Thanks to K8rMcGees for this :)<\/p>\n
Found this in the January 29, 2002 issue of Globe…a cute picture of father and son, too!<\/p>\n
\nHanks But No Hanks: son hits big time – with no help from dad<\/p>\n
Tom Hanks’ actor son Colin is making a splash in Hollywood with his new movie Orange County – but he’s done it all on his own.<\/p>\n
“I’m totally self-sufficient and have been for years,” declares the lanky 24-year-old, who reveals that the last time his mega-rich father threw cash his way was when he was in college.<\/p>\n
“And even then it was a minimum. The car I drive is mine,” he says, admitting that “when I turned 16, I got Dad’s old minivan. The house I live in, I pay for. Well, it’s a bungalow, that’s more like it!”<\/p>\n
Colin, who grew up in Sacramento, Calif., with his mom Samantha Lewes, Hanks’ first wife, launched his show-biz career as a production assistant on his old man’s 1995 blockbuster flick Apollo 13.<\/p>\n
A year later, he had a no-name walk-on part in Hanks’ flick That Thing You Do. Since then, he’s had to knock Tinseltown’s socks off with no help from papa.<\/p>\n
Besides having to fight for roles with scores of struggling actors, Colin – who appeared on the cult series Roswell for two years before landing the lead in Orange County – reveals that having a superstar dad hasn’t helped his love life, either.<\/p>\n
“My first time was after I left high school – I was 19,” he confides, noting that his romance with Dawson’s Creek actress Busy Phillips recently bit the dust, and he’s solo again.<\/p>\n
But the rising star admits there’s one perk he’s never had to go without, thanks to his world-renowned pop – cutting in line!<\/p>\n
Last summer, during a cheapie European vacation, backpacking and staying at hostels, he met up with his 45-year-old father and Hanks’ second wife, actress Rita Wilson, in Italy just in time for a VIP tour of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.<\/p>\n
“Instead of waiting in line,” he confesses, “I went with them!”
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