Re: Bosom Buddies
I caught an episode of the old Tom Hanks show the other night. I thought for sure he’d have pulled all his industry strings to get it off the air, but there it was.
For those of you who had better things to do than watch TV in the 80’s, BB was a story of two roommates – Kip (Tom Hanks) and Henry (Peter Scolari), an aspiring artist and novelist who are biding their time working in advertising – who’s apartment building gets demolished. Having no place to go, the only room they can find is a women-only hotel (The Susan B. Anthony). Being resourceful, they create female alter egos for themselves, Buffy and Hildegard, and spend half of every episode in drag.
It was my favorite episode, the one where Kip has the gallery show and has a meltdown. I haven’t seen the show since I was about 15, but I was amazed to hear references to the early performance art scene, abstract artist Mark Rothko, the Gang of Three (the Chinese communist revolutionaries, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen and Yao Wenyuan, responsible for the Cultural Revolution and thrown into prison in the 70’s), and the Marquis de Sade.
Somehow, I remember it being much stupider. And by that I mean written for the lowest-common-denominator stupid, like “Saved by the Bell”, not silly and inspired stupid, like “Red Dwarf”.
10:21:41 AM 
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