Tom and Bruce reunite at Tribeca film festival

Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks paid tribute on Friday night to the late director Jonathan Demme, the man who brought them together on his film Philadelphia, which won each of them Oscars.

“God bless Jonathan Demme, we just lost him,” Hanks told the crowd attending an event that was part of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Storyteller series. Demme, the Oscar-winning director of Silence of the Lambs, died of cancer last week. Springsteen, who won an Oscar for best original song for the film, called Demme “inspirational.”

Hanks, who won the best actor Academy Award for the 1993 film, played the role of a fan during the hourlong session and questioned Springsteen about his life and early career. — AP