Tom Hanks is always looking out for you — yes, you!
That's why teenage Hanks wrote an extremely polite and earnest letter to George Roy Hill, director of The Sting, asking Hill to help him make it in Hollywood. Hanks was modest; he didn't explain to Hill that America needed an extremely pleasant superstar, but he must have known. He did this for us
NPR recently unearthed the gem at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills
"No one outside of Skyline High School has heard of me," writes Hanks before referring to himself as "not stunning." Still, Hanks, being the overgrown puppy of a person he is, kindly asks Hill to consider giving him a break and proposes a few scenarios for his potential discovery to make things easier on the director Read more...
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