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Cheers: Where Everybody Knows You’re Name!

Cheers: Where Everybody Knows You’re Name!

If you’ve ever watched a TV show that you loved, odds are you wanted nothing more than to jump into the TV set and live amongst the fictional denizens of your favorite show.  Or, if you have a more firm grip on reality and less childlike-whimsy, you could just go to Hollywood and visit some soundstage that seems to suck the magic out of your imagination.  There...

Billy Goat Tavern: Cheezeborger, Cheezeborger, Cheezeborger!

Billy Goat Tavern: Cheezeborger, Cheezeborger, Cheezeborger!

Way back in the 1970’s, inside Studio 8H at 30 Rockerfeller Center in New York City, a larger than life comedian named John Belushi uttered one bizzare, yet memorable catchphrase: “Cheezeborger, Cheezeborger, Cheezeborger!  No Pepsi, Coke!  No Fries, Chips!” That was the greasy spoon Greek, Pete Dionasopolis uttering one of the most memorable...