Tag: Tom Hanks

Actor Tom Hanks warns of ad with AI imposter

Actor Tom Hanks and CBS talk show co-host Gayle King on Monday were warning fans about ads featuring imposters generated by artificial intelligence. “Beware,” Hanks said in an Instagram post that evidently showed a copy of an unauthorized digital version of him. “There is a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it.” The message had received more than 111,700 “likes” since the […]

Tom Hanks released from hospital after virus quarantine

GOLD COAST, United States (AFP) — Tom Hanks has been released from the Australian hospital where he was in isolation since testing positive for the coronavirus last week, but his wife Rita Wilson remains hospitalized, health officials said Tuesday. The multiple Oscar-winning actors were on the Gold Coast near Brisbane to film an Elvis Presley biopic directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann when he and Wilson, both 63, came down with the disease. Wilson, a singer-songwriter, […]

Rich and famous celebrities who tested positive for COVID-19

  From Hollywood to the world of sports and politics, known celebrities from among the rich and the famous have been infected by the coronavirus. Here is a list of personalities — actors, sportsmen, politicians and government officials — from various countries who have come out to say that they had tested positive for COVID-19. The list is compiled by Agence France Presse. – Entertainers – Tom Hanks and his wife, actress and singer Rita […]

Tom Hanks announces positive test for coronavirus

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) –Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have both tested positive for coronavirus, the US actor said Wednesday. Hanks, 63, said he and Wilson came down with a fever while in Australia, where he is reportedly filming a new movie about the life of Elvis Presley. “To play things right, as is needed in the world right now, we were tested for the coronavirus, and were found to be positive,” […]

Out on a limb: Vanity Fair’s curious cover

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The latest cover of prestigious US magazine Vanity Fair features an annual photograph of Hollywood’s elite — with a twist. Reese Witherspoon, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, Robert de Niro, Nicole Kidman and other stars are grouped for the magazine’s “Hollywood Issue” in a photo lavishly retouched — but forgetting, it seems, to erase an extra leg. “Well…I guess everybody knows now…I have 3 legs,” Witherspoon joked on Twitter. “I […]

Oprah closing Harpo Studios

After 26 years Oprah Winfrey will be shutting down Harpo Studios in Chicago, the long-time home of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Winfrey broke the news on Tuesday (March 03) to her staff that they’ll be moving all operations to Oprah’s cable network OWN’s headquarters in Los Angeles. The new office offers ample sound stages and post production space that will be aimed at growing original programming at OWN. The move is expected to be completed […]

“Captain Phillips” And “Her” Are Big Winners At Writers Guild Awards

The writers of “Her” and “Captain Phillips” were given top honors by their peers on Saturday (February 1) at the annual Writers Guild Awards, a strong predictor of success in the screenplay categories at the Oscars in a month’s time. Spike Jonze won the best original screenplay award for “Her,” a tale set in the near future about a man in a romantic relationship with a lifelike computer operating system. “It’s a high honor coming from writers,” Jonze, 44, […]