Opinion: Cheers to a life well lived

Actor George Wendt holds a glass of beer in a barroom in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 13, 1983.

Character actor George Wendt was known to a generation as Norm, the beleaguered, lovable everyman on the sit-com "Cheers." He died this week at the age of 76.

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