内容摘要：A young Palestinian waits to collect donated food at a food distribution kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A young Palestinian waits to collect donated food at a food distribution kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Wendt’s family said he died early Tuesday morning, peacefully in his sleep while at home, according to the publicity firm The Agency Group.Rhea Perlman, from left, Kelsey Grammar, Ted Danson, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt present the award for outstanding writing for a comedy series during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

Rhea Perlman, from left, Kelsey Grammar, Ted Danson, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt present the award for outstanding writing for a comedy series during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)“George was a doting family man, a well-loved friend and confidant to all of those lucky enough to have known him,” the family said in a statement. “He will be missed forever.” The family has requested privacy during this time.Despite a long career of roles onstage and on TV, it was as gentle and henpecked Norm Peterson on “Cheers” that he was most associated, earning six straight Emmy Award nominations for best supporting actor in a comedy series from 1984-89.

FILE -Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs, center, poses, March 2, 1988, with the cast of “Cheers” during rehearsal for an episode in which he appears. Cast members include, John Ratzenberger, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley and Ted Danson. (AP Photo/Ira Mark Gostin, File)FILE -Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs, center, poses, March 2, 1988, with the cast of “Cheers” during rehearsal for an episode in which he appears. Cast members include, John Ratzenberger, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley and Ted Danson. (AP Photo/Ira Mark Gostin, File)

The series was centered on lovable losers in a Boston bar and starred

Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman,“My platform is career focused,” says Gary Edwin Robinson. “So, as I am working with my students, it’s always, ‘How is theater going to help develop you in whatever area you’re going into?’”

Robinson, head of the Theatre Arts Program at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, will receive the 2025 Excellence in Theatre Education Award on June 8 at the Tony Awards in New York City.“I love what I do, and I get up and I go to work every morning and I go to the theater. It’s a black box theater and the theater just happens to be in a school, but it’s theater to me. There’s no distinction,” he told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement.

Robinson teaches five drama classes a day, offering an average of 95-100 students a three-year sequence of 45-minute parts. “My thing is ‘Go explore and find yourself in this thing called theater,’” he says.Year one is teaching the foundations of theater arts and performing. “I encourage my students every time they come to class to step out the box, explore, try something new today.”