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

In a California bar where everybody knows your name, there was a friendly tippler parked at the rail. And just like in the ...

George Wendt, right, portrayed Norm Peterson in "Cheers" with courageous candor. From left are Woody Harrelson, John Ratzenberger and Kelsey Grammer. (NBCUniversal via Getty Images) I was never a fan ...

News recently broke that George Wendt, the actor who played the beloved character Norm on the hit 1980s sitcom Cheers, passed away. Following the news, many fans, fellow actors, and colleagues took to ...

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 ...

Anyone who craved a life of sitcom fame had not spent time with George Wendt, a man who could not walk into a restaurant or take a stroll in the fresh air without cacophonous cries of “Norm!” coming ...

Who was Norm Peterson? You’re aging yourself if you know the answer to the question. More realistically, you aged yourself by clicking on an opinion piece with “Norm Peterson” in the title. About what ...

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“It is going to take me a long time to get used to this. I love you, Georgie,” a simple statement from “Cheers” co-star Ted Danson, that the actor shared after news broke that George Wendt died on ...