Rita Wilson Tools Around In Classic GTO

Turns out there’s more to Rita Wilson than just being a breast-cancer survivor, the star of Broadway’s “Fish in the Dark” and such movies as “Volunteers” and “Sleepless in Seattle.” There’s even more beyond being the wife of Hollywood’s King of the Nice Guys, Tom Hanks. She’s a recording artist … and she owns a vintage white Pontiac GTO!

Rita’s sophomore album — called “Rita Wilson” — drops March 11, and she collaborated on writing the songs with veteran hit-makers such as Kara DioGuardi, Richard Marx, Jason Reeves, Nathan Champman, Sugerland’s Kristian Bush and more.

"I always wanted to do music, but I didn't believe that I could be a songwriter because I didn't play an instrument, and I had never been around anybody who had written a song,” she has said. Then she worked with Kara to write a few songs along with Jason, and thus a songwriter was born!

"I found it such an exhilarating process," Wilson said. "It's like you meet a complete stranger and you fall madly in love, you strip emotionally naked, you have musical intercourse and give birth to a song baby. It's the craziest thing." Rita will begin a 12-night residency at the Cafe Carlyle In New York City on Feb. 23, and then take off on a 17-date tour from March 29 in Solana Beach, Calif., to April 26 in Boston.