Our Domicile;334254 said:

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In defense of Tom Hanks -- Judging by Tom's age, I say he was a young man growing up in the East Bay during the post-Oakland Raider days (they moved to Los Angeles in 1982) and Cal Bear Football, whether good or bad in that Era, whether competitive in the PAC-10 or not, was the team to follow for Football Fans not inclined to jump on the 49er bandwagon on the other side of the Bay like, I believe, MC Hammer from Oakland did.

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Hanks was in this documentary:

Our Domicile;334254 said:

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Cal should do a better job of reaching out to "celebrities"... with East Bay ties.

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Or just celebs who actually went to Cal. Just one sideline appearance a year is all we need to generate some buzz. Time to recruit Kirk and Sulu!

TouchedTheAxeIn82;334293 said:

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Or just celebs who actually went to Cal. Just one sideline appearance a year is all we need to generate some buzz. Time to recruit Kirk and Sulu!

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OK, to be fair the guy on the left, whose name I forgot, hasn't really done anything since Star Trek (I went to Cal as the same time as him).

Hopefully, he won't become the next Superman from 2006. That guy's biggest gig since then was on the show Chuck, which few people watch.

The other guy, John Cho, was just canceled on ABC.

We need a Jessica Alba-type celebrity.

Yes - we do.

tell him to donate then

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dupdadee;334208 said:

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Here we go again. We do not know Tom Hanks is a "huge Cal Fan."

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Of course we do. When a multi-Academy Award winning celebrity answers the question posed by bob costas "what would you rather have, an oscar or heisman trophy" with "if it was for playing half back for the california golden bears that would be substantial..." i think it's really safe to infer that person is a cal fan. that they said it unsolicitedly is huge for cal.

okaydo;334307 said:

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OK, to be fair the guy on the left, whose name I forgot, hasn't really done anything since Star Trek (I went to Cal as the same time as him).

Hopefully, he won't become the next Superman from 2006. That guy's biggest gig since then was on the show Chuck, which few people watch.

The other guy, John Cho, was just canceled on ABC.

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Well, given that the Star Trek movie was a financial success, I'd bet these guys will have at least one more big movie under their belts since it's almost certainly going to become a franchise.

And John Cho is already pretty much immortalized by being the "MILF guy" in American Pie and Harold in Harold and Kumar.

sycasey;334335 said:

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Well, given that the Star Trek movie was a financial success, I'd bet these guys will have at least one more big movie under their belts since it's almost certainly going to become a franchise.

And John Cho is already pretty much immortalized by being the "MILF guy" in American Pie and Harold in Harold and Kumar.

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I'm not saying they're failures or anything. They are just not big-time stars.

No doubt Cho is famous for Harold and Kiumar, but he's starred in 3 failed TV projects in the past 5 years (NBC's The Singles Table, Fox's Kitchen Confidential and ABC's FlashForward). Hopefully something will stick. (George Clooney was once considered a "show killer.")

As for Pine, I used to think that Star Wars would make him an A-lister. Not anymore.

okaydo;334351 said:

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I'm not saying they're failures or anything. They are just not big-time stars.

As for Pine, I used to think that Star Wars would make him an A-lister. Not anymore.

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Chris Pine just made a movie with Denzel Washington, and apparently he is signed up for the sequel to (this version of) Star Trek. Give him time.

sycasey;334335 said:

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Well, given that the Star Trek movie was a financial success, I'd bet these guys will have at least one more big movie under their belts since it's almost certainly going to become a franchise.

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"Star Trek has earned high critical praise, gaining a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. It is the thirteenth-highest-grossing film of 2009seventh-highest within North Americaand has become the highest-grossing film in the Star Trek series and is credited by the media as a reboot of the series. It was nominated for four Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards and won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, making it the first Star Trek film to win an Oscar."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(film)#Sequel

"The film's major cast members have signed on for two sequels."

okaydo;334307 said:

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OK, to be fair the guy on the left, whose name I forgot, hasn't really done anything since Star Trek (I went to Cal as the same time as him).

Hopefully, he won't become the next Superman from 2006. That guy's biggest gig since then was on the show Chuck, which few people watch.

The other guy, John Cho, was just canceled on ABC.

We need a Jessica Alba-type celebrity.

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Chris Pine is his name. He is the lead with Denzel Washington in UNSTOPPABLE, a $150mm budget movie directed by Tony Scott ("Top Gun", "True Romance", "Crimson Tide") that Fox is releasing on 3000+ screens in November of this year.

Here's the logline if you're interested:

"Inspired by true events, a veteran engineer (Washington) and a young conductor (Pine) try frantically to stop a half-mile-long freight train carrying enough combustible liquids and poisonous gas to wipe out a nearby city."

As for John Cho, well, they're making another Harold & Kumar movie -- "A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas".

ITT-We learn that the perceived "negative" "positive" divide on this board extends to whether or not you believe Tom Hanks is a real Cal fan, or just some guy who gave us a shoutout one time. Funny.