Tom Hanks apparently liked being divorced too much to star in When Harry Met Sally
Tom Hanks' wife Rita Wilson claims her husband just couldn't relate to Harry being bummed about his split
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An actor’s job is to inhabit the mindset of a character, often characters who are completely different from themselves. Tom Hanks is quite different from Forrest Gump or Elvis’ Colonel Tom Parker, for instance, but he still managed to imbue those characters with humanity and make them believable. (Your mileage may vary.) But the one thing he can’t do—or perhaps more accurately, refused to do—is pretend like he’s unhappily divorced when he was actually pretty stoked about the end of his marriage.
“People probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered When Harry Met Sally and he turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to be not married,” Hanks’ current wife, Rita Wilson, dished on the “Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi” podcast (via Today). “And so he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would have anything other than just like, ‘I’m so happy.’”
Hanks was apparently over the moon to be ending his relationship with Samantha Lewes around the time of When Harry Met Sally, whereas the character of Harry gets pretty bummed out about the dissolution of his own marriage in the movie. Speaking with Variety for the 30th anniversary of the film in 2019, director Rob Reiner said that Albert Brooks and Hanks were in the mix to play the role. If Hanks had been less excited about his split, he would have logged three iconic Nora Ephron-penned romantic comedy collaborations with the film’s other star, Meg Ryan.
Instead, it would eventually go to Billy Crystal, of whom Reiner “had no reservations” about playing Harry. He did, however, have another concern: “The fear I had was, ‘What if you would [work] with a friend and it doesn’t work out, are we going to destroy a friendship?” he told Variety. Luckily, that fear didn’t come to pass. “It turned out way better than anything I could have imagined because not only was he great in the part, it made our friendship better.” And Hanks got to enjoy being happily divorced—it’s a win-win-win.
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Samantha Lewes catching strays 35 years later even though she’s been dead since 2002? Brutal.
Kind of wonder what Colin Hanks thinks reading stuff like this as well.
It’s just a whiff of why Chet Hanks is how he is with the domestic issues and how women are always the “crazy” ones to him. I don’t think Tom Hanks is a complete bad guy but I think the general public has overblown the nice guy thing and mistaken nice for restraining yourself from telling it all.
I don’t have a lot of faith in human nature, so to me, “restraining oneself” is pretty much a prerequisite of being a nice guy.
I do agree with that. It’s 50/50 for me though, because I am skeptical as to whether the motive to keep it to themselves is because that’s what they were raised to do or if it’s the work of their team keeping a lid on things during simpler times.Basically I am prepared to cry into my pillow if Tom ends up echoing Martha Stewart’s quote about employees availability.
Except that Chet’s mother is Rita Wilson, not Samantha Lewes. Maybe Rita Wilson is the bad parent, which would explain why Colin is okay and Chet is not
Or maybe the Hanks kids are the best example of Nominative determinism you can find. You name a kid Colin, you get a Colin. Name a kid Chet, you get a Chet.
Yep… and Colin has spoken about how he was raised by his mother more than his father after the divorce, and that his upbringing (which was in Sacramento with his mother, not in LA with his movie-star Dad) was relatively normal.
https://uproxx.com/tv/colin-hanks-growing-up-tom-hanks/
“The financial situation between Colin and Chet was also strikingly different. While Colin admits that he grew up with money, it was nowhere near the amount of money that people would assume. “I don’t know how much money my mother was getting in alimony, but what I heard was, ‘We don’t have the money for that. Your Dad has that. We don’t have that.’ So, it wasn’t like money was no object to Colin. “Money was always the object,” so trips and other materials items remained special to Colin, he tells Shepard.In terms of keeping him grounded, it also helped that Colin didn’t grow up when Tom Hanks was “super rich.”“There is a very definitive line in my father’s career where things just became stratospheric, and very different,” Colin tells Shepard. His father’s earnings increased substantially after “the Forrest Gump era.” Colin was already 17 years old by that time, so he had a “different kind of experience” growing up than his younger siblings.
Colin’s younger siblings also didn’t have to cope with the loss of a parent. Colin’s Mom sadly died when she was 49 years old of lung cancer, only five months after Orange County came out. Her death changed Colin’s perspective on work a great deal — it became a less important priority. As a result, a he tells Shepard, he refused to do “sh*t” movies like Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!. The downside was that he didn’t work for several years (his first major feature after 2002’s Orange County was King Kong in 2005).
