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Wide exterior ULCA Royce Hall2. Logo: The Shakespeare Center -- Los Angeles3. Pan down actor Tom Hanks4. Setup shot actor Tom Hanks5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Hanks/Actor: \"We're here, this is a...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e AP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 9 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide exterior ULCA Royce Hall\u003cbr/\u003e2. Logo: The Shakespeare Center -- Los Angeles\u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan down actor Tom Hanks\u003cbr/\u003e4. Setup shot actor Tom Hanks\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Hanks/Actor: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We're here, this is a one-time, it's for The Shakespeare Center -- Los Angeles. We come in. It's a cavalcade of celebrities in here - some of whom have done Shakespeare before, some of whom not. And it's a one-time only. We sell it out. We rehearsed it today. We're performing it tonight. Hardly anybody knows what they're doing so anything could happen. It could be hellzapoppin in here, by way of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'\"\u003cbr/\u003eLocation and exact date unknown, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e6. STILL: Actor Tom Hanks, chat-show host Oprah Winfrey and actress Julia Roberts. \u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 9 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Hanks/Actor, on appearing with Julia Roberts on one of the last new editions of \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\": \u003cbr/\u003e\"You know, it's interesting. I think the entire city of Chicago is shuttering a little bit. You know? It's not just an institution, it's like people have been coming into Chicago for the last -- what? -- 30 years in order to do 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' You know, it's a huge facility, and she is a cultural for who is, actually, not going away, because she's going to be very much part of the television horizon. But there's something about that hour every afternoon at 3 o'clock where you're going to see something that you've never seen before. I've got to say, I bow before cultural icons like Oprah, who take things that can be as minor and goofy as an hour worth of TV and turn it into something that is actually something everybody can be talking about. You know what's going to be missing now from the vernacular? 'Did you see Oprah yesterday? Did you see that girl on 'Oprah?' Did you see that thing on 'Oprah?' So, we're going to miss her. God bless her service. But we'll get by.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Set up shot actor-director Kenneth Branagh\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenneth Branagh/Actor-Director, on actors goofing around during \"Simply Shakespeare\" productions: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Shakespeare talks a lot about clowns. He talks a lot about clowning. He's a popular entertainer. And I think one of the things that an evening like this does, and I've been to see it but I haven't been in it before, is this riotous kind of quality. So, it's really pretty anarchic and lunatic. Now that's all through the plays, and you really get it on an evening like this. And you've got some amazing, amazing talents here. And they keep it very loose. And it's respectful but not reverential at all. So, it's more like kind of a party feel to it.\" \u003cbr/\u003eParamount\u003cbr/\u003eNo re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e10. Trailer excerpt: \"Thor\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 9 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenneth Branagh/Actor-Director, on \"Thor\" emerging his first Hollywood blockbuster as a director, and if he feels vindication after the failure of his first big-budget Hollywood film, \"Frankenstein\": \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, here's the thing. At this end of it, you're just so thrilled people are watching it, they're seeing it. they're connecting with it. It feels like a universal story. What I'm really thrilled with is people are saying already that they're going back, they're talking their kids, they're taking people that they didn't think wouldn't necessarily like it. It's an unusual character that they're not familiar with. They say they're surprised. They're surprised it's so funny. They enjoyed Chris Hemsworth's performance, its new star, enormously. All of that feels absolutely fantastic. So you never know if you're going to connect with the audience. That's what's important. Vindication? I don't know. But a thrill that something you worked on for a long time, that's wonderful.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Set up shot actress-producer Rita Wilson\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Rita Wilson/Actress-Producer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, we're very blessed to have many stages in Los Angeles. And we've been doing this for The Shakespeare Center for about 21 years. And it's evolved from a very, very small, upstairs theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse to here at Royce Hall where we have 1800 seats. Pretty great. And, over the years. we've had extraordinary people come and participate from Anthony Hopkins, to Will Smith, to Mike Myers, to Jack Lemmon, to Renee Zellwegger and tonight we have Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Kenneth Branagh, who actually does real Shakespeare , and, you know, he's probably Tweeting about it right now (in English accent) like, 'What the hell are these people doing?' I don't know, it might be scary.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: \"But I think you are slumming with one of the stars here.\")\u003cbr/\u003eWilson: \"Which one?\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: \"Tom!\")\u003cbr/\u003eWilson: \"Oh, gosh, that guy! But he's so cute though. And I get to sleep with him later. I really like him. (Laughs.)\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide actress-producer Rita Wilson speaking to press\u003cbr/\u003eSurrounded by skateboarding and surfing collegiates, UCLA's Royce Hall is about as far as one can imagine from the Bard of Avon's old stomping grounds. But some of Hollywood's elite did their best to bring William Shakespeare to southern California with the 21st edition of \"Simply Shakespeare,\" an all-star reading of \"The Merry Wives of Windsor\" Monday (9 MAY 2011) to benefit The Shakespeare Center -- Los Angeles. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We're here, this is a one-time (thing),\" said actor Tom Hanks. \"We come in. It's a cavalcade of celebrities in here -- some of whom have done Shakespeare before, some of whom not. And it's a one-time only. We sell it out. We rehearsed it today. We're performing it tonight. Hardly anyone knows what they're doing in there. So anything could happen. It could be hellzapoppin in here, by way of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'\"\u003cbr/\u003eAmong the participants: Christina Applegate, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Eric Idle, Tracey Ullman, and the one person you'd actually expect to find here: actor-director Kenneth Branagh, who rose to fame bringing Shakespeare to the masses with such films as \"Henry V\" and \"Much Ado About Nothing.\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"Shakespeare talks a lot about clowns,\" Branagh said. \"He talks a lot about clowning. He's a popular entertainer. And I think one of the things that an evening like this does, and I've been to see it but I haven't been in it before, is this riotous kind of quality. So, it's really pretty anarchic and lunatic. Now, that's all through the plays, and you really get it on an evening like this. And you've got some amazing, amazing talents here. And they keep it very loose. And it's respectful but not reverential at all. So, it's more like kind of a party feel to it.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBoth Hanks and Branagh are coming off career milestones. Hanks just appeared with frequent co-star Julia Roberts on one of the last original episodes of \"The Oprah Winfrey Show.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"You know, it's interesting,\" Hanks noted. \"I think the entire city of Chicago is shuttering a little bit. You know? It's not just an institution, it's like people have been coming into Chicago for the last -- what? -- 30 years in order to do 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.'You know, it's a huge facility, and she is a cultural for who is, actually, not going away, because she's going to be very much part of the television horizon. But there's something about that hour every afternoon at 3 o'clock where you're going to see something that you've never seen before. I've got to say, I bow before cultural icons like Oprah, who take things that can be as minor and goofy as an hour worth of TV and turn it into something that is actually some everybody can be talking about.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBranagh is riding high on his first huge Hollywood-produced hit, \"Thor,\" a global smash and the weekend's No. 1 U.S. box-office hit. His last attempt at a big-budget studio effort was the much-maligned flop \"Frankenstein.\" Does Branagh now feel vindicated?\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, here's the thing,\" he replied. \"At this end of it, you're just so thrilled people are watching it, they're seeing it. they're connecting with it. It feels like a universal story. What I'm really thrilled with is people are saying already that they're going back, they're talking their kids, they're taking people that they didn't think wouldn't necessarily like it. It's an unusual character that they're not familiar with. They say they're surprised. They're surprised it's so funny. 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