The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece - An Evening With Tom Hanks and Peter Sagal

Join WBEZ and the University Club of Chicago on May 10 at the historic Auditorium Theatre as we celebrate the debut novel by legendary award-winning actor and best-selling author Tom Hanks.

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece explores the making of a star-studded multimillion-dollar superhero action film … and the humble comic books that inspired it. It’s funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II. Tom Hanks will be joined by Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me, for a conversation that you won’t want to miss.

Tickets to this event include a signed copy of The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. This program is presented in partnership with The Book Stall.

Bios

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks has won Academy Awards for best actor for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. He has starred in, among many other films, Big, Sleepless in Seattle, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, Captain Phillips, Bridge of Spies, Sully, Toy Story, The Post, and It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He is also the author of a best-selling collection of stories, Uncommon Type.

Peter Sagal

Peter Sagal is the host of the Peabody Award-winning NPR news quiz Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, now in its 26th year, and is the author of The Incomplete Book of Running and The Book of Vice: Naughty Things and How To Do Them. He is a playwright, screenwriter, an amateur athlete, and host of several podcasts and documentaries, including The Chernobyl Podcast from HBO and Constitution USA with Peter Sagal on PBS. Sagal lives in the Chicago area with his wife Mara, sons Elliott and Theodore, and Dutchie the Dog, who likes to see her name in print.

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