Beside a foot in the door and his obvious support, however, maybe the best thing that Tom Hanks offered and continues to offer is “an example of not perhaps of the right way to handle fame, but a right way. To stay on the track a little better than other people.” That’s something that both Tom and Colin have both managed to successfully navigate in their lives.”
“I don’t think Tom Hanks is a complete bad guy but I think the general public has overblown the nice guy thing and mistaken nice for restraining yourself from telling it all.”
What do you think being a nice guy entails?
“It’s just a whiff of why Chet Hanks is how he is with the domestic issues and how women are always the “crazy” ones to him.
Wow, imagine being such a vile piece of scum that you can pass judgement just like *that* one something you know NOTHING ABOUT.
Like it’s a fucking BAD thing to be happy you’re out of a marriage that wasn’t working.
You are unbelievable trash.
mistaken nice for restraining yourself from telling it allThe guy’s allowed to have negative thoughts. Not blabbing about them IS the nice part.
We have a family friend who was an Apollo mission control engineer (actually portrayed by Cliff Howard in Apollo 13) and he spent massive amounts of time with Hanks both for that movie, and the From the Earth to the Moon series that Hanks later did. My in-laws sat with Hanks and Rita Wilson at a dinner event associated with it as well. They all confirmed that he is every bit as nice and generous as his reputation suggests, including doing things like inviting the family friends to dinner when he was in town (Houston) working on the documentary when they would have had no way of knowing he was there. It’s easy to claim a public persona is just that, a put-on, but I have first-hand confirmation that he’s far from a “complete bad guy.”
I met Gene Kranz once.
Or, there’s a very good chance that, in adulthood, he realized that his parents might’ve made better friends (or at least co-parents) than people in an active relationship with one another.
That in no way casts any aspersion onto Samantha or Tom, but I’m rather strongly of the opinion that parents who stay in a bad relationship “for the sake of the children” do more long-term damage to those very same kids than parents who split/divorce when things reach their acrimonious breaking point.
I don’t think anyone is saying that he had to stay in the relationship (I personally am divorced and have two kids), and certainly Colin has more context on this than we do, but with no context this sounds a bit mean to say how happy he was about the whole thing, especially from the person he married just a year later.
“but with no context this sounds a bit mean to say how happy he was about the whole thing”
Hey stupid, why do you think people get divorced?
Clue: IT’S BECAUSE THEY ARE UNHAPPY.
Why would someone who got a divorce and is leaving an unhappy marriage not be happy to be leaving?
Jesus, fucking KILL YOURSELF.
I can certainly understand how it could possibly be a bit tactless, but to preface with not having heard the podcast, it’s probably unlikely that Rita volunteered the information without being prodded via questioning from the host.
Also, the statement appears to be Rita’s perspective of the situation. I’m sure Tom has told her his feelings during the divorce, but if she gleaned that Tom seemed happier once he and Samantha split, her recounting of what she observed isn’t necessarily beyond the pale. Given that Tom and Rita knew each other for nearly a decade before the divorce and their eventual marriage, there’s a good chance they were on friendly enough terms to where Rita could discern when Tom was happy and when he wasn’t.
Granted, this is all without context (not knowing any of the parties and not intending to listen to the podcast), but I can certainly see how her statement (albeit abbreviated) can come across as a subtle dig to a person no longer here to defend themselves.
Hell, I realised as a kid that my parents were better off apart. They got into a lot of arguments, but to my knowledge it never became violent or anything. I was maybe 12 or 13 when they divorced. My life and theirs and my relationship with each of them was better for it.I’ve always found it strange and frustrating how desperate people are (in reality and especially fiction) to have their parents stay together forever, even when it’s clear that it’s doing no-one any good. Am I really that much of an exception?
My parents (never married) split when I was around 2 or 3, and I lostmy father when I was 9. My mother later told me that they came to the realization that they made better friends than they did partners in a relationship.
I didn’t realize how fortunate their realization was until I got older and met enough friends whose parents went through acrimonious splits or were in inertia-driven yet miserable relationships.
