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ANOTHER ROUND FOR CHEERS CASE

By BroadCasting & Cable Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/8/2000 8:00:00 PM

Maybe it's not OK to change the names at the bar where everybody knows your name. In one of its first orders of the new court session, the Supreme Court declined to review an appeals court decision that allowed former Cheers cast members George Wendt and John Ratzenberger to sue an airport hospitality company, Host International, over robots that bear the names Bob and Hank, but allegedly resemble their TV characters Norm and Cliff. Host, in court documents, denied the resemblance.

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