Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks reunite to explore the blessings and heartache of fate and the survival of the human spirit. Tom Hanks gives one of the towering screen performances of all time as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun... 
 
 Actors: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt 
 
 Director: Robert Zemeckis ||||| I was at a rodeo last weekend, and when one of the bulls got stubborn and refused to head back through the gate, the rodeo announcer joked over the microphone, "He's just like Justin Bieber, folks -- don't wanna go to the pen." He then announced that the gate was Canada and we weren't going to let Bieber back in, no sir. I'm thinking that when a crowd of rodeo fans is laughing at you (even the older people who were like, Oh, that Justin Beaver, he's no good), you've got a pretty major public opinion problem -- but Bieber just may have redeemed himself ever so slightly on Monday. 
 
 He didn't cure a fatal disease or even offer a heartfelt apology for being such a waste of food in recent years, but Bieber did post a delightful video of Tom Hanks wearing a yarmulke and dancing to "This Is How We Do It." It's so strangely cheering, I can almost forgive Justin Bieber for being ... well, you know: Justin Bieber. 
 
 If you're wondering how this magical moment came to be, apparently Scott Samuel "Scooter" Braun -- Justin's manager -- got hitched to the startlingly lovely (and awesome) Yael Cohen in Whistler this past weekend. It was a star-studded affair with attendees like Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, Ed Sheeran, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Sophia Bush, and Bieber serenaded the just-married couple with a rendition of "All You Need Is Love." 
 
 TMZ reports that during the reception, Carly Rae and Justin both sang "Call Me Maybe," which sounds extremely bleeeaaaaaaaarrrgh, but here's the important thing: at some point Tom Hanks donned a yarmulke and tallit and got down to the '90s Montell Jordan hit. 
 
 Check it out: 
 
 Now, here's the funny thing about perceptions -- if it was Justin Bieber wearing the traditional garb and dancing around, I bet we'd find it obnoxious as hell. (Frankly, even Bieber's description of the religious clothing as being "dressed like a rabbi" like it was a Halloween costume sounds ignorant.) But since it's Tom Hanks, it's impossible to believe he meant any offense. Instead, it's just a few seconds of pure awesome. That smile! Those raised arms! T.Hanks for this moment, Tom Hanks. 
 
 Do you find it hopeful that even a squeaky wet fart like Justin Bieber knows when he's in the presence of greatness? 
 
 
 
 
 
 Image via Tom Hanks/Twitter 
 

– The gossip media is abuzz with a nice story for once, thanks to Humans of New York. The website offered a story yesterday from a New York taxi driver, who recalled a time he initially declined to take a passenger because he needed to go too far and the driver's shift had just ended. But he changed his mind and called the guy back; when he got in, he was "all animated, and he's talking about all these things. But he's got his cap pulled down way over his eyes, so I can't see who it is. But pretty soon I start to recognize his voice." It was Tom Hanks, and at a red light, the driver turned to him and yelled, "WILSON!" Cast Away-style. Hanks liked that, the driver says, and started calling the cabbie "Mr. Ferrari" because he was wearing a Ferrari hat and shirt. They took a photo together, and over the next few weeks, the driver happened to pick up other passengers who knew Hanks. He told each of them, "Tell Mr. Hanks that Mr. Ferrari says 'hello,'" the cabbie says. One of the passengers eventually texted the driver to let him know Hanks had invited him to see him in Lucky Guy on Broadway. The driver and his date even got to go backstage, and when Hanks walked into his dressing room to see them there, he screamed, "Mr. Ferrari!" (For more fun, click to watch Tom Hanks dancing to "This Is How We Do It.")