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Wednesday 21 November 2012

Acting Classes For Kids

In addition to having a family history of Catholicism and , Hanks was a "Bible-toting teenager" for several years. In school, Hanks was unpopular with students and teachers alike, later telling Rolling Stone magazine: "I was a geek, a spaz. I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy. At the same time, I was the guy who'd yell out funny captions during filmstrips. But I didn't get into trouble. I was always a real good kid and pretty responsible." In 1965, Amos Hanks married Frances Wong, a San Francisco native ofFrances had three children, two of whom lived with Tom during his high school years. Hanks acted in school plays, including , while attending inHanks studied theater at in , , and after two years, transferred to . Hanks told magazine in 1986: "Acting classes looked like the best place for a guy who liked to make a lot of noise and be rather flamboyant ...I spent a lot of time going to plays. I wouldn't take dates with me. I'd just drive to a theater, buy myself a ticket, sit in the seat and read the program, and then get into the play completely. I spent a lot of time like that, seeing and all that."