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When the Academy Awards are given out, the speeches that follow often sound alike.

Here's a look back at some of our favorite New York love stories-- from An Affair To Remember to Blue Valentine , with three appearances by Meg Ryan, four by Tom Hanks, two musicals, a lotta kisses, heartbreak, the Verrazano, and the wisdom of Woody Allen.

Tom Hanks Dad INCREDIBLE. I DIDN'T KNOW TOM HANKS DAD WAS THE LEAD SINGER OF THE DIAMONDS WAY BACK IN 1957! THEY SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME AS THEY DID! 2 Performances 47 years apart FYI, the lead singer of the Diamonds is also the father of TOM HANKS.

Warner Bros' year-end release Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close faced a challenge of being too late and too early - simultaneously.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close was directed by Stephen Daldry, known for The Reader, Billy Elliot , and the Hours . It has been advertised as a stunning, avant garde movie centering on how the 9-11 tragedy affects one family.

Jose Merlos is biking across the country to raise money for a well in a town in Africa.

Stephen Daldry's newest screen adaptation, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," is a well thought-out story of a 9/11 child-victim's struggle to cope with loss.

Wow. Director Stephen Daldry has become a modern classic. His work might not appeal to mass audiences, but his movies cover such unique human stories that it is hard for me not to love each of them .

"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" An 11-year-old boy discovers a key left by his father , who was killed in the Sept.

We go to the movies to escape. In the darkness of the theater we meet superheros, crime fighters, super sleuths and glamour girls.

9-12 at McCrary Theatre on the Elon campus. The play is based on the Miklos Lszl musical "Parfumerie," which was the basis for the film "Shop Around the Corner" and subsequently the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan film "You've Got Mail." Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Feb.

"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," starring Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks and Thomas Horn, has the intention of being a bittersweet story about a boy believing his father left him a message before he died in the Twin Towers on 9/11. However, critics seem to be mixed as to how to take the film.

In addition to being governor of the Academy, Hanks has enjoyed a longtime collaboration with Grazer, who produced his films Apollo 13 , The Da Vinci Code , and Angels & Demons among others.

Picture: Tom Hanks , Thomas Horn and Stephen Daldry The 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala at The Palm Springs Convention Center - Press Room Los Angeles, California .... Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal and Annette Bening were among the mourners who remembered late Oscars producer Gil Cates at a memorial service in Los ... (more)

"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.

"Grandparent scams" have recent hit Akron where elderly people in the area are conned by people claiming to be their grandchildren to send them money, only to have the money go to foreign locations.

Imagine the conference where writers Danny Bilson and PaulDeMeo pitched the script for Zone Troopers : "It's like Star Wars meets Saving Private Ryan meets E.T. " And it iskind of.

Throughout this Oscar season, we are looking back at some of the great moments in Academy Awards history.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close focuses on a boy's loss of his father at the World Trade Center and his quest to find the lock that fits a mysterious key his father left behind.

THE best movie share tip was in Forrest Gump - where Tom Hanks' character invested in Apple, which he described as ''some fruit company''. And the guileless Gump might be puzzled about the company today.