‘Cheers’ star Rhea Perlman looks back at sitcom’s success, marriage to Danny DeVito: ‘The glory days’
foxnews.comRhea Perlman didn’t think twice about having one for the road. The actress played head waitress Carla in the hit sitcom "Cheers," which ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. "I remember we were all going, ‘Should we do another year?
It’s been 11 years,’" the 74-year-old recalled to People magazine on Thursday. "George [Wendt] says, ‘If someone gives you a present every year, you’re not going to take it the next year?
Why not?’ So we took it for as long as they gave it." The sitcom chronicled the lives of the staff and patrons of a fictional bar in Boston "where everybody knows your name." It starred Perlman and Wendt, as well as Ted Danson, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer, Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley and Shelley Long, among others.
The cast of "Cheers," circa 1983. (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images) Perlman credited the series for kicking off her career in Hollywood. "It was huge," she said. "And I wouldn’t have had the career that I – well, who knows what I’ would’ve had?
Read more on foxnews.com