on 24-04-2020 12:56 PM
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tom Hanks has sent a letter and a Corona brand typewriter to an Australian boy who wrote to him about being bullied over his name, Corona, Australian television networks reported on Thursday.
Corona De Vries, an eight-year-old from the Gold Coast in Queensland state wrote to the Hollywood star after he and his wife, Rita, had spent more than two weeks in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 in the Australian beach resort.
The boy had written to Hanks saying: "I heard on the news you and your wife had caught the coronavirus," Channel 7 News reported. "Are you ok?"
He said he loved his name but people at school called him the coronavirus, which made him "sad and angry".
"Your letter made my wife and I feel so wonderful!" Hanks replied in a letter typed on a Corona typewriter which he had taken to the Gold Coast.
"You know, you are the only person I've ever known to have the name Corona -- like the ring around the sun, a crown," the double Oscar winner wrote to the boy.
"I thought this typewriter would suit you," an image of the letter aired by Channel 7 News showed. "Ask a grown up how it works. And use it to write me back."
Hanks handwrote at the end: "P.S. You got a friend in ME!"
He's all heart isn't he, Tom Hanks?
Fancy sending a kid an obsolete piece of machinery. Why didn't he send him a laptop or something?
on 24-04-2020 04:31 PM
What a lovely gesture by Hanks.
Good to read some positive stories out of all the negative ones.
24-04-2020 04:38 PM - edited 24-04-2020 04:41 PM
@snow*jewel wrote:What a lovely gesture by Hanks.
Good to read some positive stories out of all the negative ones.
It's a feel good story, isn't it?
Not sure why it's being played down
on 24-04-2020 04:40 PM
I understand - but some kids are - just different.
Mine is into Art Deco - & - different.
She still has the gift given when she was 12 - on her desk.
She looked very cute speaking on the phone.
I haven't checked to see if it can be used today - our home phone is at the moment connected to the NBN.
Momentarily - as Telstra sent a - Nighthawk package - WiFi internet - 4g - yet to be tested.
This I think - has nothing to do with NBN - oh goody.
on 24-04-2020 06:13 PM
Icy wrote: He's all heart isn't he, Tom Hanks?
Fancy sending a kid an obsolete piece of machinery. Why didn't he send him a laptop or something?
I think the words that have eluded you are symbolic gesture.
on 24-04-2020 07:20 PM
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:Icy wrote: He's all heart isn't he, Tom Hanks?
Fancy sending a kid an obsolete piece of machinery. Why didn't he send him a laptop or something?
I think the words that have eluded you are symbolic gesture.
She-el. Those words did not "elude" me, as I was not searching for them.
on 24-04-2020 10:58 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:Icy wrote: He's all heart isn't he, Tom Hanks?
Fancy sending a kid an obsolete piece of machinery. Why didn't he send him a laptop or something?
I think the words that have eluded you are symbolic gesture.
She-el. Those words did not "elude" me, as I was not searching for them.
Obviously not.
25-04-2020 07:06 AM - edited 25-04-2020 07:06 AM
"Mexico have stopped brewing Corona beer"
According to a female from Florida...
That's why you'all getting sick...you'all are drinkin that there Corona beer from glass bottles
Here we drink good ole Merican beer from aloooomin cans so we aint gonna git that there virus.
Sorry for the OT post...I think it was a great gesture from Tom Hanks.