A few weeks back, a cafe society thread (which I won’t bother to ressurect) reminisced about the early 80s sitcom “Square Pegs” starring a very young (and big-nosed) Sarah Jessica Parker as one of two geeky leads. The OP wondered what happened to the other star of that series, and a poster suggested she spends her days shredding photos of Mrs. Matthew Broderick (a.k.a. Sarah Jessica) and wailing “It should have been me!”
That got me to thinking about other past “duos” in which one became a huge success, while the other went nowhere. Immediately, I thought about Alex Winter …a.k.a. “Bill” from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Remember him? I imagine that he spends his days hounding Keanu Reeve’s agent with proposals for another Bill & Ted sequel. I doubt very much that he & Keanu are doing lunch too often. I wonder does he watch “the Matrix” flicks with a tear in his eye? Poor guy.
Anyway, who else is out there grousing about how they got left behind? Any ideas?
Peter Scolari co-starred with Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies.
Except for a stint on Newhart and a guest star appearance on The West Wing, I haven’t seen much of him. In any event, his fame pales in comparison to Tom Hanks.
I was thinking the other girl in “Square Pegs” was on a sitcom now. Maybe just someone who looks like her. Can’t look it up because I don’t know which show!
Other than that cheesy made-for-TV movie of last year or the year before, has Burt Ward done anything in the acting business since Batman? For that matter, has Adam West?
Gilbert Gottfried was hosting a Burt Ward movie one night on USA. At one point he said (now imaging Gottfried saying this), “Burt Ward said he wan-ted to get as faaaar a-way from ac-ting as poss-i-ble af-ter Bat-man. And booooy, does he e-ver in this mo-vie.”
Scolari showed up in the Hanks-written, directed, and produced “That Thing You Do” as well as sharing the role of Pete Conrad (third man on the moon) in the Hanks-produced “From The Earth To The Moon” miniseries.
I remember noticing him in That Thing You Do, and thinking how nice it was that his old friend Hanks gave him a job. Also, did you notice that two of the boys in the band resembled a younger Scolari and Hanks?*
*The one boy was actually the same actor who played the 12-year-old boy Tom Hanks grew up from in Big
He actually taught a few classes at Hampton University while I was there. I saw him on campus once, but unfortunately, my white suit was being cleaned.
