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From: krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz)
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Subject: Re: "King Lear" - Cliff Claven?
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 15:45:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 15:45:00 1986
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Hello out there.  Robert Zarcone writes:

> I watched the PBS broadcast [of King Lear] this past Friday and 
wondered if the
> General of the King's Knights was the actor who plays Cliff on
> "Cheers".  He looked just like him, with the addition of a beard.
> He also sounded like a non-Bostonian version of Cliff.  He didn't
> sound like he had an English accent, unlike just about everyone else
> in the production.  I had heard that he had done Shakespear before
> his current role.  Anyone know if this was him?

I, for one, haven't the faintest idea, but its a truly frightening
thought.  What will be next?  Diane as Juliet?  Carla doing Lady
MacBeth? :-)

(Name withheld at conscience's request)