Peter Scolari

By just about any standard you can think of, Peter Scolari is a whopping success. He's been acting on TV for the past 16 years. He's had hit shows and Emmy nominations. He's well paid, has a home in Ojai, a wife and two sons. He has an offer to star in a Broadway musical. His new sitcom, "Dweebs," gets its second airing tonight on CBS. Only there's this one problem--one of his dearest friends, actually: Tom Hanks.

The biggest story in the NFL playoffs is Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts, which, of course, has me thinking about the show "Bosom Buddies." I can't watch Manning without wondering what happened to Ryan Leaf. And I can't mention Leaf without recalling Peter Scolari. If you don't know who Peter Scolari is, that's the point. Back in the early 1980s, he co-starred with Tom Hanks in a TV show called "Bosom Buddies."

The zippy, nostalgic comedy "That Thing You Do!" marks not only Tom Hanks' feature film directing debut. It's also his on-screen reunion with actor Peter Scolari. Hanks and Scolari got their big breaks 16 years ago starring in the ABC comedy series "Bosom Buddies." Scolari's Henry Desmond and Hanks' Kip Wilson were junior copywriters at a New York ad agency who dressed in drag in order to get a room in a women's-only hotel.

The zippy, nostalgic comedy "That Thing You Do!" marks not only Tom Hanks' feature film directing debut. It's also his on-screen reunion with actor Peter Scolari. Hanks and Scolari got their big breaks 16 years ago starring in the ABC comedy series "Bosom Buddies." Scolari's Henry Desmond and Hanks' Kip Wilson were junior copywriters at a New York ad agency who dressed in drag in order to get a room in a women's-only hotel.

The biggest story in the NFL playoffs is Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts, which, of course, has me thinking about the show "Bosom Buddies." I can't watch Manning without wondering what happened to Ryan Leaf. And I can't mention Leaf without recalling Peter Scolari. If you don't know who Peter Scolari is, that's the point. Back in the early 1980s, he co-starred with Tom Hanks in a TV show called "Bosom Buddies."

"Newhart's" Michael Harris, a vain, somewhat arrogant and--many think--quintessential yuppie, is in trouble. In a downward spiral that began in January, Harris (played by Peter Scolari) was fired from the "Vermont Today" television series. In February, having discovered that not even an executive headhunter could find him another job in television, Harris became a salesman at a discount shoe store.

Actors on television are usually known best by their last series role--a blessing and a curse that Peter Scolari knows too well. For six seasons on the CBS comedy series "Newhart," Scolari was familiar to audiences as the pretentious Michael Harris, a smarmy, yet somehow likable yuppie. For two seasons before "Newhart," Scolari was Hildegard, Tom Hanks' roommate-in-drag on ABC's cult sitcom "Bosom Buddies." Before that, he was a minor character in the short-lived ABC sitcom "Goodtime Girls."

Tom Hanks is one lucky guy. Maura Tierney -- a.k.a. Dr. Abby Lockhart from NBC's "ER" -- will make her Broadway debut this spring in Nora Ephron's final play, "Lucky Guy. " Tierney will play the wife of Hanks, who will star in the drama about Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Mike McAlary, the play's producers said on Monday.   Tierney, 47, may be new to Broadway, but the Emmy Award-nominated actress has logged many hours acting onstage. She appeared in the Wooster Group's revival of the satire “North Atlantic” in 2010 (which played at Los Angeles' REDCAT)

Riding the wave of strong ticket sales, Tom Hanks has added 16 performances to his Broadway run in the Nora Ephron play "Lucky Guy. " The play had been scheduled to close its limited engagement at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York on June 16, but will now remain open until July 3. Hanks is making his Broadway debut in "Lucky Guy," in which he plays the late New York tabloid journalist Mike McAlary. Directed by George C. Wolfe, the production also features Maura Tierney, Christopher McDonald and Hanks' "Bosom Buddies" co-star Peter Scolari.

"Corporate Affairs," which makes a stopover at one of the Egyptian's small annex screens on the way to the video stores, is a "Working Girl" knock-off that's tedious and contrived in the extreme. Its only interest is the opportunity it provides to see how the same actress, Mary Crosby, can be so good in one movie ("Eating") and so bad in another. In "Corporate Affairs," which Terence H.

By just about any standard you can think of, Peter Scolari is a whopping success. He's been acting on TV for the past 16 years. He's had hit shows and Emmy nominations. He's well paid, has a home in Ojai, a wife and two sons. He has an offer to star in a Broadway musical. His new sitcom, "Dweebs," gets its second airing tonight on CBS. Only there's this one problem--one of his dearest friends, actually: Tom Hanks.

Actors on television are usually known best by their last series role--a blessing and a curse that Peter Scolari knows too well. For six seasons on the CBS comedy series "Newhart," Scolari was familiar to audiences as the pretentious Michael Harris, a smarmy, yet somehow likable yuppie. For two seasons before "Newhart," Scolari was Hildegard, Tom Hanks' roommate-in-drag on ABC's cult sitcom "Bosom Buddies." Before that, he was a minor character in the short-lived ABC sitcom "Goodtime Girls."

"Newhart's" Michael Harris, a vain, somewhat arrogant and--many think--quintessential yuppie, is in trouble. In a downward spiral that began in January, Harris (played by Peter Scolari) was fired from the "Vermont Today" television series. In February, having discovered that not even an executive headhunter could find him another job in television, Harris became a salesman at a discount shoe store.

Judge Reinhold is "The Sad Professor," the title character in the fourth installment of this season's KCET comedy series "Trying Times" (Sunday at 8 p.m. and Tuesday at 10 p.m. on Channel 28). This professor starts crying at unexpected moments. Although barely 30, he's going through a premature mid-life crisis. He's tired of his perfectly supportive wife (Linda Purl).