Show 'The Salt Lake Tribune THE ARTS Sunday July 24 1994 E6 'Gump' creator Winston Groom have much in common Jonathan Mandell By NEWSDAY - Hanks is not Forrest (ump despite what the ads and the posters for the hit movie say If that honor belongs to anybody it belongs to Winston Groom who has much in common with the Tom simple-minde- d pure-hearte- i 1 -- 1 ' '-'- ''''' ''''''' 1i —::it 7g442 :5 wiii iimoir' ' - d ferent the difference indeed can be startling — and if you are (like Groom) Gump's creator perhaps annoying In one scene from the movie just after President Johnson has given him the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam Gump in his dress uniform stumbles onto the makeshift stage of a massive antiwar demonstration and is asked to give his opinion about the war Suddenly an angry veteran sabotages the sound system and Gump delivers his views into the microphone heard neither by the protesters nor by moviegoers Readers of the novel learn Gump's views on the war quite " he clearly: "It is a bunch of says more than once simply scatologically and to the point "Movies is movies and books is books" Groom says Gumpishly over the telephone from the home he shares with his wife in Point Clear Ala The author stayed away from the movie set and was 4 sot: I ' ' 4s — 'ItZ1 whose dumb luck lands him in the center of nearly every major event of the past several man-bo- y 1 "14111C46 471 IL' 4 decades Both Groom and Gump are big and 240 pounds) both grew up in Mobile Ala (Groom the only son of a rich old family Gump the orphan of a longshoreman crushed to death by a load of ' 111 N It both played football (Gump as a college star Groom only in high school) both served in Vietnam (Gump as a grunt Groom as a second lieutenant) both spent time in Washington (Gump as the guest of presidents Groom as a newspaper columnist for the Washington Star before he quit cold turkey in and moved to New the York to become a novelist) -Of course" Groom adds "I bananas) I ' placard-wieldin- ''''44"L141010 4Vrilg° : "s' li n 4A0 ' - '' 1 Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump didn't become a professional now-defun- mid-1970- - - wrestler and wrestle The Turd as Forrest does And I didn't go up in outer space or spend four years playing chess with a cannibal" s IFL ':''''W- 14- - I C t4 A ''A - ‘ 1 0 iI ' T'"n' VS '141tk-s- I 1- ''I I 1 C) ') okinq 7"1 34it!' ttn'gth a Group A - -- r thotography'F""' - 0 i :' Hi h I- ' - Phototlrephy - -- 13 — 4 t :i I Nit —er' i t! 4t itr' -I 111 : Ate lip ''' r I Purchase One Make-ov- Photo Session For Just & er a 0-- Scpumber 103994 A WW1' FUNKY HEART- - CENT5ED -- The 1994 to f your Pi ics - amateur cooking! 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"I thought it was a bunch of he says "awe-struck- life" of the fleece" and I tui it v '61s '''' h '11 Ira '' 1 since" BALLAD OF THE WEST 1----- '''N ''''''11NA i' box-offic- g A 1 ' reportedly upset at the casting of Tom Hanks in the title role Now he says "Every writer would like to see a book made into a movie that is just like the book" But he adds "This is the No 1 e hit in the country I'd be crazy to complain about this movie This movie's wonderful If I had had the opportunity to make even one change and it spoiled what they did I'd be kicking myself in the ass for the rest of my Groom is talking about the Gump of his 1986 novel The Gump of the movie is much dif- 4 notes no outline All I had was the character It just kept coming I've never done that before or "The damn phone never quits ringing" he says but then quickly adds "which is always nice" — a detour into Southern manners that does not last long "You know you feel like saying 'Where the hell were you the past five or six years?'" His first novel in 1978 Better Times Than These based on his experiences in Vietnam won him " reviews (in the description of one reviewer) a big paperback sale a profile in People magazine and a big party in the Hamp tons While still a reporter he had made friends with s Willie Morris literary at the (then Washington Star) Irwin Shaw and James Jones all Hamptons habitues Groom settled into the literary life of the Hamptons and the Upper East Side of Manhattan Groom wrote Forrest Gump eight years ago after a conversation with his father about a retarded boy from his youth who was also an accomplished pianist "I wrote it in six weeks I had no Mre'!11 air " CDP121 CALL Aas 5 12: TICKETS AT $495 ACES 4 AND UNDE2: 359-860- 0 999 SOUTH VIZI TRZE FOR DETAILS! 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