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The Morning Stake | 2019.11.15

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I’ll Be At The Game. Good morning. I didn’t think I’d get this done, the “this” being The Morning Stake. It is hastily put together, but I wanted to highlight the soccer match this evening, the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the ladies and Tom Stone, and the Lady Raiders’ first win of the year last night over Sam Houston State.

This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad. Via the New York Times:

Here is a list of stories about Tom Hanks I’ve heard over the last few miserable months, as it appeared that politeness and civility and manners were facing an extinction event in this country.

Once, in 2008, when he was shooting “Angels & Demons” in Rome by the Pantheon, a bride and her father couldn’t approach the chapel because of the hullabaloo, so Hanks stopped filming to escort them to the altar.

Once, in 2015, he stopped by a table of Girl Scout cookies and bought some boxes, donated an additional $20, then offered selfies to passers-by as an enticement to buy. That same year, he found a young woman’s student ID in a park and used his charming Twitter feed, which is filled with found items, to get it back to her.

Once, in 1997, before shooting “Saving Private Ryan,” Steven Spielberg sent Hanks and other cast members out to do military training in the woods with a former Marine. After spending time in the rain, they all voted to quit the training, except for Hanks, who chose to obediently perform the job he was hired for and spurred the other men to stick with it as well.

These are the regular-nice acts of a person who holds the mantle of Everyman in our movie star culture. But lately they have signified more than simple good deeds. They’re something like the embodiment of a gold standard of menschiness, which is not just gone from the culture at large, but now plays like a parody of it.

There’s more. Spielberg once said about him, “If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would paint a portrait of Tom.”

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1-0. There was no tweet with the official site recap of the game but I’m linking it here. Texas Tech defeated Sam Houston State 99-57, a close first half, but the Lady Raiders poured it on in the second half.

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