Toasting Cheers: An Episode Guide, 1982‐1993

In 1994 Oliver Stone shocked film audiences by casting in the role of a man who goes on a “killing spree” the actor Woody Harrelson, who had become famous as a loveable “hick” bartender in Cheers. Stone seems to have been very keen to get Harrelson for Natural Born Killers because he was aware of the actor’s “troubled youth”, and the fact that his father is currently serving a double life sentence after being found guilty of the hired assassination of a federal judge in 1979. When he met Harrelson, Stone “immediately noticed the rage within the actor”. This...