Tom Hanks Calls The Owner Of An Edinburgh Bookstore His "Idol."

The 35-year-old invited Hanks to visit his stationery shop when a typewriter exhibit was displayed at the National Museum of Scotland. Mr. Hodges, Scotland's typewriter mechanic, said he was "very pleased" to receive the letter. He told Scotland: "The reason it's cool to me is not the same as anyone else's.

"He may be a great Hollywood actor, but to me, it's all about his love of typewriters. There were some typewriter freaks like Ben Alisher in New Orleans and Luke Winter, who owned the Glasgow Story Wagon, but Tom Hanks took the crown.

Description: Tom Hanks has been collecting typewriters since his youth

About two months ago, Mr. Hodges wrote to Hanks from his grandfather's old Remington Noiseless typewriter explaining everything about his life and how he became a typewriter and mechanic "manatee." He also placed an origami dragon this he had made.

Mr. Hodges tell : "I told him how I left Edinburgh to live an unconventional life in Paris and live like a fool in the Shakespeare and Company bookstore. "This is a bookstore in Paris where you can sleep and live. You show up, and when they have a seat, you can stay."

"There is a tradition there to be friendly to strangers so that angels don't disguise themselves. So I came dressed like a crazy parrot in all colors and my coat to the floor. I thought it was a perfect disguise because they let me stay. There were lots of places to sleep.

"They had an old, worn-out typewriter, and that's where I learned to fix it so I could encourage other Tumbleweeds to write on it." In a notebook of chapters from the biographical film set about Elvis directed by Baz Luhrmann, Hanks celebrates Mr. Hodges for "battling giants to sell the best books - and keeping the typewriter alive" when he indicated he would have capital in the future. Close front.

Mr. Hodges said he was very curious when the letter reached his shop.  Then Tom Hodges inside said you were my hero, and I refused and there's the name Tom Hanks. "It was a properly written letter with an error.

"Typewriter mechanics hate Tipp-Ex for getting into mechanics, so it's nice to see him fix his mistakes. Hank's letter bore the emblem of King's famed manager, Colonel Tom Parker - who the actor is scheduled to play in a film due for release next year - when he wrote the letter from the set. At one point, he owned hundreds of machines which he called "a brilliant combination of art and technology." He now has 120.