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28 April 2009 6:40 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Julia Roberts paid a bizarre X-rated tribute to acting pal Tom Hanks at a New York gala in his honour on Monday night.

Hanks was the guest of honour at the Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute, attended by a star-studded audience of friends and former colleagues.

After entertainment, including a performance by Bruce Springsteen and his wife Patti Scialfa, Roberts, who appeared alongside Hanks in 2007 movie Charlie Wilson's War, stepped onstage to toast her pal with a hilarious, foul-mouthed rant.

After starting with the line, "Ok, it's late and I'm paying my babysitter overtime and I have to pee," the Pretty Woman star noted, "Everybody f**king likes you", and then complimented Hanks' wife Rita Wilson's breasts, figure and perfect butt before giving a critique of some of the star's less acclaimed movies.

She joked, "Tom Hanks, what the f**k? Bosom buddies, people... (I'm a) big fan, big fan. I saw Turner and Hooch, The Money Pit... You in the airport with the accent (The Terminal) - it was a pass for me."

She then added, "I'm wearing the same f**king dress, tonight, as your publicist!"

But Roberts ended on a sincere note, telling Hanks and the audience, "I love you. You do something that two other people on the planet do... Tom can walk into any room and make you feel like you're in your living room, make you feel comfortable... make you feel like there's a reason you're on the planet. That's a true gift. That's not acting... it's heart and compassion." »

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28 April 2009 6:12 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

This is hardly movie news, but it involves one major movie star applauding another major movie star and in quite the unconventional and foul-mouthed way as PopEater has debuted video of the much talked about speech at last night's Film Society of Lincoln Center 36th Gala Tribute to Tom Hanks at Alice Tully Hall. I have attached the transcript directly below the video so you can read along if you miss a line or two... and if you are at work, Beware, it is filled with profanity. "All right, it's late and I'm paying my babysitter overtime and I have to pee, so ... everybody f**king likes you. All my bits are gone. Listen, I had lunch today with Rita [Wilson], and her tits were here and her waist was here and her ass was all that [she was referring to something said in an earlier speech]. So, what can I tell you that's new? Tom Hanks -- what the f**k? »

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21 January 2009 4:04 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

Before his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, before his Oscars and before That awful hair in The Da Vinci Code, Tom Hanks was Hollywood’s go-to-guy when it came to playing lovable goofballs. It was a charming schtick that he worked to perfection in 80s comedies such as The ‘Burbs, Dragnet and The Money Pit, and never to better effect than in 1988’s Big. The classic tale of a 13-year-old boy that wishes to be big only to wake the next morning as a fully grown 35-year-old is total wish fulfillment stuff. As an overgrown kid Hanks gets to breeze about and most enviously of all gets to play a giant foot-operated piano at famed New York toy store Fao Schwarz. And now we’ll all get to have a look (if not a go) on the colossal musical instrument as it has been donated to a children’s museum in Philadelphia, »

3 articles from 2009