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Hear our sweetest Tom recap key scenes from our favorite movie. Hearing his voice is already a treat as always.

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I know I‘m one day too late but in celebration of Tom‘s birthday, YouTube gave me some wonderful nuggets of BTS material for Amadeus I hadn‘t yet seen.

Please enjoy our Tom, as he looks now, talking about the one beautiful movie where most of us if not all of us fell in love with him.

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With Tom’s 72nd birthday coming up soon, I thought it would be kind of nice to post something that fits the occasion.

I found some gorgeous photographs taken by Walter McBride ON Tom‘s 30th birthday, December 6 1983, as he attended the screening of „The Dresser“ in NYC!!!

His hair is still in his Amadeus phase, so naturally, I was desperately in love with them right away *.* To me, they are extra special because there are so few photos of him between the time of the shoot of Amadeus 1983 and the promotion/award season in 1985!

The fact that he went to the movies with a friend instead of having a huge party is so adorable to me…

I also noticed that the woman with him is Valerie Mahaffey with whom he‘d performed in Romeo and Juliet before and later on in The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket. They were born the same year and apparently such close friends that they would spend the night of his 30th birthday together. Sadly, she died earlier this year.

Some pictures I found on gettyimages the other day. Him having to accept the Golden Globe he was nominated for himself on behalf of Murray aways breaks my heart a little even though he gave such a lovely speech.

Plus, I‘m always here for Tom with a beard. Plus, if you zoom in really close (as I always do), you can see that he‘s wearing a Dukakis button here *.* I don‘t know why, but knowing he was unabashedly a Democrat in Reagan‘s America gave me butterflies.

Thought our little community might understand my musings…

Another day, another Tom Hulce gem: Anyone want to hear our dearest Tom Hulce read to us from a phone book? Or talk about how he was interested in playing a Polish woman or a teenage receptionist in Stranger Than Fiction?

A lovely, unusually long (although unfortunately incomplete) interview, seeing Tom from his funny, charming, comfortable, talkative side - perhaps it truly depends on who he is talking to and maybe just his form on any particular day.

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He is killing me - adorable at any age! His voice is always the same!

In case any of you are up for a kind of quiet, kind of untalkative, kind of unapproachable Tom Hulce tonight, I just found an extensive interview with him (or attempt thereof xD) on the set of Frankenstein. He looks fabulous as always… he sniffles a lot and is back to his super quiet, hesitant self and fumbling around everywhere with his hands but my Lord, if I wasn‘t here for every second of it. This obsession finds new things to cling itself to every day. I‘m so glad to share it with you all.

His interview starts at 12:06. I hope I could make the day of the members of our small community here the same way this video made mine.

And just in case you can‘t get enough of the Frankenstein interviews, here are some more:

https://www.gettyimages.de/search/2/film?phrase=frankenstein%20tom%20hulce&sort=mostpopular&license=rf%2Crr

Whenever I watch that scene in „Animal House“, I ask myself if it was an inside joke that Clorette calls him „Tommy“ when she doesn‘t recognize him in front of her window… the way he whispers his *own* name in total shock always kills me. Maybe it was a coincidence and even the original script said „Tommy“, too, but I love to imagine that he maybe didn‘t even know what name she would call him by mistake and had to go with it being his own name in that scene.

That‘s what I spend my holidays imagining. Just putting my insanity out there, maybe someone on here can understand my musings.

OMG OMG OMG - guys!!!! I just found a new interview, it‘s only been up a day and we see an entirely different Tom here. So talkative, not quiet and hesitant at all. I just had the best evening discovering this and I know you will too!!! What a gem to have unearthed. Googling his name every day for the past 15 years does pay off from time to time… I can‘t wait to hear your reactions *.*

Tom vibes… going through all kinds of emotions when I look at these… IMO there is no movie where his hair is fluffier and he looks more handsome than in Slam Dance. Hair and make up and costume really made him shine and that red jacket is just… beyond.

*An interview with Ray Liotta about „Dominick & Eugene“, which I cannot find online anymore or else I would just post the link… but I transcribed it because I‘m crazy and I archive everything by or about Tom Hulce… maybe some other fans will enjoy it, too.*

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Liotta: Around the second or third callback, I got the feel that it was working in my direction. And then, the last audition was, they were gonna pair me up with another actor, with the Nicky, and they told Tom they’re gonna pair him up with the Eugene. And I couldn’t imagine for the life of me who it could be. I was trying to think of who these guys knew, who they worked with before – because I heard there were a lot of like heavy-weight kind of actors going after these roles. And Tom didn’t know. And I’m sitting there – I got there first and I’m waiting to see who’s gonna walk in ‘cause it’s kind of exciting – and in walks Amadeus. I said “Oh my Gosh. Mozart! That should be fun!“ And then, when he walked in and saw that it was me and he had just seen “Something Wild” about a week or two before and really liked it – so we started out with a nice mutual admiration.

Interviewer: But probably each of you terribly surprised to see the other one.

Liotta: Oh yeah, it was definitely out of left field, it wasn’t typical at all. I don’t think he would’ve expected me because of what he’d seen me in “Something Wild” and I didn’t know… I just saw Tom in „Amadeus“ and maybe „Animal House“, which I don’t even remember. Yeah, it was shocking. But yet, it seemed so right.

Interviewer: Seeing the two of you on the screen, it just appears that really you could be brother. I mean, it’s so convincing. Now, do you have a brother or does Tom have brothers?

Liotta: No, I have a sister, who I never really got along with until about a few years ago. And Tom has a brother and a couple of sisters - but he was never really close to them, I think he’s the baby. So they were pretty much out of the house by the time he was coming along. And then he left – from what I gathered – he left high school to go to a high school somewhere else for performing arts. He always wanted to act. So no, we really weren’t drawing on anything in our personal lives, it was more our imaginations and a good script.

It is truly amazing how different the aura of all of his characters is. He becomes them. And at the same time, incredibly, his characters all profit from the gentleness and sweetness that surrounds HIM as a person. I don‘t know how to describe it any differently. He becomes them but gives them his humanity and general air of innocence.