So you’re definitely not alone. I think the issue is that people conflate the proven benefits of a child having both parents present with said parents being in a relationship with one another. It’s undoubted that a good two-parent relationship is a net positive for a child, but a bad relationship is certainly more detrimental than separated parents who are both present. The other issue is that kids tend not to vocalize how detrimental a bad relationship between their parents is to them. The lack of vocalization (placing no blame on the kids, just a statement of fact) leads to parents often being oblivious and thinking that the mere facade of a relationship is sufficient enough obfuscation. Kids tend to take it all in, but because they’re not in a position to leave the situation, it festers and unfortunately becomes malignant (unless the kid is a unicorn and has such a strong disposition and precociousness that they can mentally and emotionally process what’s happening in a healthy manner).
He married a woman named Samantha! That’s just weird. I don’t think I could even date a girl with the same name as my mother.
Kirstie Alley married a man with the same first and last name as her father. That’s just bizarre.
I feel slightly better about the fact that I married a woman with the same first name as my sister, and my sister married a man with the same first name as me. Why, yes I am a member of the Lannister family, why do you ask?*seriously, not planned but still freaks me out.
Enh…he’s a grownup now with his own family. Good on them if they restrained all that garbage while the kids were growing up, but if they want to vent now, I think it’s probably ok.
You can g’head ‘n wonder if ya wanna. I’m not gunnuh.
“Kind of wonder what Colin Hanks thinks reading stuff like this as well.”
Yeah, I wonder how he feels, finding out 25 years later that his dad thought getting divorced was a good idea.
What should he think reading this? That people get divorced for good reason and that literally AT LEAST 50% of people who get divorced are happy about it?
Jesus, I hope he’s not as fucking fragile as you are, he’s had THIRTY FIVE YEARS to deal with it.
Yeah…this seems a bit shitty of Rita to say. Especially without context. Maybe it was a case of a mutually agreeable divorce where everyone was thrilled, but coming from the second wife it sounds like “lol he was happy to get rid of that bitch and get with me.” And it’s worse since Lewes is dead now, and her son has to read this. Very bad form. Why did she even feel the need to bring this up?
“Yeah…this seems a bit shitty of Rita to say.”
Why? People get divorces because they’re unhappy. AT LEAST 50% of the people involved in divorces WANT a divorce.
Why is it shitty to remember history as it happened and not pretend it was different?
For the love of all that is good and holy, THE DIVORCE HAPPENED THIRTY FIVE FUCKING YEARS AGO.
Fuck you.
The oddest thing about Colin Hanks’ Instagram is the aggressive Boomer-mom commenting by Rita Wilson. “So proud, honey!” etc.
He married Rita Wilson just barely a year after divorcing Lewes, and it was an extremely acrimonious divorce with Hanks saying outright he was a terrible father at the time because the marriage was so bad. Colin has previously said that Rita Wilson made his father into the person he is and made him a better father so I think he probably recognizes that this is a case of talking about how bad the marriage was, not necessarily that his mom was a bad person.
Colin (and Tom actually) have been pretty forthright about that period in their lives. This was long before Tom was famous. He and Samantha were struggling theatre actors when she got pregnant with Colin and she and Tom then decided to marry at 21. Both were struggling with depression and some substance abuse. It wasn’t a great relationship from the start and it apparently never got better.
Strays? Like lost cats and dogs? What does do when she catches them? Eats them?
You’re a jerk, Hanks. We like Bill Hader now.
Nah, still love Hanks. Besides, even if something in here rubs you the wrong way, this is his wife and Rob Reiner being quoted. Nothing from Hanks.
SPIDERS FOR HADER!!! SPIDERS FOR HADER!!! Wave ALL your arms in the air for Hader!Seriously, yeah, you’re right. I had no idea Hanks was on marriage 2.
Billy’s hairpiece is very convincing
You telling me people don’t go 100% bald to 0% with no transitional real estate??
Man, that reminds me of a guy who we were all sure wore a piece, but he had a series of pieces, like his “I’ve just had a haircut” piece and his “I’m shaggy and need a haircut” piece, and at least one in-between piece. We imagined his bedroom must be like something out of Return To Oz
That’s some serious dedication to something no one was buying anyway.My favorite was being out at a business dinner with a group that included some people I didn’t know that migrated to a bar afterwards. There was a sort of blacklight just inside the front door and one woman was wearing a black knit dress that you could suddenly see her white bra and underpants through. This brought quite a laugh as you might expect, until her boss stepped under it and his hairpiece lit up like a green beacon. Which was FAR funnier than acknowledgement that the woman was wearing undergarments.
