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Gary Sinise Opens Up About Leaving Hollywood and Losing His Son to Cancer: 'I Just Want to Be Around Family'

Gary Sinise opens up about leaving Hollywood and losing his son to cancer, saying, "I just want to be around family." The 'Forrest Gump' actor, 70, who moved to Tennessee nearly two years ago, keeps his son Mac's memory alive with music.

“He spoils them rotten,” says Sinise’s daughter Sophie, 36, of her and her sister Ella’s children, who always find two things at Papa’s house: ice cream (“They know they’ll get fed a lot of it when they come,” he admits) and hugs. An actor in demand since starring in Forrest Gump and Apollo 13 in the early ’90s (he’s appeared in more than 50 feature films and TV shows, including all nine seasons of CSI: NY), Sinise saw his world turn upside down in the summer of 2018. Moira, whose mobility is also limited due to chronic back issues, encouraged Mac, a musician and composer who’d graduated from the University of Southern California music school, to teach himself harmonica, one of the few instruments he could still play.

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