A few years ago, at his home in Easton, Pennsylvania, Professor Donald L Miller was joined for a long weekend of intensive research work on the TV adaption of his book Masters of the Air by the show’s executive producer Tom Hanks. After a couple of days, he told his hard-driving Hollywood taskmaster – who had brought with him 440 pages of notes – that he needed to take a break. “I said, ‘Tom, I got to teach,’” Miller recalls. “I live close to my college, Lafayette College. He said, ‘I can teach.’ I said, ‘I bet you can, come on along.’”
A self-proclaimed “lay historian”, Hanks, , and. The anecdote Miller shares is revealing as to the kind of career Hanks might otherwise fancy pursuing were he not already one of the most famous actors and filmmakers.