Sounds like an episode of I Think You Should Leave With Whats’isname.As for the dedication, this was from my community theater years, so he was a theater guy. But also, he wasn’t the only one I sorta knew who wore a piece where you could see his grey hair peeking underneath the light brown piece. If you were walking behind him in the hall you’d just wonder “who is this for?” “you MUST know you’re fooling no one.” Was the piece not fitted right for his head? Did he just not know how to get it on and check the back?I guess if only the wearer (bearer?) of the piece feels convincing and good about themself, then that’s who it’s for.
Lol. Good story.
I won’t lie, it was fucking priceless.
Wow. I mean, maybe he deserves a C for effort?
Huh, I have a hard time imagining Hanks in the role, as Harry is so neurotic and prickly and quippy and [additional qualifier dancing around just describing the character as “Jewish New Yorker”]. Per wikipedia, it looks like Crystal had a lot of influence over the character in the final script though. To be honest, I think Crystal and Ryan and far better chemistry than Ryan and Hanks in either of their films…but I also consider both Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail to be dull as dishwater in general.
Pretty much agree. Albert Brooks would have been an inspired choice, though.
I think Crystal was more plausible as someone Ryan might fall for than Brooks.
You make a pretty good argument.
I don’t know that the chemistry is better, but Joe Vs. The Volcano is amazing and way better than those two.
Oh yeah, I’d forgotten they were in Joe vs. The Volcano together as well. I need to check it out.
Yes, because Joe vs. The Volcano understood it was a silly premise.Brain Cloud.
My problem is that Meg Ryan just feel miles out of Billy Crystals league.
Eh, in-his-prime Billy Crystal was a pretty good looking dude, and I know from experience that a decent sense of humor helps you punch well above your weight.
This is true. As long as it comes from “I’m intelligent” and not “I fucking hate women and this will bleed through my every set.”
Also, if true, that she is “out of his league,” then that helps the plot. If you assume that one reason it took so long to finally connect was an initial lack of attraction on her part.
Do you know someone who is funny?
(JK!)
For sure. Confidence, personality and depth go a long way, especially after a woman has experienced several attractive but shallow and self-involved guys.
Hollywood loves to do that, though: make sure some guy gets that woman who is out of his league.
Also 13 years older then she is.
That’s not that much older – good lord. Do you have some sort of issue with Billy Crystal?
Yes, Yes I do. He knows what he didAlso 13 years is a pretty big age gap, especially when one of the people is still in their 20s
“Knows what he did?” Ummm what? And 10-13 years is not that far apart: 33 year old male married to 21 year old woman is not a huge gap. That’s actually extremely common. Get over yourself
Harry and Sally are also both supposed to be close to the same age – if not the same age. They meet driving to New York after they graduate from college.
I’m not arguing that. I’m arguing that it’s stupid to call a 10-12 yr difference in age between a couple “extreme” absolutely ridiculous.
I agree that it’s not extreme – though the movie does have a different vibe when if it were a 22 year old recent college grad and a 35 year old driving to New York and the 35 year old guy telling her she’s too uptight about sex and all the other things they talk about. It’s not inherently a problem. It would hit different if Billy Crystal was playing his age. He’s not.
I started dating my wife when I was 34 and she was 21. We’ve been together 18 years now, married for 13. Age differences aren’t as big a deal as people want them to be.
But their characters were roughly the same age.
13 years older than her and trying to play the same age. I actually don’t find it that distracting when watching it, tbh, but it gave me a very skewed understanding of how old Meg Ryan was for a long time because I assumed they were the same age.
Wouldn’t you agree most of his starring roles have been anything but romantic leads?
Nah, they make it work.
Huh. I have never, ever thought that. I totally buy the movie’s conclusion that they are, in the end, perfectly suited for one another. Is this a looks thing?
I used to think that (and about most other films with similar characters, including woody allen and Albert Brooks films), and then I (a short, quippy, neurotic, autistic, thirty-something Jew from the NYC area) ended up with a tall, gorgeous, extremely gentile woman. I have subsequently stopped thinking of those films as unrealistic. (She’s definitely out of my league, but hey, as long as she doesn’t care, we’re good.)That said, I now more firmly relate to films like “Meet the Parents” than I had ever expected.
