"Kirk Douglas was on 'The Tonight Show,' talking about his memoir. He kept writing and re-writing, a skill he jokes he learned from watching Johnny Carson. She says, 'There's something here, but it's got no DNA to it.'" "And she said, 'Yes, it's definitely a thing. "I sent it to her and I said, 'Is this anything? Is this a thing?'" he recalled. But when it came to writing his appreciation of Striepeke, Hanks asked for help from his friend, the late writer-director Nora Ephron. Striepeke, a 40-veteran of Hollywood, had transformed Hanks into everything from a bedraggled castaway, to a young man named Forrest. And I don't mean done, I mean done done!'" "He was 75, and he called me up and he said, 'Kid, I gotta tell you. The first thing he remembers writing, other than a script, was a farewell to his longtime make-up artist, Danny Striepeke. "Uh, no, uh … yeah (laughs)." Typewriters, at the Gramercy Typewriter Company in New York City. You can control a certain amount of your fate in the direction that it goes in, but there's also times when you just throw yourself up to the void and hope, you know, some fairy dust is sprinkled upon your efforts." "Well, I can't say I ever, like, stopped once, said 'Black Jack!' I never necessarily felt that way. "But that feeling when you do finish a sentence or a paragraph and you know you've gotten it, is great," said Cowan.
That's the beast, and you just keep plowing away at it." "Something that was more than just the one-damn-thing-after-another of writing. "As far as the solitary, hard labor of being a writer, I think I thought there was some kind of trick to it, that I would never be able to master," he said. We all cross some brand of barrier like that - a river, a boundary, an event, that is our own personal Rubicon."ĭespite that vivid description, Hanks wasn't at all sure that he had a book in him. "There's a moment that goes like this (snaps) when you leave one and begin the other. "There is a tick of a clock," Hanks said. He wondered, too, about Jim Lovell, the astronaut he played in "Apollo 13," and what it must have felt like to feel the pull of the Moon's gravity instead of the Earth's. "And I always thought, how did these guys set up the electric trains around the Christmas tree in 1954? How did they do that?" "The third act of these guys' lives are things that I always wondered about," Hanks said. You won't find Private Ryan in his book, but you will find two World War II Army buddies who reconnect every year on Christmas Eve. "In some ways it's like I'm going back and looking at those times, for me and my siblings, and trying to put context on the confusion."īesides his own life, Hanks also drew inspiration from his big-screen life, too. We didn't know why! They were good people! We just were moving we just had new people in our lives. "And I thought of it as kind of like a cool adventure. "When I was 10 years old, both my parents had already been married three times, and I'd lived in 10 different houses," he said. His short stories - 17 in all - are not about typewriters, nor are they really about Tom Hanks, although you may catch glimpses of him, including his life growing up in a fractured home.
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