His character, Kenny Wells, is a capitalist dreamer, a prospector who hits bottom and takes a desperate gamble on a possible gold mine deep in the Indonesian jungle. For the role, McConaughey grew a beer-swollen paunch, capped his pearly whites with jagged falsies, and swept about 17 long hairs over a balding pate merging with a mass of greasy curls licking the top of his collar.
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Where are the stars of Cheers now? Thirty years ago ‘everybody knew …
Where are the stars of Cheers now? Thirty years ago ‘everybody knew their names’ and now MailOnline looks at whether they got better with age Throughout the 1980s Cheers dominated the airwaves in both the US and the UK as fans were desperate to see the crazy antics of a group of Boston barflies. Running for 11 seasons between 1982 and 1993, it followed the fortunes of former baseball pitcher Sam ‘Mayday’ Malone, whose career was ruined by alcoholism and who bought a bar – Cheers – as a reminder to stay sober.