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Article: Despite similarities, Hanks falling short of Jimmy Stewart.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2006
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Byline: Michael Sragow
Jun. 2--Tom Hanks' latest movie, The Da Vinci Code, opened May 19, a day before Jimmy Stewart's birthday. (Stewart was born in Indiana, Pa., on May 20, 1908.) Entertainment writers have often called Hanks today's Jimmy Stewart. That comparison has never looked shakier than it does right now. Stewart's most famous suspense films were obsessive and erotic fables for Alfred Hitchcock, leagues away from Ron Howard's stodgy, cautious The Da Vinci Code. Indeed, throughout his career, Stewart drew inspiration from a score of strong, diverse directors, from Ernst Lubitsch to Otto Preminger. Hanks has repeatedly fallen back on a handful of ...