Someone on another post asked me if I have a problem with Billy Crystal and I honestly think maybe that’s part of it. Something about him I find absolutely grating. I don’t feel that way about Albert Brooks and could buy him and Meg Ryan more.
It might look that way but being funny can be way sexier than a hot physique.
That’s the problem for about 90% of rom coms.
True, but that’s why Crystal was the better pick. It took what, 15 years for them to get together? She and Hanks would have had instance chemistry. Keep in mind this is what Hanks looked like in 1989:
Since you broke the “Jewish New Yorker” seal… I do often see a bit of proto-Seinfeld/Larry David in Billy Crystal’s performance. Moreso the younger Harry, where he’s talking about never taking girlfriends to the airport or reading the end of a book first.
That’s just neurotic east coast jewish-isms.
Did you ever see Punchline? Neurotic, prickly, and quippy are well within Hanks’ skill set.
Oh God, I have literally never understood the Tom Hanks thing until I watched Punchline, at which point I fell solidly in love. I love that movie so much.
I love You’ve Got Mail, not so much because of the love story, but because how it captures a very specific sense of late 1990s culture. The Internet, long the domain of nerds and academics, was finally becoming mainstream, big chain bookstores like Borders and Barnes & Noble were putting small indie stores out of business, and while Amazon existed, it was hardly a factor to consider in the book business yet (although books were pretty much all it sold at that point).
Yeah, I watched it fairly recently and the unintentional dramatic irony was pretty hilarious. “Oh, buddy, Amazon is about to eat your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack within a decade.”
What’s funny is it was his version of Borders that was putting her (and every other small private shop) out of business. And now Amazon Marketplace has thrown a lifeline to those same shops. I like to buy books in hardcover and get them from independent shops all over the country via Amazon.
Funny thing about how Borders was up there with B&N in the bookstore game is that it was only created in 1971, whereas B&N’s been around since 1886.
True, although I think both became national chains with large stores about the same time in the late 1980s. Before then B&N was a mostly New York City chain while Borders was in Ann Arbor, MI. Before then, national book store chains like Waldenbooks and B. Dalton mostly operated out of small mall storefronts no bigger than a shoe store.
I remember when Amazon first went public reading that they’d have to sell every copy of every book sold in America to justify the valuation. Turns out they were using books (small, non-perishable, inexpensive to ship) to perfect the business model of selling…well, pretty much anything. Now I can order anti-allergy dog chews to my front door and they’ll be there in six hours. It’s insane.
Yeah it was weird around the turn of the Millennium when they began to shift from books to anything. I still have a plastic drinks tumbler that they sent me for free in an order around 1997 that says “Amazon: The World’s Biggest Bookstore”.
I’ve never been able to watch Hanks in a movie that presents him as a serious romantic partner. And if you look at his filmography, he’s seldom had to do it, which is pretty darned unusual for an A-lister lead male.And, to be honest; no, I would not. Ever.
I’ve always felt this way too. Hanks, while a great actor in the right roles, is not built to be a romantic lead. I don’t love Forrest Gump as a film, but I found his relationship with Jenny in that one to be far more genuine than any of his romcoms. Really, though, he still does his best work in the forgotten non-romantic roles; give me A League of Their Own or Charlie Wilson’s War any day.
Yeah, I felt the same way about Forrest Gump and Jenny. It was the only one that seemed genuine. I was thinking about that when I wrote my comment, but it was a singular relationship. Not even sure what to think about that chemistry.
I agree with your choices too.
Bachelor Party? I mean he was a smartass school bus driver, but Tawny Kitaen was down.
Gotta admit. I didn’t see that one 😉
Yeah, I presume if it had been Tom Hanks, Harry would have been a very different character.
Dull as dishwater aside, that’s not to say anything of the deeply disturbing behavior of Meg Ryan’s character in Sleepless in Seattle which we all passed off as cute and romantic back in the day. She taps into public records to find out where she works/what her address is. Buys a plane ticket and tracks him down to find him playing with his son and stands there in a busy road staring at him like a weirdo. She does all this while being engaged to another man.I wanna see the outtakes where they show the conversation they have after they finally meet at the end of the movie: “So why were you standing in the road in Seattle a couple months back?” Pauses awkwardly. “Oh you know… just stalking you… you’re attracted to me though so it’s okay, right? RIGHT!!?? SAY IT’S OKAY SAM!!”
