Tom Everett Scott
Guy "Skitch" "Shades" Patterson
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Oct 4, 1996 · That Thing You Do!: Directed by Tom Hanks. With Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn. A local Pennsylvania band scores a one-hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from their manager.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Tom Hanks
- 1996-10-04
- The Title Song Was Written by The Bass Player of Fountains of Wayne.
- Mike Viola Was Upset Over The Lack of Credit Given For Singing The Song.
- The Actors Actually Learned How to Play Their Instruments.
- There Were Plenty of Other Potential Band Names.
- Hanks Knew Charlize Theron Was Going to Be Famous After She Auditioned.
- No Actual Music from The 1960s Was Used.
- The Bass Player’S Name Is Never mentioned.
- They Filmed on The Price Is Right Stage.
- Hanks Worked Long Hours on His Directorial Debut.
- The Film Featured A Mini Bosom Buddies Reunion.
At the time, Adam Schlesinger was in the band Ivy and was just starting to form Fountains of Wayne when he entered Hanks and the producers’ contest to write a “faux-Beatles” tune called “That Thing You Do.” Schlesinger’s version was picked out of 300 entries. In the demo that won, singer Mike Viola was hungover.The track was later re-recorded in Ca...
The Candy Butchers singer didn’t appreciate being listed after the long cast and production credits—including one horse—as simply supplying “Additional Vocals.” A producer responded by saying that the film wanted to create a mythology about the band The Wonders, as if they were real, something which would be harder to do if Viola’s credit was liste...
Everett Scott, Steve Zahn (Lenny Haise), Ethan Embry (T.B. Player) and Johnathon Schaech (Jimmy Mattingly) spent a month learning all of the notes to all of The Wonders’s tunes, even though they weren’t actually the ones playing them. It was Schaech’s first time playing guitar, and Everett Scott’s first attempt at playing drums. Schaech burned his ...
Schaech revealed some of the names written in his character’s notebook in a series of YouTube videos:Mom’s Hot Dish (A Zahn creation), The Lords of Erie, Jimmy in This and Jimmy in That, The Hanks, and Faye’s Addiction were some of the more interesting ones.
The future Oscar winner played the role of Tina in That Thing You Do!, which was only her second credited on-screen role. After she finished her audition, Hanks said, "She's got it! That girl is going to be somebody." In her script, Hanks wrote, “No matter what, I will always claim to have discovered you.”
The rights to even obscure B-sides were expensive, so Hanks and some of his collaborators composed new music for the movie. Hanks also remarked that Forrest Gump used actual '60s music to full effect already, and recently.
Ethan Embry was credited as T.B. Player (The Bass Player). Embry once said he believed the "T" stood for Tobias.
The Hollywood Television Showcase scene was shot on Stage 33, Bob Barker Studio, at CBS Television City in Hollywood.
He started at 4 a.m. and usually got home around 11:45 p.m. He was so tired one morning that he didn't even notice his wife, Rita Wilson (who played a cocktail waitress in the film), was on the set. "I was so tired by then I didn't even know it was my wife," Hanks said. "I thought, 'She's a very attractive lady, and I hope she's going to be nice to...
Peter Scolari, who co-starred on the sitcom Bosom Buddies with a pre-fame Hanks from 1980 to 1982, played Troy Chesterfield, the host of The Hollywood Television Showcase.
That Thing You Do! That Thing You Do! is a 1996 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom Hanks, in his feature writing and directorial debut. The film is set in 1960s rock and roll culture. It tells the story of the rise and fall of a fictional one-hit wonder pop band, and stars Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon ...
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Jan 23, 2019 · Tom Everett Scott, who played Guy Patterson in "That Thing You Do," reminisces about his favorite scenes from the movie, and what he learned from Tom Hanks. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...
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Apr 5, 2024 · That Thing You Do's Tom Everett Scott Is Back in a Band — with Jon Bon Jovi's Son. The star of the iconic '90s film plays an '80s hair band star finding his way back to the spotlight in 'Rockbottom'
Thomas Everett Scott (born September 7, 1970) [1] is an American actor. His film work includes a starring role as drummer Guy Patterson in the film That Thing You Do!, the protagonist in An American Werewolf in Paris, and notable roles in Boiler Room, One True Thing, Dead Man on Campus, The Love Letter, Because I Said So, Danger One, La La Land ...
