- Tom Hanks, Bachelor Party, 1983. A dirty little comedy that was as dramatic, behind the camera, as the heavier 1956 film of the same name. After one week, head Fox Joe Wizan sacked the leads (Paul Reiser and Kelly McGillis) during rehearsals for bad (or no) chemistry and spent three weeks testing new Richies – er, no, now it was Ricky. The queue included Jim Carrey, Howie Mandell, Dean Paul Martin, David Naughton (An American Werewolf in London) and Tim Robbins. Not Hanks… He’d previously passed but was called back (for $15,000 a week) after completing Splash – which would make him a star. McGillis McGillis had the last laugh: Witness, Top Gun and The Accused while Reiser headed TV’s Mad About You, 1992-1999. Oh and a Bachelor sequel came out… 24 years later. Never met anyone who saw it.
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