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‘Big’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Van Lathan

The Rewatchables

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Tom Hanks - Apex Mountain

The shimmy shimmy cocoa bop was Tom X's idea because his son had learned it at summer camp. The Yankee game they went to July, 1987. Tim Stoddard pitched it on Hell Salazar with Bo Jackson leading off first base. So then what you have is this is the apex of the ascension of Tom Hanks. 90s Tom Hanks starts with League of their own and goes all the way through cast away. And then we have 21st century Tom Hanks: It's not a mountain. It's a mountain range.

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