She pushed it to a low table that had an HP printer on it, which she picked up and set on top of another nearby HP printer.Returning is the excellent combat and unmatched gothic fantasy aesthetic from the first game. ![]() Tell you what…”Ĭandy came out from behind the counter rolling a wheeled chair. “With those big mitts of yours? That Rocket will bring you to tears. “Do I invest in a Voss? An Adler? This little cutie-the Hermes Rocket?” He went to the shelves and read off the brand names of some of the machines-none made earlier than 1961. “I’ve been saving up for a new old typewriter.” Depending on how much it sets me back.” He waved his long-fingered hand at the wall of typewriters. I’ll wrap it up in fine linen and treat it gently. “You going to just chuck it in the back with your power sander and saber saw?” An inspirational tool.”Ĭandy looked out the window at the parked Ranchero, at the motley collection of tools, tarps, and hardware this guy was driving around with. “No one does, except maybe for addressing envelopes.” Tom Hanks’ The Making of Another Picture Masterpiece Courtesy of Penguin Random House AudioĬomputers and word processors had been getting cheaper by the week. “Any one of them better than the other?” the guy asked. Were they for sale? “For those in need,” Candy Mills told him. The driver, a lanky, skinny guy in worn work clothes, dirty with sawdust and dried putty, came through the door asking about the typewriters in the window and up on the shelves. One day, Amos Mills was out on a call so his daughter was minding the store when a beat-up Ranchero-one of those half-car, half-pickup-truck vehicles, loaded down with all sorts of tools in the back-pulled into the metered slot in front of the shop. In the back room there were vintage writing machines in various states of disrepair, and on the shelves were Royals, Underwoods, Remingtons, Hermes, Olivettis, all in working order. Her father also had a sideline restoring old typewriters. Printers and copiers jammed and froze up all the time, and when they did, Mills Office Equipment was there. Because of the income stream from toner cartridges alone, the shop was never idle nor broke. After the era of one-thousand-key adding machines, then the ten-key desk calculators, Amos Mills sold and serviced copiers and printers all over Orange, the county. Years before, Candace “Candy” Mills had been working for her widowed father at Mills Office Equipment in the city of Orange, California, her hometown. “It’s the death of vaudeville writ large.” She’d learned what was what on Fountain Avenue. Seeing movies at home turned out to be not that bad. Streaming services such as the Hawkeye and its competitors had become the arbiters of what films were financed, which movies were seen, and how the audience viewed them. Over the years that COVID-19 wreaked its wanton havoc, she pondered what Dace would have made of the lockdowns, closures, and cancellations that had stopped traffic on Fountain Avenue, shuttering the cinemas. Oh, Dace! Let’s meet tonight for margaritas at El Cholo!Īl thought of the woman every single day, hoping, wishing, that every incoming call would be Dace needing her. ![]() It was edited, mixed and mastered by Heather Scott and Ted Scott of 50 Nugget Wash Productions.īelow, The Hollywood Reporter shares a first listen of an audiobook excerpt narrated by Hanks and Taylor along with the accompanying text. The audiobook was produced and directed by Karen Dziekonski and edited by Lauren Klein. Patrice Johnson, while Hanks will also narrate.Īdditional parts are played by Frankie Corzo, Hillary Huber, David Lee Huynh, Sean Patrick Hopkins, JD Jackson, January Lavoy and Oliver Wyman. Gerety will portray Kenny Sheprock, Morales as Ynez Gonzalez-Cruz, Nwodim as Al Mac-Teer Pedrad as Wren Lane, Ratliff as Ike Clipper and Taylor as Dace Mills. To help bring his story to life, Hanks enlisted a myraid of stars to lend their voices to the audiobook production of the novel from Penguin Random House Audio including Peter Gerety, Natalie Morales, Ego Nwodim, Nasim Pedrad, Connor Ratliff, Holland Taylor and Rita Wilson (who is also Hanks’ wife). Though the novel is a work of fiction, Hanks found inspiration from his experiences on his extensive resume of films including Splash. Cue the cast: We meet the film’s extremely difficult male star, his wonderful leading lady, the eccentric writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant, and everyone else on both sides of the camera,” the publisher describes of the novel. “Cut to the present day: A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie. Star-Studded Premiere of Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' Lights Up Cannes
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