The volleyball was named Wilson as in the name of the manufacturer of the ball.

school bus

Nominated along with Hanks in the category for 1994 were Morgan Freeman for "The Shawshank Redemption"; Nigel Hawthorne for "The Madness of King George"; Paul Newman for "Nobody's Fool"; and John Travolta for "Pulp Fiction."

When Hanks won, he became the first person since Spencer Tracy in 1937 and 1938 to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars. Hanks had won the year before for his performance in the 1993 film "Philadelphia."

In the 2006 computer-animation, Cars, Tom Hanks did a cameo of Woody Car. This was the character he played in the Toy Story movies. His voice was not in Cars 2.

Tom Hanks appeared in three episodes of the TV show Family Ties, twice in 1983 and once in 1984, all three times as character Ned Donnelly.

Yeah, Tom Hanks is 6 years older, though Tom Cruise looks like 10 years younger than Tom Hanks!

He was or was involved with it during childhood.

Yes, he had to rehearse for many hours.

Rita Wilson went to Hollywood High School in California and after that, studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England.

She leanred how to play one for the movie Music of the Heart

No, he is not a singer with any group. An e-mail is going around saying that Toms Dad is A member of the DIAMONDS, the group who sang Little Darling. It is false.

80% of "Forrest Gump" was shot in South Carolina, so yes, in one way, Tom Hanks certainly "ran" through the state. SC stood in for Mississippi, Alabama, and even the Vietnam scenes. However, during the running period of the film, SC is never identified. Much of the 2nd Unit work involved actually going on location (Maine, CA, NC, AZ) using Tom Hanks' brother as his stand in (or in this case, "run" in).

~SC Film Commission

Tom Hanks' currently lives in the Los Angeles area. His Pacific Palisades villa is up for sale, but he still has his Brentwood home. He's used to California as he was born in Concord and both his parents were born in the state.

He collects typewriters

She's not.

he gets pooped on.

Tom Hanks has had 20 100 million movies

From 1992-2004:Tom Hanks starred in 15 movies.14 of them crossed 100 million,

After 2004-Tom Hanks has 5 100 million movies out of 8 movies

2 Oscars

5 Nominations

Tom Hanks is the most successfull star in history

Tom Hanks is a collector and enjoys collecting typewriters and has over 80 in his collection. He enjoys watching Law and Order and enjoys music.

No group at all. There wasn't nearly enough room in the shower.

Two men named Tom have won Oscars for acting. Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for playing Marshall Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive (1993). Tom Hanks won the Oscar for Best Actor for playing Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia (1993) and for playing Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994).

In the movie You've Got Mail (1998) Over the Rainbow was sung by Harry Nilsson. It is on the soundtrack CD and runs for 3min 31sec.

Tom Hanks listens to the aria La Mamma Morta from the opera Andrea Chenier. It is based on the French poet by the same name.

The Tom Hanks movie "The Polar Express" is about a Christmas train. It is a computer-animated children's film from 2004. The music of the film was composed by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri.

Original book was "man with one black shoe". Read description of movie on Wiki. Red films well, if that is "significant".