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Tom Hanks 'working on something' for school's homecoming week based on his films
A California high school's plans for a Tom Hanks-themed homecoming week has received an enthusiastic — and mysterious — response from the actor himself.
"Gear up, Kerman High School for Homecoming!" Hanks announced to more than 10 million Twitter followers Monday night. "I'm working on something for the Festivites! Hanx."
Kerman student-body president Hannah Turner, 17, told TODAY.com she was stunned by the prompt reply, just weeks after the school's social-media campaign launched.
"It really was just amazing," said Turner, who called "Forrest Gump" her favorite movie to feature Hanks. "We never thought that it would happen this fast."
In late August, the student government (known as the Associated Student Body) embraced Kerman teacher David Bakholdin's idea to have Hanks' films be the inspiration for their homecoming week, which culminates in football games, a parade and a dance Oct. 9.
In a video posted Aug. 21 to the school's YouTube page, Bakholdin — the ASB faculty adviser — also made an appeal to the actor to make a cameo in Kerman, California, about 200 miles northeast of Hollywood.
"We would like to officially extend an invitation to Mr. Hanks to come to Kerman to b
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He saved Private Ryan, cracked the Da Vinci Code, brought a crippled spaceship back from the moon, and spent years on a desert island talking to a volleyball. Now, Tom Hanks may be headed to a tiny school’s homecoming.
The high school in Kerman, California, adopted a Tom Hanks theme for this year’s homecoming. Every class is building a float featuring one of Hanks’ movies. The town is small – about 14,000 people – but homecoming is huge and getting the star of “Big” to show up would make it even bigger.
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The kids also launched a viral campaign using the hashtag #TomHanks2KermanHC and mashed up some of Hank’s best lines to encourage him to come.
“There’s no crying in baseball but there will be some crying in Kerman if you don’t show up to homecoming,” said one student, borrowing a line from ‘A League of Their Own.’
“This town isn’t big enough for the two of us–but I’ll leave if you come to Kerman,” another said, using Woody’s line to Buzz Lightyear in ‘Toy Story.’
It worked, and caught the actor’s attention, who replied–surprising everyone on Twitter.
“Oh my gosh, I would be so excited for the kids,” Assistant Principal Margaret Nichols told ABC News. “Just to see their exciteme