Cheers decadent old-money WASPs," but, to meet producers' demands, they rewrote the lyrics to be about "likeable losers" in a Boston bar. The show's producers rejected this song, as well. After they read the script of the series pilot, they created another song "Another Day". When Portnoy and Hart Angelo heard that NBC had commissioned thirteen episodes, they created an official theme song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" and rewrote the lyrics. On syndicated airings of "Cheers", the theme song was shortened to make room for commercials. "Cheers" was critically acclaimed in its first season, though it landed a disappointing 74th
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.