Mullet No More

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I find the idea of on Howard's Angels and Demons goosing tourism in Rome, as this Elisabetta Povoledo piece in the N.Y. Times suggests, incredibly banal. But that's the American public for you. A more important thing to note is that Tom Hanks' Demon hair style has been trimmed back significantly from his DaVinci Code mullet of two years ago.

Tom Hanks on set of Angels and Demons (l.); in The DaVinci Code (r.)

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 24, 2008 at 2:49 PM

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BurmaShave says ...

Yeah, and now Tom Hanks is GORGEOUS.

Posted by BurmaShave at June 24, 2008 3:30 PM

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Edward says ...

Lot's my grey in his hair in the left hand still and this is a prequel. I have no desire to see it, but if it pisses off the Church it can't be all bad.

Posted by Edward at June 24, 2008 3:31 PM

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Edward says ...

Gray in his hair too.

Posted by Edward at June 24, 2008 3:35 PM

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Cinexcellence says ...

Thanks goodness.

Posted by Cinexcellence at June 24, 2008 3:44 PM

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Monument says ...

That reminds me of the bit with the Da Vinci Code tourists in 2 Days in Paris.

Posted by Monument at June 24, 2008 3:52 PM

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Chris Baumgardt says ...

Monument,

I love that scene in 2 Days in Paris. I don't think I could be that big of an a-hole in real life, but if I saw someone else doing it I would cheer them on.

Posted by Chris Baumgardt at June 24, 2008 3:57 PM

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LexG says ...

Are we entirely convinced the hair is 100% legit even in the newer pic?

Hairline looks... interesting

Posted by LexG at June 24, 2008 4:01 PM

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D.Z. says ...

It's not the mullet that hurt the movie. It's the movie that hurt the movie.

Posted by D.Z. at June 24, 2008 4:01 PM

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Breedlove says ...

Hanks is overdue for a good movie.

Posted by Breedlove at June 24, 2008 5:39 PM

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Josh Massey says ...

... and a sequel to his worst one ever likely won't do the trick.

Posted by Josh Massey at June 24, 2008 5:59 PM

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D.Z. says ...

Josh: Technically, it's a prequel.

Posted by D.Z. at June 24, 2008 6:34 PM

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Edward says ...

Charlie Wilson's War was a very good film.

Posted by Edward at June 24, 2008 7:22 PM

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supertaster says ...

that never qualified as a mullet ... it was long all over, not just in the back. This shaggy look is making a comback...

For a counter-culture guy who prides himself on being hip (what with the skinny leg tux pants and all), I would think you would know this.

Posted by supertaster at June 24, 2008 7:25 PM

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Redmond says ...

Da Vinci Code's only appeal was that it was the Jesus had a Wife/Gnostic Gospels for Dummies. But wrapped in a lame murder mystery.

Angels & Demons doesn't even have that going for it. It's absolute garbage that, if Da Vinci didn't somehow hit a nerve all those years back, would be selling for a quarter in bargain bins across the country. Where it belongs.

Posted by Redmond at June 24, 2008 7:28 PM

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EOTW says ...

CWW was MUCH better than I thought it was gonig to be. But, too be fair, doesn't it feel like PSH was cut and pasted fro ma more serious version of the story? He is so great and just seems so raw and out of place with the other cast members. maybe it's just me.

Posted by EOTW at June 24, 2008 7:33 PM

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nemo says ...

That ain't a mullet. A mullet is supposed to hang like mud flap in the back, but look all business like a crew cut in the front and on the sides. See Brian Bosworth in that silly biker thing he did with Lance Henrikson and William Forsythe.

Hanks is sporting a European intellectual artsy-fartsy all-over long-hair thing. It ain't even close to a down-home redneck mullet.

Posted by nemo at June 24, 2008 9:29 PM

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nola says ...

exactly nemo but Hanks couldn't rock that look.

I already see Angels and Demons tourists here and it's annoying. It's one thing for a book to inspire you to seek something out but to rush from site to site as if you have a check list is the miss the point of coming to a city like Rome in the first place.

Also the book was horrible but better than the Da Vinci Code.

Posted by nola at June 25, 2008 12:49 AM

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le corbeau says ...

This week's That Mitchell and Webb Look has a very funny Da Vinci Code parody based around their recurring game show Numberwang. "There are numbers... everywhere!"

Posted by le corbeau at June 25, 2008 9:20 AM

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Arizona Joe says ...

If not a mullet, it was a bad haircut.

I never understood the pull of the Da Vinci Code. Banal, yes. Hokey, yes. An insignificant sacrilege, yes.

Tom Hanks must have gotten big points on the gross to be associated with these films. In decades to come, these works will be known as a laughingstock.

Posted by Arizona Joe at June 25, 2008 1:30 PM

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Edward says ...

If reading the DaVinci code leads one to question the nature of Christianity, it's a good thing. I read Holy Blood Holy Grail years ago, so a lot of DaVinci wasn't that big a surprise, but to the unwashed, low thread count masses, must of blown some minds. Not that I believe everything I read, but the Mary Magdalene connection is interesting and it makes me wonder what the real truth is.

Posted by Edward at June 25, 2008 2:05 PM

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Nate Ford says ...

take it easy edward. no one here wants to join your cult.

Posted by Nate Ford at June 25, 2008 3:59 PM

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Edward says ...

My kool-aide is only laced with booze. And LSD is optional.

Posted by Edward at June 25, 2008 10:20 PM

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moorish says ...

Setting aside its obvious hideousness, was it even technically a mullet?

I thought mullets had to be short on top, long at that back. Hanks' hair was just long and swept back. Don't think that technically qualifies as a mullet. Just a fugly set of hair extensions.

Posted by moorish at June 26, 2008 3:58 AM

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