posted 09-26-2002 11:08 AM               

Hanks, Howard coming to KSC

Andrea Shea King
Out & About

You saw him on Sunday evening's televised Emmy Awards ceremony, honoring daytime TV great Oprah Winfrey.

He's one of Hollywood's leading actors with an incomparable list of screen credits: "Saving Private Ryan," "Forrest Gump," "Sleepless in Seattle," "The Green Mile," "Toy Story," "Philadelphia" and "Apollo 13." And he is coming to the Space Coast.

Actor Tom Hanks will be in Brevard in November. And he will be accompanied by one of Tinseltown's best directors -- and a man who has been to the moon.

Hanks and Ron Howard, along with former astronaut Jim Lovell, will be the stars lighting up the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's special showing of the movie "Apollo 13" on an IMAX screen at the Kennedy Space CenterVisitor Complex on Nov. 14. You read it here first.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation benefit, according to ASF spokesman Linn LeBlanc, will be catered by Delaware North Parks Spaceport and will be limited to about 500 guests because of the IMAX Theater's seating capacity.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation staff is busy creating the invites and developing the guest list. More details to come.