A different production assistant had a question. “Tom Hanks would like to stop by to say hello. Is that okay?” No, please tell the nicest guy in Hollywood to fuck off, I thought sarcastically. “Yes, that’ll be fine.” Tom Hanks likes journalists, or at least he values independent journalism. In the nineties, he noticed that the coffee machine in the Clinton White House briefing room was an old filter thing. Plastic. Half melted. I picture it molded over after the last pour before a holiday break. Hanks replaced it with a fancy espresso machine. In 2004, he did it again for the journalists
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