The next year, Hanks landed a lead role on the ABC television pilot of Bosom Buddies, playing the role of Kip Wilson.

Bosom Buddies ran for two seasons, and, although the ratings were never strong, television critics gave the program high marks.

Bosom Buddies and a guest appearance on a 1982 episode of Happy Days (" A Case of Revenge ," where he played a disgruntled former classmate of The Fonz ) prompted director Ron Howard to contact Hanks.

The two first met on the set of Hanks's television show Bosom Buddies but later developed a romantic interest while working on the film Volunteers.

", " Open a New Window ", " We Need a Little Christmas ," and " Bosom Buddies " from Mame ; and " I Won't Send Roses " and " Time Heals Everything " from Mack & Mabel.

* Peter Scolari, film and television actor, most notably starred in Bosom Buddies, graduated from Edgemont High School

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The two women acknowledge each other in a biting little exchange, setting up the " friendly " rivalry that the two must have shared as leading ladies of the Broadway stage as they launch into " Bosom Buddies.

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Hopkins made a very successful acting career for herself in series such as Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break, Family Matters, and Half and Half.

A member of the 1970s pop group Tony Orlando and Dawn, she later starred in several television sitcoms, including Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break !, Family Matters, Getting By, and Half & Half.

* Bosom Buddies, as Isabelle Hammond ( 1980 – 1982 )

Bosom Buddies is an American sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson.

Bosom Buddies was taped on Stage 25 at Paramount Pictures.

Like many other sitcoms that aired during the 1980-81 television season, Bosom Buddies felt the effects of a strike by the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists that occurred in 1980.

Bosom Buddies was one of the last shows to use the Miller-Milkis-Boyett production team due to Eddie Milkis leaving the company in 1984.

As previously mentioned, Bosom Buddies reruns aired briefly on NBC in the summer of 1984.

Bosom Buddies began airing on Me-TV on October 2, 2011.

CBS DVD ( distributed by Paramount ) released both seasons of Bosom Buddies on Region 1 DVD.

Peter Scolari ( born September 12, 1955 ) is an American television, film and stage actor best known for his roles in the television shows Newhart, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, and Bosom Buddies, the last of which he co-starred in with a then-unknown Tom Hanks.

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( 1981 ), Private Benjamin ( 1981 ), Bosom Buddies ( 1980 ), Diff ' rent Strokes ( 1978 ), Me and Maxx ( 1980 ), Good Times ( 1974 ), Sanford and Son ( 1972 ), Mary Tyler Moore ( 1970 ), Love, American Style ( 1969 ) and Star Trek ( 1969 ).

O ' Neill's experiments with theatrical form and his combination of Naturalist and Expressionist techniques inspired other playwrights to use greater freedom in their works, whether expanding the techniques of Realism, as in Susan Glaspell's Trifles, or borrowing more heavily from German Expressionism ( e. g., Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine ), Other distinct movements during this period include folk-drama / regionalism ( Paul Green's Pulitzer-winning In Abraham's Bosom ), " pageant " drama ( Green's The Lost Colony, about the mysterious Roanoke Colony ), and even a return to poetic drama ( Maxwell Anderson's Winterset ).

According to Maldonatus ( 1583 ), whose theory has since been accepted by many scholars, the metaphor " to be in Abraham's Bosom " is derived from the custom of reclining on couches at table which prevailed among the Jews during and before the time of Christ.

), and of the highest form of that reward as lying in " Abraham's Bosom ".

At the bottom is Paradise with the " Bosom of Abraham " ( left ), and the Good Thief ( right ).

Both " Compartments " still exist, but Abraham's Bosom is now empty, while the other chamber is not, according to this doctrine.

According to James Tabor this Eastern Orthodox picture of Particular Judgment is similar to the 1st-century Jewish and Early Christian concept that the dead either " Rest in Peace " in the Bosom of Abraham ( mentioned in the Gospel of Luke ) or suffer in Hades.

A land-locked brackish pool called Abraham's Bosom is used for pleasure boating and canoeing.

Lazarus and the rich man are shown during life in the top register, in the middle is Lazarus in the Bosom of Abraham, and at the bottom Dives is suffering in Hades.

The Bosom of Abraham occurs in only one New Testament passage, the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, which is only in the gospel of Luke ( 16: 19-31 ; see and ).

Consequently identification of Bosom of Abraham with Paradise is contested.

When Christians pray that the angels may carry the soul of the departed to " Abraham's Bosom ", non-Orthodox Christians might mean it as heaven ; as it is taught in the West that those in the Limbo of the Fathers went to heaven after the Ascension of Jesus, and so Abraham himself is now in heaven.

That is rejected and in contrast to the Eastern Christian concept of the Bosom of Abraham.

Proponents of the mortality of the soul, and general judgement, for example Seventh-day Adventists, Christadelphians, and Christian Universalists, argue that this is a parable using the framework of Jewish views of the Bosom of Abraham.

She is perhaps best known for her roles as Ruth Dunbar in Bosom Buddies, as Judge Roberta Kittleson in The Practice and as Evelyn Harper in Two and a Half Men.