Tom Hanks - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 06 Dec 2017 20:48:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Tom Hanks - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 How Ben Bradlee Became The Face Of Great Journalism https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/12/07/ben-bradlee-became-face-great-journalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ben-bradlee-became-face-great-journalism Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:00:20 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=255228 Ben Bradlee hasn’t shone this brightly since the 1970s, when he stared down the Nixon administration over the Pentagon Papers and won, led a tireless staff to produce momentous Watergate coverage, and came to represent the epitome of the ballsy newspaper editor in the public imagination. Buried just three years ago at age 93, Bradlee […]

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PHOTOS: Tom Hanks Honored at National Archives With Records of Achievement Award https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/23/photos-tom-hanks-honored-at-national-archives-with-records-of-achievement-award/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photos-tom-hanks-honored-at-national-archives-with-records-of-achievement-award Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:44:02 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=240393 For those who didn’t live through World War II, the Apollo program, or the Cold War, the National Archives holds some of the best–and indisputably true–records of these important historical events. Movies starring Tom Hanks might be a close second. Hanks was honored Saturday evening with the Archives’ Records of Achievement award, for producing a “powerful […]

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Report: Steven Spielberg to Direct Film About Washington Post and Pentagon Papers https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/03/06/report-steven-spielberg-direct-film-washington-post-pentagon-papers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-steven-spielberg-direct-film-washington-post-pentagon-papers Mon, 06 Mar 2017 20:17:06 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=218848 Steven Spielberg will direct The Post, a film about the Washington Post‘s 1971 publication of classified Defense Department documents about the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers and the ensuing legal battle with the federal government over the newspaper’s right to publish them, according to Deadline. The film is expected to star Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, […]

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