Appreciation: How 'Cheers' stars Kirstie Alley and Ted Danson made one of TV's most iconic pairings
during and just after the run of “Cheers,” but I can only assume that she’s great in them, because I never saw her otherwise, even in shows and parts that were less deserving of her presence, less supportive of her talent. “Cheers” is one of the best written comedies in television history, however, and the combination of actor and role created the part for which she is rightly best remembered.
But there’s something especially interesting about his relationship with Rebecca. There’s no romance between them. His interest in her is entirely sexual — or psychosexual, driven by her lack of reciprocation — which leads ultimately to a complicated, often affecting, half-platonic friendship that had, and has, no parallel in television.
If thwarted ambition, physical comedy and the ability to cry funny put Alley in a line descended from Lucille Ball, she also had something of the strength and vulnerability, the rough-hewn intelligence and emotional appeal, of the great women of screwball comedy — Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck.
Subsequent series did not bother to domesticate her. In the very good “Veronica’s Closet,” created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane of “Friends” fame, which ran from 1997 to 2000, she played the entrepreneurial success of Rebecca Howe’s dreams, the head of a lingerie company. In the less good, short-lived “Kirstie,” she starred as a Broadway star reunited uneasily with the unglamorous child she gave up for adoption decades earlier.
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