On this episode of "Secret Talent Theatre," Tom Hanks shows you how to change a ribbon on a Hermes 3000 typewriter. on a Hermes 3000. No typewriter has ever been made that is better than a Hermes.

It hardly seems possible, but stories like the one you’re reading used to be written on manual typewriters whose keys would stick when the machines got older. You also had to change the ribbon, which ...