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...four years since Cheers went off the air. She earned an Emmy for her dramatic work in 1994's TV movie David's Mother. On Oct. 5 she does a comedy turn in Toothless--a fantasy made for ABC's newly revived Wonderful World of Disney--playing a workaholic dentist turned tooth fairy. And at Christmastime, she will co-star in movies with two famous and funny Allens: Woody in Deconstructing Harry and Tim in For Richer or Poorer. The normally reticent Woody Allen, who had never seen Alley until he chanced upon an old Cheers rerun while surfing...
...prisons? In Rising Sun, Ind., they ask if it is worth inviting in the riverboat casino, with all the cars and all-night grocery stores and Gamblers Anonymous meetings that come with it, if that means people will no longer have to drive two towns over to see a dentist. In Hutchinson, Kans., they wonder whether the job security that comes with two new prisons is worth it when the relocated relatives of inmates are wearing gang colors to school...
...Earle Avenue in Lynbrook, New York, his mother kept an ax under the bed to even the odds against the murderers she imagined. His father, a sardonically unhappy bisexual, was much given to long absences; his younger brother became an alcoholic suicide. Young Vivian Chambers never went to a dentist, and by the time he grew up and began calling himself by his mother's family name of Whittaker, his teeth had gone to memorable ruin. In his mouth, as in his early life's story, he came to believe that he harbored a tiny, secret civilization in a state...
...Just last weekend, I called and wanted an appointment with a doctor, dentist and optometrist," Sadigh said. "The earliest they could offer me, besides spring break, was in April. I ended up getting an earlier appointment by seeing a nurse practitioner...
...with broken jaws, cracked teeth or few teeth at all--but Dr. Shoemaker gives them a reason to smile. Since 1983, he has helped reconstruct the faces, and indirectly the lives, of battered women at the Crisis Center, a local shelter. "Unfortunately, there are not always happy endings," the dentist cautions. "But at least to help them get out in public is important...