HOLLYWOOD STAR "TOM HANKS"

Hi everybody, Monday again! but think of your summer holidays! No matter if you go to the beach, to the mountain or you stay in the city, you have to experiment a "holiday spirit".  If you are in the city, go to the swimming-pool, it is a good suggestion because it's really hot! Enjoy this wonderful season!

Hola a todo el mundo, ¡otra vez lunes! ¡pero pensad en vuestras vacaciones de verano! No importa si os vais a la playa, a la montaña o si os quedáis en la ciudad, tenéis que experimentar un "espíritu de vacaciones".  Si estáis en la ciudad, id a la piscina, es una buena sugerencia porque hace realmente calor.  ¡Disfrutad de esta maravillosa estación!

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CINEMA
Today, we are going to look at a very famous Hollywood star "Tom Hanks".  Everybody knows this American actor but today we will discover other different things from the ones we already know about him.

Tom Hanks began acting at a small theatre in California.  He was still a university student then.  The theatre department at his university did not think that Hanks was talented.  He could not win a role in the school's plays.  So Hanks took matters into his own hands.  Unable to perform with his classmates, he went to a small community theatre downtown and asked for a role in a play.  Remarkably, the theatre's director gave him a chance.  Hanks' talent impressed everyone and the director offered him a chance to travel to Cleveland, Ohio, to perform in a play there.  He never looked back.

Decades later, Hanks has gone on from his uncertain beginnings to become one Hollywood's most important actors and the world's best-known faces.

Hanks was born in 1956.  His parents divorced when he was young.  He moved many times and lived in several houses with different relatives.  After returning from his time in Cleveland, he moved to Los Angeles, California.  In 1980 he received his big break.  A television show "Bosom Buddies, a comedy about two young men who cannot find a place to live and secretly move into a building that only allows women.  Doing the show Hanks discovered he had a great talent for humour.  Soon he began to receive offers to appear in Hollywood movies.

**In 1984 he played the lead in "Splash", a movie about a man in love with a mermaid.
**His next comic role "Big", cast him as a man whose personality magically changes places with that of a young boy.
**In 1994 he received his first Oscar for his performance in the drama "Philadelphia".  The movie was a social breakthrough.  Hanks' Oscar made easier to discuss the deadly AIDS disease publicly in the USA.
**In 1996 he started to work on "Forest Gump", one of his most famous roles and then he found his most famous character :  the mysterious comander of a small group of soliders in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan".

Rather than consider him a comic, movie critics started to call him an "actor's actor".
Today his movies are guaranteed hits and fans adore him wherever he goes.  He has showed a new "everyman" quality that audiences loved.

From a man who could not get a job in a school play, Tom Hanks has become everyone's Oscar star!

VOCABULARY  (from the text)
-ROLE: papel.
-TOOK ... INTO HIS OWN HANDS: tomó cartas en el asunto.
-RELATIVE: pariente.
-BIG BREAK: gran oportunidad.
-MERMAID: sirena.
-MAGICALLY: por arte de magia.
-BREAKTHROUGH: cambio de mentalidad.
-AWARD: premio.
-DESEASE: enfermedad.
-EVERYMAN: tipo corriente.