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QUOTED: Tom Hanks on the limits of celebrity power

By Andrew D’Cruz

| September 10, 2012

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“If I truly had power, I’d be water-skiing right now.”

—Tom Hanks, decidedly not water-skiing at yesterday’s TIFF press conference for Cloud Atlas.

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