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The Boys In The Bar
"The Boys in the Bar" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American situation comedy television series ''Cheers''. It originally aired on January 27, 1983, on NBC. It is co-written by Ken Levine and David Isaacs and directed by James Burrows. This episode's narrative deals with homosexuality, coming out, and homophobia. It was inspired by the coming out story of former Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player, Glenn Burke. In this episode, Sam's former teammate, Tomportrayed by Alan Autryreveals his homosexuality and Sam slowly becomes supportive of him. The bar's regular customers express their disdain toward Sam's support and fear that because of Sam's support of Tom, the bar will become a place full of homosexuals. The episode's Nielsen ratings at its initial airing were low but improved after subsequent airings on NBC. This episode has received more attention since. Plot Tom Kenderson (Alan Autry), an old friend and baseball teammate of bartender Sam Malone (Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheers
''Cheers'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television (original), Paramount Network Television, and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar and namesake Cheers Beacon Hill, Cheers in Boston, where a group of locals in the city meet to drink, relax and socialize. At the center of the show was the bar's owner and head bartender, Sam Malone, who was a womanizing former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. The show's ensemble cast introduced in the Give Me a Ring Sometime, pilot episode were waitresses Diane Chambers and Carla Tortelli, second bartender Coach Ernie Pantusso, and regular customers Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin. Later main characters of the show also included Frasier Crane, Woody Boyd, Lilith Sternin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Long
Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Long portrayed Diane Chambers on the hit sitcom ''Cheers'' and received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She won two Golden Globe Awards for the role. Long reprised her role as Diane Chambers in three episodes of the spin-off ''Frasier'', for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination. In 2009, she began playing a recurring role as DeDe Pritchett on the ABC comedy series ''Modern Family''. Long has also starred in several films including '' Night Shift'' (1982), ''Irreconcilable Differences'' (1984), ''The Money Pit'' (1986), '' Outrageous Fortune'' (1987), '' Hello Again'' (1987), ''Troop Beverly Hills'' (1989), ''The Brady Bunch Movie'' (1995), ''A Very Brady Sequel'' (1996), and '' Dr. T & the Women'' (2000). Early life Shelley Long was born on August 23, 1949, in Indian Village, Fort Wayne, Indiana. She is the daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Anderson
Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018) was an American actor, comedian and magician. He is best known for his role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984–1992 television series '' Night Court''. He later starred in the sitcom ''Dave's World'' from 1993 to 1997. In addition to eight appearances on ''Saturday Night Live'' between 1981 and 1985, Anderson had a recurring guest role as con man Harry "The Hat" Gittes on ''Cheers''. He toured extensively as a magician, and did several magic/comedy shows for broadcast, including ''Harry Anderson's Sideshow'' (1987). He played Richie Tozier in the 1990 miniseries '' It'', based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. Early life Anderson was born October 14, 1952, in Newport, Rhode Island. He spent much of his youth performing magic on the streets of Chicago, New York, St. Louis and New Orleans before landing in California at the age of 16. After moving to Los Angeles, he joined the Dante Magic Club and wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Babson
Thomas William Babson (born July 15, 1945) is an American ice hockey coach and actor. Early life Tom Babson graduated from Gloucester High School (Massachusetts), Gloucester High School, where he was the captain of the ice hockey team in 1963. After graduating, he played one season at the Northwood School (Lake Placid, New York), Northwood School. He played college hockey at St. Lawrence University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts. Babson earned a bachelor's degree in theatre from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Smith College. Acting Since the mid-1970s, Babson has been a "writer, teacher, actor and director of theatre, film and television". One of his first jobs in Hollywood was helping Paul Newman learn to play hockey for the film ''Slap Shot (film), Slap Shot''. Also, since the early 1980s, he has made appearances in more than 250 films and television series, such as portraying a recurring character To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Ryan (American Actor)
Lee Ryan (born 17 June 1983) is an English singer, songwriter and voice actor. He is best known as a member of the boy band Blue. Early life Lee Ryan was born in Chatham, Kent. His parents split up when he was six years old. Ryan mostly lived with his mother, sister Gemma and his grandmother. Ryan went to Bedonwell School before attending performing arts schools, including Welling School and the Independent Performing Arts School Belcanto London Academy (BLA), where he first developed his talent, then independent fee-paying theatre schools Sylvia Young Theatre School and Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Career 2000–2005: Career with Blue Ryan is a member of boy band Blue along with Simon Webbe, Duncan James and Antony Costa. The group has sold over 14 million records worldwide. In August 2005, Blue split up to pursue solo careers under the advice of Sir Elton John. Blue reformed on 28 April 2009. Ryan has had three number one hits while with Blue. He had previously co- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Tigar
Kenneth Tigar (born September 24, 1942) is an American actor, primarily on American television, and translator. Life Kenneth Leslie Tigar was born into a Jewish family in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and raised in the Greater Boston Area. He received his BA and Ph.D. in German literature from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, he was active in theater as both an actor and a director. He spent a year at the University of Göttingen and performed in Vienna and other European cities. Career He has appeared in numerous television shows, including starring as the short-tempered Captain Jensen in '' L.A. Heat'' from 1997 to 1999, appearing in a total of 47 episodes. He guest-starred in two episodes of '' Cheers'', playing different characters – "The Boys in the Bar" in Season 1 as a gay character called Fred, and later in Season 4's " Don Juan Is Hell", as a professor of Diane's. Tigar's film roles include playing a bomb squad leader in ''Lethal Weapon 2'' (1989) and ''Lethal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kearns (actor)
