European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Grammer gets cheers for 7 his hit frasier by Rick do brow los Angeles times Kelsey Grammer is sitting at a smal con Ference table in a modest upstairs office of stage 25 at Paramount studios where he blossomed for the last decade As the pompous insecure psychiatrist or. Fra sier Crane on cheers. He insisted on using the old cheers set for his cur rent Abc comedy frasier in which the character has left Boston and a broken marriage to return to his Hometown of Seattle As a radio psychiatrist. The vibes certainly Are right. This spinoff of cheers is a hit and finally on an to. It opened aug. 16 and airs 8 10 . Get tuesdays nearly a year after it premiered on stateside to i do think there s got to be some kind of ghost thing a support system Here Grammer says Ges Turing with his hand at the surroundings. The Energy around this stage is Grammer is wearing red sneakers jeans and an open collared shirt with As he Points out a surfing pattern More in tune with himself than the Stuffy vivid character that has led him to Fame. There Are other surprises. He looks and acts much younger in person than on screen he is 38. I was 28 when i got the Job Grammer says of cheers and of course frasier has been 35 for 10 years. People assumed i was a lot older than i part of the reason is his voice which resonates deep and Rich in conversation and laughter sound ing like that of Orson Welles As he zips through his answers and opinions. Grammer is a classically trained actor who revels in the stage he has per formed with the old Globe theatre in san Diego and regional theater in Buffalo n.y., and Minneapolis has appeared both on and off Broadway and starred in Richard in 1992 at the Mark taper forum in los Angeles. The stage he says is my first love it is i think what establishes you As an and the Welles touches Are important to Grammer the reason i started my production company the original project i still wish to do is an Orson Welles thing. We re thinking of starting it As a one Man show on the stage a sort of retrospective of his younger years. He s always fascinated me. When i first got on cheers Ted Danson said to me after about two months you ought to do Orson Welles " perhaps this wide Range of acting inclinations has enabled Grammer to survive in sitcom land and in life. First cheers and now Fras Verhave been a kind of comedy counterpoint to personal tragedies other dramas and self admitted irresponsible be Havior that have marked his Well documented child Cable to give local crowd Access by Chuck Vinch staff writer the medium that turned a pair of Geek suburban teens named Wayne and Garth into cult heroes is coming soon to a Mili tary Community near you and the euro Pean come May never be the same. It s local Access Cable television which in the United states has turned an Eclectic variety of loud Kelsey Grammer stars on frasier which opened last fall on Abc and recently reached an to. Abc Hood and Rise to the top. Grammer s father was murdered when he was 13. His 18-year-old sister was murdered when he was 20, his two half Brothers were killed in a shark attack when he was 25. He has had two marital breakups plus arrests involving drug and alcohol use that brought him jail sentences. These experiences would seem to have prepared him for King Lear rather than another to series. Yet with disarming and surprising openness Gram Mer discusses All of this candidly and bluntly rather than ducking behind the common celebrity stance that it is his private business and no one else s. Yeah Well at one Point i thought there s nothing to really hide about anything because everybody s going to write about it anyway he says. My View Point is if it comes from my Mouth that will get peo ple to Stop talking about Grammer who was born on St. Thomas one of the . Virgin islands and was brought up in new Jersey and Florida lived primarily with his Mother her parents and his sister. He adored his Grandfather Gordon who died when he was 12 from that Point on All i dealt with was my Mother and my sister and my grandmother three different generations of women who pretty much relied on me to play son father husband child All at the same time. So that was a Little confusing growing up As an adolescent considering the turbulence that has marked Grammer s personal life Little if any of it has car Ned Over to the production of frasier according to several of his co stars. John Mahoney featured As Grammer s retired cop father who with his now famous dog Eddie moves in with him says he s never late. I be never Ever seen him lose his temper. He s very open about the whole thing. There s not shred of tension. David Hyde Pierce who portrays Grammer s equally pompous psychiatrist brother says what frr.1" ? h0mg a in his personal me it has never affected he Quality of his work. He s unfailingly Good hearted and Good spirited on the show. His concern to King on � 1swuh the script and what we re Mouths eccentrics and Plain old flakes into Media personalities sort of. While the version of local Access Cable envisioned for the systems being installed in . Military hous ing in Europe will not in All probability be allowed to devolve to the level of its stateside counterparts the Basic premise remains the same. I want to make celebrities out 6f Ordinary peo ple said Charles Kaufman Cable to project Man Ager for or communications in Leionen Ger Many. I want to put people on the air so that when they walk into their local commissary other people will say hey that s the Guy on to " the local Access venture is the result of an agreement Between or communications which publishes or and overseas magazines and tvs the Kaiser Puteni Germany company that is in. C m thu Mytar housing areas in that "10"8 u channels offered in the tic aTT3" forces network mtg can Ted Turner s int network Abc ave Travis Ion movie Channel is also available for an extra fee. C sjuust8etti"8 off the ground. Communications has taken on the task of com no up with material to fill the dead times movies on the Spectra vision Channel As Well develop. Home grown programming for the Loc Access on the. Commercial Side Kaufman is working wit various syndicator and distributors to ook for programs that Aren t shown on an. He Vas an preached such stateside Cable outfits As comedy pages sunday August 20, 1994 a
