What a delightfully dour performance Kirstie Alley gave as Rebecca Howe in Cheers. Last week I picked up season six on DVD for just a few quid. The further I get through it, the more I’m reminded of how utterly brilliant her performances were.
Cheers had a great ensemble cast from the beginning, though Carla (the superb Rhea Perlman, who I saw in Boeing Boeing a while back) was, for me, the one thing that lifted it above other sitcoms. Yet it’s the addition of Alley that really got me hooked on the programme when I was… oh, maybe a whole decade old.
Ah, old school sitcoms. Even before the titles roll, the bit at the beginning of each episode that proudly declares that “Cheers is filmed in front of a live studio audience” is a perfect setup for a 20-odd minute nostalgia trip.
This has been a brief gushing of fandom from yours truly.
By the way, the title of this post isn’t just me being rude for the sake of it. Here are a couple of clips from Alley’s latest TV series. It’s not quite Cheers. Not even Veronica’s Closet, in fact, but how I wish I could look half as sexy trying to squeeze into my jeans on a morning…
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