One of the things that got me through the entire pandemic was watching Cheers for the first time. Over the course of eleven seasons and 275 episodes, there was one character I could count on to always ...

One word can have such an impact. “Cheers” star George Wendt, who died May 20 at the age of 76, left behind a legacy in the annals of TV comedy that is hard to equal, thanks to one word: Norm. Norm ...

Norman Baffrey, a city parks official before his 1994 death, was sometimes identified as the real-life inspiration for the ...

For 11 years, fans watched George Wendt saunter onto the screen and into Cheers bar as his friends and its patrons shouted out "Norm!" to which he always responded with a sarcastic one-liner that had ...

Actor George Wendt, best known for his beloved role as beer-quaffing barfly Norm Peterson on the iconic NBC comedy "Cheers," has died. He was 76. A representative for Wendt, publicist Melissa Nathan, ...

These days, it seems that I remember things that just happened — within the past few years — and things that happened when I was a teenager or younger — 40 years or more ago. There are a lot of years ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to ...