RITA WILSON
Also, Rita Wilson and her husband, Tom, were named one of the greatest couples around by People magazine! The following is an excerpt from that article...
Gripping his second Best Actor Oscar, Tom Hanks fixed his tear-filled blue eyes upon his wife, actress Rita Wilson, and began an acceptance speech as pure and simple as anything Forrest Gump might have said. "I'm standing here," he told the 81 million people watching the Academy Awards last March, "because the woman I share my life with has taught me and demonstrates to me every day just what love is."
Only his closest friends knew how badly Hanks, whose early roles pegged him as a happy-go-lucky guy, needed that lesson. Raised in a succession of stepfamilies by a father who frequently uprooted his clan, Hanks, now 39, carried a deep loneliness. Rita Wilson, also 39, grew up in a nurturing nuclear household that kept her grounded. When the two met in 1984 on the set of the Peace Corps comedy Volunteers, Hanks was drawn by her warm, stable personality. "Rita glowed with niceness," says their co-star Xander Berkeley. "You could tell they were found of each other." At the time, Hanks was married (though unhappily) to college sweetheart Samantha Lewes. Rita was engaged but, as she described it, not in love. "I didn't know what being in love was until I met Tom," she told Vanity Fair. Hanks and Lewes divorced in 1987, and love bloomed quickly with Wilson. "It was a complete and utter kind of acceptance of me on her part," Hanks has said. "It was a love that was unconditional." He returned the sentiment. Recalling their courtship on Good Morning America in 1994, Wilson said, "He told me, 'You know, you never have to change anything about who you are or what you do to be with me'."
After seven years of marriage, things have changed, for the better. Wilson's career has begun to take off, and baby Truman joined 5-year-old Chester in December. While the couple celebrate their good fortune with Tom's older children, Colin, 17, and Elizabeth, 13, on Caribbean cruises and European sightseeing trips, they prefer to hang out at their West L.A. home, where they clearly intend to live happily ever after. "They are madly in love," says Apollo 13 producer Brain Grazer. "They are king and queen of the ball."
-People Magazine
JUST A FEW REMINDERS:
This site is only a fan page and is not official. The only way this site will become official, is if Ms. Wilson herself, checks it out and o.k.'s it. I hope that Rita will get a chance to see this page someday! But until then, any e-mail that is sent to me will not be forwarded to Rita, nor do I know her e-mail address, nor do I know if she uses e-mail, nor would I post it on this page, even if I did know it! (Did you get all of that?!?)
This page is still under some pretty heavy construction, so please don't expect a whole lot from it...yet! Later, I will have many more pictures and lots of info on Ms. Wilson. I might even start an online fan club! If you are interested, please e-mail me at adoorable@hotmail.com. Thanks!
If you have a scanner and some spare time, PLEASE scan some pictures of Rita for me! It would be so greatly appriciated!!
Links to other sites on the Web
Fan Page for Rita's hubby, Tom Hanks
Movie Page of Now and Then
Yahoo! Great search site
Geocities!
Rita Wilson has starred/co-starred/appeared in the following flicks:
1996 - Jingle All the Way - played Liz Langston
1996 - That Thing You Do! - played Marguerite
1995 - Now and Then - played adult Chrissy
1994 - Mixed Nuts - played Catherine O'Shaughnessy
1993 - Sleepless in Seattle - played Suzy
1993 - Barbarians at the Gate (TV) - played Carolyn Roehm
1990 - The Bonfire of the Vanities - played a Public Relations Woman
1985 - Volunteers - played Beth Wexler
1978 - Flying High (TV) - played ?
1979 or 1977 - The Day it Came to Earth - played Debbie