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Kirstie Louise Alley (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991. From 1997 to 2000, she starred in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Alley appeared in various films, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Summer School (1987), Shoot to Kill (1988), Look Who's Talking (1989) and its two sequels (1990–1993), Madhouse (1990), Sibling Rivalry (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), It Takes Two (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), For Richer or Poorer (1997), and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). She won her second Emmy Award in 1994 for the television film David's Mother. In 1997, Alley received another Emmy nomination for her work in the crime drama series The Last Don. In 2005, she played a fictionalized version of herself on Showtime's Fat Actress. She later appeared on Kirstie Alley's Big Life (2010), and was a contestant on the 12th season of Dancing with the Stars (2011–2012), finishing in second place. In 2013, Alley returned to acting with the title role on the sitcom Kirstie. In 2016, she appeared on the Fox comedy horror series Scream Queens. In 2018, she was a contestant on the 22nd series of the British reality show Celebrity Big Brother, in which she finished as runner-up.
After his trucker parents were killed in an accident, Ulysses Solomon Archer was taken in by Poppa Wheelie and Wide Load Annie at the Short Stop Diner. Upon graduating college, U.S. decides to follow in his parents' footsteps as a trucker, but he is run off the road on his first haul by the mysterious Highwayman, leaving him severely injured. As part of the reconstructive surgery he undergoes, U.S. has part of his skull replaced by an experimental alloy which gives him the the ability to pick up certain radio frequencies. Vowing to track down the Highwayman, U.S. utilizes his engineering knowhow to upgrade and customize his truck into a high-tech rig loaded with weaponry and gadgets, including a remote control disguised as a silver dollar.
