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RANDY GLASS ILLUSTRATION: HEDCUTS OF HANKS

September 13, 2016

Randy Glass looked back through his archives to find four separate occasions that he employed his signature “hedcut” style to illustrate portraits of actor Tom Hanks for the Wall Street Journal.  Hanks wore a prosthetic nose and teeth for Joel and Ethan Coen’s “The Ladykillers” (2004), and was animated as the Conductor in Robert Zemeckis’s “The Polar Express” (2004)…

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…In Steven Spielberg’s “The Terminal” (2004), Hanks played a gentleman named Viktor Navorski. He looked completely natural but spoke with an Eastern European accent (can you tell by the drawing?). Finally, in Ron Howard’s “The Da Vinci Code” (2006), Tom played Dr. Robert Langdon with uncustomary long hair.

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