Tom Hanks not such a nice guy after all?

[buttmunch]

September 12, 2006 -- TOM Hanks is seen as one of Hollywood's nice guys - but the Oscar winner's first wife, the mother of his kids, strongly disagreed with that perception.
In newly unearthed court papers published in the upcoming bio "The Tom Hanks Enigma," by David Gardner, actress Susan Dillingham charges that Hanks harassed her and attempted to kill her career.

"My husband has repeatedly verbally abused and humiliated me during the past 90 days in my home. This caused me to suffer great emotional distress," Dillingham wrote an L.A. court in asking for a restraining order against Hanks.

Dillingham, whose stage name was Samantha Lewes, died from bone cancer in 2002. During their messy divorce, which began in 1985 and dragged on for three years, the actress said Hanks tried to force her into depositions as she took the lead roles in a series of plays. "[It's] designed to harass and upset me at a time when I should be focusing all of my energies on my job," she wrote in one legal missive.

Hanks shot back in his own legal filing, alleging that Dillingham was delaying a divorce trial "merely to harass me and try to squeeze an unfair settlement out of me."

The couple - college sweethearts who wed after their son, Colin, was born in 1977 - began to have problems when Hanks' career took off in hits like "Splash" and Dillingham's stalled. They also had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1982.

"Tom was spending less and less time at home . . . [and] with two children to care for and a husband who was away for long stretches . . . it was difficult [for her] to get work," Gardner writes. A year after the divorce, Hanks wed actress Rita Wilson.

Gardner also reveals that Hanks' kid brother, Jim, played a Forrest Gump-type character in a little-known soft-core sex flick two years before Tom created the role that won him an Oscar. In "Buford's Beach Bunnies," Jim invented the "now-famous jerky run associated with Forrest Gump" and, like Gump, showed a shy politeness toward women by calling them "ma'am," the author says.

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

I love the last bit about the brother...and somehow I've never quite bought the super nice guy image. Not that he's probably a bastard but no one is that nice.

[ourmaninBusan]

The man made $70 million from Forrest Gump alone.
Just pay her some money and tell her to go away.

UPDATE:
D'oh! Didn't see this part:

Dillingham, whose stage name was Samantha Lewes, died from bone cancer in 2002.

Sorry

[buttmunch]

Well, it's not so easy when she's dead.

[sweetrebel]

That's the thing I hate about 'images' in Hollyweird...you get labeled a nice guy and you step out of line one time or have a bad day, and you are pointed out as being an ass. You have the image of being a 'good girl' and you get rowdy a couple of times and suddenly you are a whore or on drugs...

[buttmunch]

Actually, I agree sweetrebel. He is, after all, just human and maybe the breakup was less than amicable. And when it's less than amicable, people's nasty sides come out. I'm not a big fan but I figure he has his moods and weaknesses like anyone else.

[LynnieD]

Dude's not perfect, no one is. I totally believe it. I still think he's a fine actor though.

[OCD]

Ew a Forest Gump porno. Ick ick ick...

[Laurent]

"Tom was spending less and less time at home . . . [and] with two children to care for and a husband who was away for long stretches . . . it was difficult [for her] to get work," Gardner writes. A year after the divorce, Hanks wed actress Rita Wilson.

Interesting way to word this considering Tom started cheating on his wife with Rita Wilson and that is the major reason his marriage hit the skids.

[Bellatheball]

I remember hearing all of this a very long time ago. Right when he made it big he dumped her. I've never liked him because of that (even though I was just a teenager at the time). I was waiting for the day someone brought it back up.