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From: tonti@ptsfc.UUCP (Guy Tonti)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: "King Lear" - Cliff Claven?
Message-ID: <500@ptsfc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 11:02:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 11:02:24 1986
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Summary: Cliff Claven in "The Bitch"

In article <130@pedsgo.UUCP>, evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes:
> Organization : Concurrent Computer Corp. (a P-E subsidiary), Tinton Falls, NJ
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> In article <981@ccice5.UUCP> rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) writes:
> >I watched the PBS broadcast 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 can't speak for that, but when Superman II was on last Sunday, I spotted
> Cliff, with a beard, playing a very blase Mission Control attendant for
> NASA, just before the Kryptonians showed up on the moon.
> 
Let's also not forgot Cliff's (John Ratzenberger for the uninformed) fine
portrayal as a diamond smuggler (my memory is weak so it may have been as
a drug dealer) in that movie of movies, "THE BITCH."  (Why Joan Collins
was not nominated for an Oscar should be taken up with the Academy).