European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Myk Elti Williamson meets Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump which opens Friday in military Heaters. Paramount Hanks Back with performance in Forrest Gump by Douglas Armstrong the Milwaukee journal when friends asked Tom Hanks if Hewan t repeating himself playing the childlike Man named Forrest Gump it gave him a moment s pause. The comparison to a was inevitable. Physically there is the same naivete and inno Cence Hanks admits. But there is a huge differ ence Between being a Little boy in a Man s body and being a Man in a Man s body. So i always said we can t play on that same the Gawky direct and drawling result is the Cen Ter piece of the movie Forrest Gump which opens Friday on the cafes circuit. While you might legitimately describe this Robert Zemeckis creation As a Cross Between rain Man and 2zelig, it also has the indefinable stamp of a True original. Zemeckis thrusts the credit on Hanks. His performance amazes me because i know How wildly out of continuity we shot All of it he says. Tom s chore in this film was to actually grow As a character. And i have never seen anything so subtly Brilliant and perfectly the fictional character of Gump is simple and slow witted but quite extraordinary a southerner whose life inexplicably touches great and Small men. Hank built his performance he says like a deck of cards one card at a the process began when he read the Winston Groom novel on which the film is based Gump is the most unusual character you will meet on the screen this summer. With the Aid of computer generated special effects that place him in historical documentary footage he ricochets across three turbulent decades of history. America loses its inno Cence. Forrest blithely hangs on to his own there s not a judgmental Bone in his body Hanks says because his mama would not allow Forrest Gump review on Page 10 calling . Cool to kids Leno in vegas by Paul Lomartire Palm Beach Fla Post of. Is getting 14,000 letters each week in jail. And there Are so Many Calls to the los Angeles . S office from Wacky people who want to talk about of. And the Menendez Brothers that a special hot line to tape comments or questions has been set up. Think it s a joke it s 213 974-3975. Go ahead try it after 30 straight Days of to talk the fall program preview is finished. And the Only Hope for a certified runaway hit is if . S trial moves to prime time. Meanwhile Here Are a few prime info nuggets you need to know Northern disclosure did you Ever wonder Why other than Shelly s baby there Are never kids on Northern exposure1 there is never anyone under 21 in Cicely. Why the characters Are childlike themselves said Diane Frolov one of the show s producers. Chil Dren on the show would be yeah right. She says that kids even As extras Are expensive. They need tutors and Are hard to work with. At least she s honest Melissa Gilbert Hyp ing her fall Abc series Sweet Justice in which she plays a Southern lawyer was asked Why she pumped out five to movies last year. Each one had its own reason she began. One was irresistible because of the role. One was Irre Sisti such things. He May be a human being Given Over to the same emotions an feelings that we Are. But the thing i like about Forrest is he goes through All of these eras of american history and he meets All these people with no editorializing to it whatsoever. No Finger pointing. No intellectual not unlike Hanks himself who defends the movie against accusations that it takes a less than glowing View of anti War protests the drug culture political Militancy and such. I feel no particular affection for the 60s," he says. If i go Back to the confusion i experienced in the 1960s As a 13 and 14-year-old, everybody was angry everybody was shouting at everybody nobody was right and everybody was wrong then i put that into my experience in the 70s, which is As worthless a decade As you re Ever going to find in any millennium then go to the 80s, which had become this kind of hard edged Glossy image is All kind of thing. I Don t have affection for any of those decades. Nor do i have any great distaste for them. That s just what it was and that s just what we went there was one other grueling piece of preparation for the film movie Boot Camp for the War sequences. It was conducted by retired Marine capt. Dale Dye who worked on Oliver Stone s platoon and other Vietnam movies. He would not allow us to enact soldiers in Viet Nam without doing it a very specific Way Hanks says. We were kind of scared of Captain Dye there for a while. He wanted to make sure we knew How to properly Hump our packs All Day Long in the hot Southern California but Dye also answered the Riddle of How to por tray Forrest in the is it Duck privates time Hanks says. Is he going to be Gomer Pyle Here and Dale Dye came in and said hey Forrest Gumps made the Best sol Diers there were. They did exactly As they were told and we said there you have it " in the army Forrest Gump also learns to play pingpong like a fiend. He plays it with breathtaking skill. Where did Hanks learn How to play like that pingpong was the magic of special effects he admits and smiles. Some of it. Most of it was scrupps Howard news Sonvico ble because of the location. One was a Chance to work with my Fiance. One was strictly for Money. I m totally which one for cold Cash the baby maker the or. Cecil Jacobson Story Iff you say so it sure beats pantyhose in a Debrah Farentinos explaining her preference for working on the fall Abc Sci i series Earth 2 in new Mexico rather than her role on the Abc series Nyp Blue show Biz doctor i left Medicine As a service to my patients. I was a really terrible that s what Michael Crichton a millionaire author of Jurassic part who created the fall Abc drama or said when asked Why he quit Medicine before finishing an internship. And finally Abc s first to announce. Its fall schedule begins sunday sept. 18. The next night Jay Leno takes the tonight show o Las vegas for a week. Cox news service August 14, 1994 sunday Page 9
