For 11 years, fans watched George Wendt saunter onto the screen and into Cheers bar as his friends and its patrons shouted out “Norm!” to which he always responded with a sarcastic one-liner that had ...

One word can have such an impact. “Cheers” star George Wendt, who died May 20 at the age of 76, left behind a legacy in the annals of TV comedy that is hard to equal, thanks to one word: Norm. Norm ...

I was never a fan of pleasantries because they seemed like a waste of time. Something that two people said to each other before they could say real things to each other. As years go by, more and more ...

George Wendt as Norm Peterson on the set of ‘Cheers.’ (Paul Drinkwater / NBCUniversal via Getty Images) Norm entrances were a pain to write — something about the simplicity of the form, perhaps — and ...