Larry Hanks
During The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2017, his brother Tom was asked if he were to introduce Tom Hanks, how he would introduce or characterize him.
Then Tom, in his reply, said he would introduce Tom Hanks by saying Here’s a man whose brother is a tenured professor in Entomology at the University of Illinois.
He recalled an incident with his wife where they were on their anniversary trip to Joshua Tree National Park.
When they were walking around, they saw some of the college students with some odd little suction cuppy kind of things which were on the back of cacti doing something on the base of cacti.
Then Tom went to them and asked them what they were doing, to which they replied saying that they were Entomology students at the University of California Riverside.
Larry earned his doctorate from the same university. According to Tom, his brother Larry insists on being called Professor Lawrence around their house.
Continuing his story, he said that his brother is an entomologist and used to teach at Riverside and introduced himself, saying I am Tom Hanks and the students replied, “yeah, and your brother is Dr. Larry Hanks.”
Tom at the time was like he was the famous guy’s brother. He confessed to being rattled by it.
