View From the Bushes

Let's have a little talk about Peter Scolari. Here's a guy who got his start on the show Bosom Buddies with a man you might have heard of, Tom Hanks. Now certainly Peter has not lacked for work, nor do I imagine that he is impoverished or even unhappy, but sometimes you really have to wonder about how fickle fate is.

Here's Tom Hanks, one of the top three actors in Hollywood, recognized the world over by hundreds of millions of people and then there's poor Peter, relegated to poorly produced Disney series, bit roles on The King of Queens (which is how I was reminded of him), and anything else which requires an uptight inoffensive white male. You have to figure that sometimes late at night when he's lying in bed staring at the ceiling he wonders what Tom did that he didn't.

Where I am going with this, I have no idea. Maybe I'm saying that no matter how good you have it, there's always someone who has it better than you, and if old Peter had arranged for Hanks to have some kind of accident, maybe he'd be the one making 20 million dollars a movie. Of course, now it's far too late -- Hanks is much too visible to be conveniently removed. So the moral is that if you're going to eliminate your rivals do it before they become world-famous.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross