Tom Hanks delivered the goods in accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s GoldenGlobes
, beginning with a tearful thanks to his family and going on to extol the craft of acting and filmmaking.into a ceremony that had seemed to mostly drag in its first two hours, Hanks confessed he was less than his usually peppy self due to having a cold “the size of Merv Griffin’s Jeopardy royalties.” He said he had been quaffing some “savagely orange drinks for the past 24 hours,” bringing on jitters during the ceremony.
After tearing up in the opening moments of the speech as he paid tribute to wife Rita Wilson and his five kids, Hanks had the crowd at the Beverly Hilton rapt as he described his attachment to the day-to-day business of entertainment.“A movie is made shot by shot,” he said. “At that moment, what is required is that everybody does their job to perfection. They have to hit a mark and they have to. Sometimes, the movie rests on the makeup artist who puts on Stellan Skarsgard’s eyebrows [in].
presented the award to Hanks, who cast her in an early role in , could only utter a one-word reaction to the Hanks speech as he tackled the difficult task of following it. “Amazing,” he said.
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