Hanks Swaggers Into Broadway Stardom in ‘Lucky’: Review
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By the end of “Lucky Guy,” you’re going to like Tom Hanks a lot more than Mike McAlary, the tabloid byline he plays with magnetic appeal in his Broadway debut.
That’s exactly as it’s meant to be. Hanks: Good-guy hero. McAlary: Hero, maybe. Good guy? Well, that’s the more complicated issue that Nora Ephron was getting at when she wrote this valentine to the New York tabloid wars of the 1980s and ’90s along with the reporter who best exemplified them.