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Last call for Cheers after 11 good years
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — It's closing time, folks. After 11 years, NBC's hit barroom comedy "Cheers" is going off the air.
The series, the longest-running comedy currently on television, will stop production at the end of this year, it was announced Monday. The final episode will air sometime in May.
"We are grateful to our loyal viewers over the years, but we feel it's better to end the series too early rather than too late," the show's creators and executive producers, Glen and Les Charles and James Burrows, said in a statement.
"Cheers" has won 26 Emmys and was the most-nominated series ever with 111, according to Paramount Pictures' Television Group.
The final episode will be the series' 271st show. The executive producers said they have not decided what form it will take.
it premiered Sept. 30, 1982, starring Ted Danson as Sam Malone, a former baseball player turned tavern owner. Shelley Long, as snooty barmaid Diane Chambers, provided the foil for Sam's smu chauvinism.
characters that might be found in any local bar, but funnier. They included faithful customers Norm and Cliff, tough barnmaid Carla and, beginning in 1984, neurotic psychologist Frasier Crane.
There were changes over the years, with Long leaving and Kirstie Alley合班 aboard to continue the banter and flirtation with Sam. Wooy Harrelson stepped in as the naive bartender Woody in 1985 after the death of actor Nicholas Colasanto, who played Coach.
Revolving around the pair were the grab bag
But the setting itself remained unchanged, and some consider that the chief reason for the show's success.
"It's a bar. It's the favorite bar that you've got, everybody's got," Preston Beckman, vice president for nBC at NBC, said recently.
The writing and acting were first-rate, he said, but to the credit of the people who created it, they created a venue that could go on and on.
The decision to end the show was made in consultation with its creators and Danson, the show's production company said.
The series will continue to be seen in syndication.
Letterman may leave NBC
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The colorful fight for David Letterman's favor is now a black-and-white affair, with CBS emerging as NBC's sole rival to carry the talk show host's weeknight
During months of speculation, ABC, Fox and major independent producers had been mentioned as contenders to lure Letterman from NBC, where his popular "Late Night" has been a fixture for 10 years.
"We have entered the formal negotiating period with Letterman as a result of his representatives coming back to NBC with what they feel is the best of his alternative options," NBC representative Betty Hudson said yesterday.
NBC has about four weeks to make a counteroffer. Hudson would not comment further on the negotiations.
Sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said CBS was that alternative.
Published reports had CBS offering Letterman at least $14 million a year, double what he makes at NBC, and promising him the time slot opposite "The Tonight Show," which precedes his show on NBC.
Under Letterman's contract,
The New York Times reported that the CBSE deal would give Letterman ownership of the show and let him produce a second late-night show showing his own.
Snaring Letterman would elevate CBS from its current low rated late-night crime dramas. Previous forays by the network into the talk show arena, most recently with game show Pat Sajak three seasons ago, failed to stand up to Johnny Carson.
would a representative of the Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency, who represents Letterman.
Letteman became unhappy with NBC after he lost out to Jay Leno to succeed Carson as host of "Tonight" last spring. Last month, the network agreed to allow Letteman to negotiate with others in exchange for extending his commitment to stay on from April to late June.
A CBS representative would not comment on the offer, nor
It was unlikely that NBC would match CBS' offer if it kept "Late Night" at 11:30 p.m., because less advertising revenue is available at that hour than when "Tonight" airs.
But according to yesterday's USA Today, one option being weighed by NBC is to give Leterman the 11:30 p.m. time slot he covets and move Leno back an hour.
Film offers realistic look at area gangs
By Delin Cormeny
Kansan staff writer
As gang specialist Pete Adams spoke on the phone from the McCune School for Boys in Kansas City, his eyes were fixed on the three young boys on the other side of the Plexiglass window.
"I can see A,' who is a 15-year-old kid whose dream is to be the biggest drug dealer in the world," Adams said. "He's shot people and been shot at, he's been beaten up by the cops and investigated for murder, and he sits in the day room now, laughing and joking like he's at summer camp."
He said "B" was a 14-year-old who, standing 6-foot-1 and built like a grown man, could barely read and write. Before landing in the McCune school, he had carried and used a gun, taken drugs and been shot at.
"C," just 14 years old, saw his crack-addicted mother prostitute herself. His father was killed selling crack, and he has no idea where his brothers and sisters are, Adams said.
"These kids, they don't think like you and me," Adams said. "If the general public knew what went on behind the walls of juvenile detention, if they knew what these kids have been through, they would be astonished. They would be shocked. It's a whole new world."
In an effort to show what does go on, Adams, with the help of three KU student actors, filmed a 30-minute movie called "Sweetwater in June." It premiered last weekend at the Fambrough school in Kansas City, Mo., and stars Jerel Taylor, Lawrence sophomore. Mark Carter, Kansas City junior, and William White, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, are also featured.
It's important to expose it to the general public so they can understand why these kids commit the violent crimes," Adams said. "They are a product of their environment. This is a film that everyone needs to see."
Adams said it was available for purchase now, but he also hoped to sell it to school districts and to get it into the hands of students.
Carter played the role of a gang member in the film. "It's one thing to hear about the gang violence on the news, but it's another thing to hear about how these kids feel about their parents and their lives," he said.
He said the story followed gang members from a shoot-out at a crack house in Anywhere, U.S.A., to a detention center, where they talked about how and why they ended up in trouble.
"It's scary," Carter said. "These people who are in gangs or have a gang mentality have no concept of tomorrow. It's hard to reason with someone who doesn't care about anything and who has no concept of right or wrong. When you feel like you could die tomorrow, nothing matters."
He said he and the other actors planned to go to the McCune School and to meet some of the kids whose lives formed the basis of the movie.
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