European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To Ted Danson Abc Star is cheering his career by Bob Thomas associated press Ted Danson leaped from a second Story window a to the cab of a pickup fell on the clambered into the truck then fell to the pavement As the truck sped except that it want Ted a stuntman double performed the trick while Danson stood by and agonized with every the scene was being staged at a Hilltop mansion for a new a Fine and no Way was director Blake Edwards going to risk his the affable a Jock barkeeper of Abc tvs is using his of season to capitalize on his television he and Howie Mandel of elsewhere Are starring As an updated Laurel and Hardy in a Fine inspired by the piano delivery the toy with Only a weekend Danson then joins Mary Tyler Sam Waterston and Christine Lahti in something in in like a hungry kid in a Candy said the athletic 37yearold Danson during a break in the i Hope it Hast come too sometimes i wonder if in on the downward i feel like a pair of jeans that have finally achieved the right kind of texture except that holes Are beginning to appear in the he was his concern want simply because of the flood of actors in their teens and 20s who have risen to prominence in youth oriented his feelings of mortality were heightened by the death last february of Nick the endearingly dense coach of he suffered a fatal attack after returning from Hospital treatment for a heart Nicks death was not a but it was still a said he was the first person close to me that i have lost and when you spend eight hours a Day rehearsing with you do become i still cant believe Hes Edwards ordered the stunt performed and Danson again agonized As his alter ego took the fall for this time the director was and the a Fine mess company tramped Down the Hill to the commissary Dansons lunch was brought to his Ted Danson seems a throwback to the traditional kind of Hollywood Star Loyal he still has the same agent he started out Ted Danson is using the summer break from cheers to make born in san he lived in Tucson and finally where his archaeologist father headed a that was a great place to grow the actor Beautiful mountains to deep horses to we didst have any so i spent my weekends at the at prep school in Danson and his Best Friend excelled in but when we went to we were both Cut from the team at the first he theres a difference Between prep school basketball and i went from a Graceful Forward to a Clumsy intrigued with Danson transferred to the Carnegie Institute of technology in Pittsburgh now Carnegie Mellon which has a distinguished theater in new his first important Job was As an then acting off Roadway in Tom Stoppard the real inspector which portended Dansons aptitude for i fell in love with acting while i was in but i was kind of a slow he i was 28 before i really committed myself to making it a in he and his Casey moved to los his first break came in the onion and to and movie roles notably body heat As the Small town he was playing a theatrical possibly in taxi when he was interviewed for the role of Sam Malone in i like to think that i was the holy Choice for and Ive managed to convince myself of he but of course Shelley Long tested with a lot of just As i tested with a lot of what apparently sold the producers on both of us was the Way we bounced off each after a Rocky Start the show once hit Rock Bottom in the ratings cheers achieved Success and is assured of two More seasons to round out five i love the but i think five years will be enough for especially the Danson june stripes Magazine 77