Longevity. Norm. Cliff. Shelly Long with a career, Kirstie Alley during her "Hot" phase. Truly a bygone era, but it has allowed the dipshit network writers to throw out any mediocre product and expect it to succeed (on principle) because everyone loves a saloon as a headquarters.
Woody Harrelson in this month's Playboy interview:
ReplyDelete...PLAYBOY: Cheers.
HARRELSON: Thank you.
PLAYBOY: No, we mean that’s just before Cheers started. But how did you go from Jesus camp to Hollywood?
HARRELSON: I did a play at church when I was a junior in high school. I played a drunk in a nativity scene. Great fun. Then I did more in college and was awestruck by how a little change in your voice or demeanor onstage could get a massive reaction from an audience. It was thrilling enough to get me to move to New York to really make a go of it. But things didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. I had 17 jobs my first year and couldn’t get an agent or acting work. Severe depression sank in, and I slept all day. One afternoon a roommate of mine burst in and said, “Get the fuck out of bed. Some agent is on the phone.” The agent told me, “I saw something in your face. Will you come in and meet with me?” She ended up being my agent for years and was the one who got me the Cheers audition, not that I knew it was an audition at the moment. The day I had my meeting with the producers was before I learned I should give up dairy. I’m lactose intolerant, you see, and I was very mucousy that day. At the audition I was brought through a series of doors until I got to the room where all the decision makers were. I didn’t know who they were, so I just stood there blowing my nose. The whole place starts laughing, and I start laughing too, but that only makes me have to blow my nose even more. I had no idea the director, Jimmy Burrows, and the other producers were the guys laughing. For some reason they said, “Yeah, this is the guy to play Woody Boyd.” I had 24 hours to decide whether to move my whole life from New York to L.A. Everybody in New York told me to do it, and I damn well did it.