Tom Hanks movies weren’t always Hollywood events. He worked his way up doing television and wacky ‘80s comedies. In the ‘90s, he won two Oscars in a row for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Those finally earned him the clout to do the projects he truly wanted to do. Hanks spoke with the New York Times in an interview published June 15. After discussing his role as Col. Tom Parker in Elvis, Hanks discussed his career.
A popular coffee and tea bar and a favorite local bakery will join forces to create Artisan, “an elevated fast-casual restaurant and café” slated to open Saturday, July 24 in Fountain Valley. Fans know that 7 Leaves has 25 locations in three states and that Crema Bakery distributes its goods to some of the best restaurants in Orange County and serves them in Seal Beach at its Crema Cafe. Artisan will have a fresh menu that plays to both restaurants’ strengths.
For the last seven years, no matter where in the world she found herself, Maria Romanenko always came home to Kyiv for Ukraine’s Independence Day on Aug. 24. Last year, which marked three decades since the nation broke away from the Soviet Union, Romanenko and her friends managed to secure a prime spot by the city’s Independence Square to watch a grand military parade including a flypast by the Antonov AN-225—the world’s largest aircraft—whose cult status earned the Ukrainian nickname Mriya, meaning “dream.
Len Kiese celebrated the last day of his job at KPIX on Thursday. His co-hosts and colleagues gave him an emotional farewell while paying tribute to him. In addition, they telecasted clips from his days at KPIX and the memories he made with the people in the network. Tears rolled down his eyes when the channel paid him tribute. He was emotional to bidding goodbye to everyone and expressed how happy he had been to work there and find a family there.
A mixed-race couple who were college sweethearts and dated each other secretly in the 1970s have recently reunited and discovered they are ‘still in love’. Jeannie Gustavson and Steve Watts met as students at Loyola University in Chicago when she was a freshman, aged 18, and he was a senior, aged 21, and they soon started dating. However, he was black and she was white and her family disapproved of interracial dating, meaning they had to conduct their relationship in secret for seven years.