Rebecca Howe

REBECCA HOWE

Entering "Cheers" as the manager assigned by the bar's new corporate owner, Rebecca Howe is eager to please her bosses and move up the corporate ladder. She is initially presented as a tough, no-nonsense corporate type, but her facade soon drops, revealing her neurotic and clumsy tendencies. Over the course of the series, Rebecca becomes close friends with the "Cheers" gang. In the episode "Paint Your Office," Rebecca reveals to Sam that she was born in San Diego and is one of the four siblings of a Navy officer. In the "Last Angry Mailman," we learn that she went to the University of Connecticut where she was viewed as a party girl. She has a sister Susan, a movie actress. When Susan comes to visit, Sam tries playing each of the women against the other, for his own advantage—until Rebecca and Susan compare notes. Rebecca and Susan stage a confrontation in the bar's office, in which Rebecca takes a pistol and shoots her sister six times, sending Sam into a state of shock. He gets his comeuppance when the "deceased" Susan, whom he has dragged out into the main bar area, says "I'm dead!" and Carla, Woody, Frasier, Lilith, Cliff, and Norm stand up inside the bar area to witness Sam's humiliation. In the beginning of season 7, Rebecca is fired from the Lillian Corporation and Sam is promoted to manager. He allows Rebecca to stay on as a waitress, with a considerable pay cut. Sam is unable to effectively run the bar, and Rebecca becomes manager again. Arguably, Rebecca's most prominent story line was throughout seasons 8 & 9, where she dated multi-millionaire Robin Colcord. Robin was often condescending and rude to the rest of the "Cheers" gang, making him disliked. He even cheated on Rebecca with other women, stating not being able to decide on which one to settle with, but Rebecca stayed loyal because Robin stated she was "in the lead." At the end of season 8, Rebecca, Sam, and Norm discover that Robin had been dating Rebecca to gain insider information on the Lillian Corporation. After Sam turns Robin in to the police (for Rebecca's safety), he is given his bar back by the Lillian corporation in return for saving the company. When Rebecca discovers this she confronts Sam in his office, and after a heated argument the two make love for the first time. Robin enters the room after they've had sex and Rebbecca lies to him assuring him that nothing happened. Robin later pleads guilty for his charges, losing all his money, and goes to prison. In season 9, Rebecca is fired again by the corporation, while at the same time Sam buys the bar back. Shortly thereafter, Sam hires her to run the day-to-day operation of Cheers. Once Robin is released, he proposes matrimony and she accepts. However, on their wedding day, Rebecca calls off the wedding, telling Robin "I only loved you for your money!" After hearing this, Robin promptly pulls his hidden money belt from out of Sam's office full of six million dollars. Robin leaves Rebecca, as she wallows in despair. After her fiasco with Robin, Rebecca decides to buy back the bar for herself, after John Allen Hill, their upstairs neighbor, becomes the new owner of Melville's Fine Sea Food. Mr. Hill also becomes a rival of Sam Malone, and he obtains half of "Cheers," forcing Sam to pay rent in addition to using "Cheers" as the waiting lounge of Melville's. Rebecca receives an allowance from her father and helps Sam buy back half of "Cheers," resulting in their co-owning the bar. She also becomes the super of her apartment complex. Rebecca has many ideas on how to improve "Cheers," most of which end poorly. At the beginning of season 11, Rebecca causes an enormous fire, which results in Rebecca using her life savings to repair "Cheers." Rebecca constantly throws herself at the feet of rich men, first Evan Drake and then Robin Colcord, but she slept with Sam again when the two of them decided to conceive a child together. In the penultimate episode, Rebecca meets a plumber named Don Santry, whom she marries in the series finale.

KIRSTIE ALLEY

Kirsten Louise "Kirstie" Deal was born in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of Lillian Mickie (née Heaton), a homemaker, and Robert Deal, who owned a lumber company. In school, Alley became a cheerleader. She attended college at Kansas State University. After College, Kirstie married Bob Alley, (hence the name she is known by in Hollywood). After she divorced Bob, Alley was hit by more tragedy when a car accident, caused by a drunk driver, killed her mother and left her father seriously injured. Soon after, Alley married actor Parker Stevenson. However this marriage also ended in divorce. While playing Rebecca on the hit television sitcom "Cheers," Alley was nominated for three Emmy Awards. Her first two nominations for her work on the series did not earn her the award, but her third garnered her the statuette for "Outstanding Lead Actrees in a Comedy Series." Her most memorable movies may have been the "Look Who's Talking" trilogy, in which she co-starred with John Travolta. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Alley was the first "Cheers" regular cast member to receive a star on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame." Her Birthday is January 12th.