Kelsey Grammer picked up more than beer nuts during nine years of bellying up to the bar at Cheers - he gathered pointers on how to run his own show.

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Grammer, the star of NBC's "Frasier," says Ted Danson taught him the importance of having fun in a TV ensemble."Ted was certainly very good at it," Grammer says in the latest Entertainment Weekly magazine. "He wanted to have fun with it. He was a wonderful example, which I followed fairly well - and added a dash extra. I'm a little bit more vocal, a little more with my fingers in all the pots."

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