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...their bits for Dynasty. Tip O'Neill appeared on Cheers three years ago, and now so has Gary Hart. When the producers of the popular Boston barroom series were casting a three-part season-closing episode involving politicians, they invited the Colorado Democrat to do an eight-line walk-on as himself. The cameo, which will air in May, calls for Hart to enter the bar just after Diane (Shelley Long) has finished chastising Sam (Ted Danson) for dropping politicians' names. The Senator, having met Sam the night before, shows up to return his coat and is gone 90 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 7, 1986 | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...frontcourt, Fred Schernecker (six-and-a-half points per game) and walk-on David Lang (4.0 per game) have shone, while David Wolkoff has seen more and more time...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Looking To Improve On a 19-89 Record | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

...years at Harvard, McGinty is the only walk-on to cut it. He deserves a lot more credit than he has gotten," Lee said...

Author: By C.j. Georges, | Title: Five of Eight Crimson Grapplers Place, But Harvard Finishes Ninth at Tourney | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

...single-minded writer, Strindberg's interests were strangely diverse. In addition to being the most prolific of authors--throwing his pages to the floor as fast as they flowed from his pen--he was a painter of considerable skill. Before he came to the theater, by way of walk-on parts at the Royal Theater of Stockholm, he studied medicine. Dabbling in alchemy, he attempted to produce gold by mixing copper and iron sulfate. Languages enchanted him. He applied himself to Chinese and Japanese, and although he remained violently anti-Semitic, he decided in middle age to learn Hebrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obsession Strindberg: a Biographyby Michael Meyer | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...soon left the paper because of its pro-German sympathies and immersed herself in the intellectual and artistic life that flourished around the Cafe de Flore on Paris' Left Bank. Those contacts led to her first walk-on movie parts and, in 1946, to a starring role in Jacques Feyder's Macadam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adieu, Ma Belle: Simone Signoret: 1921-1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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