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28 October 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

By: John Gholson

How is it that someone as fascinated with space exploration as Tom Hanks has managed to go his entire career without appearing in a single science fiction film? Hanks has been an outspoken advocate for the space program since starring in Apollo 13 way back in 1995. He produced the award-winning HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, wrote Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, and sits on the Board of Governors for the National Space Society. Hanks was recognized for this passion by the Space Foundation who awarded him the Douglas S. Murrow Outreach Award in 2006. Is he more interested in the science than the science fiction?

I don't think the two can be totally separated, at least not when it comes to space exploration. Someone needs to imagine the unknown first, they need to theorize and speculate about it before they can creating a »

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2 September 2009 10:33 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

Buscemi to star in Boardwalk Empire

Rome.  Deadwood. Band of Brothers. From the Earth to the Moon.  These are only a few of the fantastic period pieces that HBO has produced in the past and if one things clear, the cable network excels at this type of programming.  They can now, potentially, add another series to the above list.  HBO just announced that Boardwalk Empire, from Martin Scorsese and starring Steve Buscemi has been picked up as a new series.

The new series takes place in 1920's Atlantic City in the heat of Prohibition and chronicles the rise of the city's boardwalk from a quiet seaside resort to the casino empire it has become today.  Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is a cross between a local politician and a bootlegging gangster, and we get to watch how he runs the city through the political and criminal angles.  We'll also get to »

- Bryan Jones

2 articles from 2009