Michael Kearns (born January 8, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actor, writer, director, teacher, producer, and activist. He is noted for being one of the first openly gay actors, and after an announcement on '' Entertainment Tonight'' in 1991, the first openly HIV-positive actor in Hollywood. Early life and education Kearns was born in St. Louis, Missouri. As a young man, he attended the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated in 1972 and moved to Los Angeles. For more than 25 years he has been active in the Los Angeles art and political communities, maintaining a mainstream film and television career with a prolific career in the theatre. His activism is deeply integrated into his theatre works, and he has received grants from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the Brody Foundation, and PEN Center USA West. In 1984, along with playwright James Carroll Pickett, he co-founded Artists Confronting Aids (ACA), and is a current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Furey
John Furey (born April 13, 1951) is an American actor who has starred in film and on television. His film credits include ''Friday the 13th Part 2'' (1981), '' Black Thunder'' (1998) and '' Land of the Free'' (1998). Outside of film, Furey has starred on several television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' (2001–05) Career In 1976, Furey made his acting debut on the television series '' The Blue Knight''. The following year, he had guest roles in the television series ''Eight Is Enough'' and '' Rafferty'', and starred in the television film ''Just a Little Inconvenience''. In 1978, Furey had guest starred on ''Emergency!'', ''Logan's Run'', and ''CHiPs''. In 1980, Furey portrayed Chuck in ''Island Claws'' and guest starred as Stewart in ''The Waltons''. In 1981, Furey portrayed Paul Holt in ''Friday the 13th Part 2''. In 1983, Furey guest starred on ''Cheers'' and ''Hotel''. The following year, Furey guest starred on ''Remington Steele''. In 1985, Furey portrayed Stewart on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extra (acting)
A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera, or ballet production who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene). War films and epic films often employ background actors in large numbers: some films have featured hundreds or even thousands of paid background actors as cast members (hence the term "cast of thousands"). Likewise, grand opera can involve many background actors appearing in spectacular productions. On a film or TV set, background actors are usually referred to as "junior artists", "atmosphere", "background talent", "background performers", "background artists", "background cast members", or simply "background", while the term "extra" is rarely used. In a stage production, background actors are commonly referred to as " supernumeraries". In opera and ballet, they are called either "extras" or "supers". Casting Casting criteria fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheers (season 1)
The first season of the American television sitcom series ''Cheers'' premiered on September 30, 1982, and concluded on March 31, 1983. It consisted of 22 episodes, each running approximately 25 minutes at length. The show was created and produced by director James Burrows and writers Glen and Les Charles, who previously worked on ''Taxi'', another sitcom. ''Cheers'' was produced by Charles Burrows Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television. The concept and production design of the show were inspired by a public house in Boston, the Bull & Finch, which is now called Cheers Beacon Hill. When it was first broadcast, critics praised the series as intelligent, sophisticated, cleverly written, well-cast, and well-timed. However, the Nielsen ratings for its original runs were very low. Typically, low ratings result in a show's cancellation, but before the season finale aired, the network renewed it for another season. Reruns of season 1 scored higher ratings than its f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Call (bar Term)
In a bar, a last call (last orders) is an announcement made shortly before the bar closes for the night, informing patrons of their last chance to buy alcoholic beverages. There are various means to make the signal, like ringing a bell, flashing the lights, or announcing verbally. Last call times are often legally mandated and vary widely globally as well as locally. Legislation's purposes include reducing late night noise in the neighborhood, traffic crashes, violence, and alcohol related health problems. Australia In New South Wales, there is no specified closing time, but in residential areas, bars are often required to close at midnight. In non-residential areas, some bars are open 24 hours. A six-hour daily closure period applies to new licenses (and extended hours authorizations) granted from 30 October 2008, which is nominated depending on individual and community circumstances. During a significant part of the early 20th century, bars in Australia and New Zealand w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterosexism
Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of female–male sexuality and relationships. According to Elizabeth Cramer, it can include the belief that all people are or should be heterosexual and that heterosexual relationships are the only norm and therefore superior. Although heterosexism is defined in the online editions of the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' and the ''Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary'' as anti-gay discrimination or prejudice "by heterosexual people" and "by heterosexuals", respectively, people of any sexual orientation can hold such attitudes and bias, and can form a part of internalised hatred of one's sexual orientation. Heterosexism as discrimination ranks gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and other sexual minorities as second-class citizens with regard to various legal and civil rights, economic opportunities, and social equality in many of the world's jurisdictions and societies. It is often rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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