Where Everybody Knows Your Name the perfect theme song for their upcoming NBC sitcom, "Cheers". Upon learning that "People Like Us" was legally bound to the musical Preppies, the Charles Brothers asked Portnoy and Hart Angelo to take a shot at composing a theme specifically for "Cheers". The song that resulted, "My Kind of People", was somewhat of a reworked version of "People Like Us". It was subsequently rejected. Portnoy and Hart Angelo then wrote and submitted two more potential themes for "Cheers". One of them, entitled "Another Day", contained a lyric line "There are times when it's fun to take the long way home"
Ethel Portnoy Kousbroek (1929–2010) in 1951. She raised two children and until 1962 she worked at the UNESCO. She worked for Dutch papers and was published in "Randstad", in the weeklies "Haagse Post" and "Vrij Nederland" and also in the "NRC Handelsblad". The family moved to The Hague in 1970. In the late 1970s Portnoy was one of the editors of the feminist literary journal "Chrysallis". Since 1979, she worked at the journal "Maatstaf". Portnoy debuted as a novelist in 1971 at the age of 44 with the book "Steen en Been". She wrote in English, but considered herself a Dutch writer.