The Di Vinci Code which I hated. He had some great movies in the 90's but his 80's movies were special to me. I think The Burbs may be his most underrated 80's movie. I loved that one. Bosom Buddies was a great show and Hanks should be proud of it. All it tried to do was make you laugh which is what a comedy should do.

[shotzette]

Originally Posted by Skywalker

I don't care what anybody says... Bosom Buddies was a funny show! The concept was kind of ridiculous, but Hanks and Scolari worked so well together it didn't matter!

Agreed! It was silly, but the chemistry and timing that Hanks and Scolari shared made it work. I also loved the late Wendie Jo Sperber; she stole every scene that she was in.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by Mr. Television

To tell you the truth, I wish Hanks would go back to his comedy roots. He was so good at it. I haven't seen a Hanks movie in awhile. The last one I saw was The Di Vinci Code which I hated. He had some great movies in the 90's but his 80's movies were special to me. I think The Burbs may be his most underrated 80's movie. I loved that one. Bosom Buddies was a great show and Hanks should be proud of it. All it tried to do was make you laugh which is what a comedy should do.

Peter Bart: Is Tom Hanks Trapped In His Jimmy Stewart Persona?

[king of comedy]

He is the Jimmy Stewart of my time.

[TMC]

I was just thinking that in retrospect, did the fact that Tom Hanks becoming such a big star become awfully surprising considering that his big break as an actor was dressing in drag on Bosom Buddies?