Jim Lovell Ride Way. Lovell's formal education consisted of the following: Lovell's awards and decorations include: About a month after the return to Earth of Apollo 13, Lovell and his crewmates, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, appeared on "The Tonight Show" with host Johnny Carson. The introduction of this segment of the show is featured on "Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13" on the single disc DVD version of the movie. In 1976, Lovell made a cameo appearance in the Nicolas Roeg movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth". In 1995, actor Tom Hanks portrayed Lovell in the film "Apollo 13",
Tom Hanks climbed back to the top again with his portrayal of a washed-up baseball legend turned manager in "A League of Their Own" (1992). Hanks has stated that his acting in earlier roles was not great, but that he subsequently improved. In an interview with "Vanity Fair", Hanks noted his ""modern era of moviemaking ... because enough self-discovery has gone on ... My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top"". This "modern era" began in 1993 for Hanks, first with "Sleepless in Seattle" and then with "Philadelphia". The former was a blockbuster success about a widower who finds