There’s something about actors. It seems they all want to be musicians. Some, like Kevin Bacon and Zooey Deschanel form their own bands in search of personal fulfillment. Others, like Oliver Stone, make movies about what it must be like to be a rock star. One of the best of these movies comes from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do.
My favorite song in the movie is ‘Dance With Me Tonight’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-i8-M075Uw
But, of course, there’s the title song which is not too shabby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzllVlzzeuo
Hanks actually wrote some of the music himself, and that tells me all I need to know why he’s a film icon but hasn’t necessarily gone on to write a whole lot of other songs: