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If one is fortunate enough to carry one of those Italian names beginning with Bon- or Buon(buono good), for example, one's value is announced to all the world: the parents of Michelangelo Buonarroti (arrota `gain,' from arrogare `to acquire'; the compound, say Hanks and Hodges, was originally bestowed when parents welcomed the birth of a child) probably were not surprised that he turned out so well, although they might have had even higher hopes for his little brother, Buonarroto Buonarroti .
Incidentally, the reviewer of A Dictionary of First Names , by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, is wrong to state that “they choose to ignore Hugo .” They don't: it is included as a variant of Hugh .
The film is set in '63, I guess, before the civil-rights movement kicked into really high gear, and underneath the liberal veneer of many a Hanks film I sense some creepy nostalgia for this simpler time.
For me, the red alert was the sight of Tom Hanks gulping and tearing up.
Or are both Hanks and Washington in scripts you don't like because as scripts they embody treacly triumphalism?