When you look at it through just about any lens other than romantic comedies from a bygone era, Ryan’s Sleepless in Seattle character is unhinged if not outright terrifying.
I’ve always thought Sleepless in Seattle is creepy. She breaks up with her fiancee over a dude she’s never met whom she heard in a phone call over a long drive.
I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, SAM!
Wow…everyone’s entitled to their opinions I guess…even if they’re wrong.
Agree. Before I read this article, I had no idea that Nora Ephron wrote the other two; they’re as bland and formulaic as When Harry Met Sally is original and great. Maybe she only had one good one in her.
I liked When Harry Met Sally, but I don’t know that it was that original. It felt very Annie Hall-redux.
Yeah, I actually grew to like When Harry Met Sally more over time. It really felt so indebted to Woody Allen to me when it came out. Now I feel a lot more warmly towards WHMS.
I finally got around to watching Little Shop Around the Corner last Christmas and it is so WILDLY different from You’ve Got Mail that I gotta give props to Ephron for making something both unique and adapted.
I mean, Shop is absolutely the better movie, though that’s in part because You’ve Got Mail is so weak, being the epitome of late 90s adult rom-coms: all sheen, no substance.Meanwhile, whenever I watch When Harry Met Sally, I don’t think of it as an Ephron script. The way it smarms and gets awkward about romance instead of twee and adorable feels more like the influence of Carrie Fisher.
I would argue that while Sleepless in Seattle is a little bland – it really helped to create a formula that many 90s rom coms aped so I can see why it initially felt much fresher.
Yiddish has at least 3 or 4 different words for types of weird little dork, I don’t think you gotta dance around it
I do think there’s something to be said that the Harry we know is likely very influenced by Billy Crystal. He’s definitely ad libbing in places. Hanks probably still would have been prickly – and many of his pre-Sleepless in Seattle characters were varying levels of prickly – but less quippy.
No way could Hanks have managed this role. It calls for the performance of deep insecurity and he’s not capable of that.
Could Tom Hanks take a woman to a place where she actually meows?OK OK, I know, Billy Crystal sounds ridiculous saying that too.But could Tom Hanks even say he took a woman to a place where she actually meows?
“Someday, one of your friends is gonna get divorced, it’s gonna happen, and they’re gonna tell you. Don’t go, ‘ohhhh I’m sorry.’ That’s a stupid thing to say. First of all you’re making ‘em feel bad for being really happy, which isn’t fair. And second of all: divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it’s true, because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. It’s really that simple.”
Never understood the distinction being made… if you say you’re sorry about a divorce you’re saying you’re sorry the marriage wasn’t good. That’s something to be sorry for.
I’m pretty sure when people say ‘sorry’ about divorce, they’re expressing empathy for the emotional turmoil, not suggesting it’s a mistake.
“Sorry about your divorce.”– Sir Thomas More, 1532
“Well, it is so often the way, sir, too late one thinks of what one should have said.”
Wait wait wait…are you saying Louis CK may not have been totally on-the-mark about something relationship-related?!?
Well IMO a divorce can go two ways, the damn that sucks, or the congratulations. At the end of the day it comes down to the WHY of the divorce.
FWIW, my brother got divorced a few years back, and while it was a long time coming, he ended the marriage and had no regrets about it, it was still an incredibly turbulent and emotionally devastating experience for him. After it was all done and he never had to see his ex again, yeah, he was happy as a pig in shit, but while it was happening, there wasn’t a great deal of sunshine and partying going on. “Sorry” was a pretty reasonable thing to say to him.It’s different for everyone, I guess, thank you for listening to my TED talk.
I’ve been divorced for over 30 years, and most years I don’t think of Snuffy at all. Those are good years.
The Allfather is looking weary
Bring him the blood of babies, that he may be rejuvenated!
Casting Albert Brooks would have been worth it just to see what his baseball swing looks like in the batting cages scene.
So…who burned Hanks’ “Dorian Gray” portrait?