Rob Long

Recently, I had a conversation with a rabbi who runs a synagogue in Southern California . The language and idiom of show business permeates that

Here’s what I do when someone complains about my pursed-lips-dimples-showing attempt at a smile: I open my mouth and pretend to be laughing.

‘Do You Have a Moment for the Truth?' From the forthcoming HBO documentary series The Tragedy of the Compound: How the Most Trusted Journalists in America Followed Scott Pelley into the Jungle

Wherever I am, I find a barber and get a trim, whether I need it or not.

On the 'Cheers' co-creator's gift for wringing out the funny – and the six words that stuck with me all these years later

I was in Paris last week for a party to celebrate the wedding anniversary of old friends. I know that's a polarizing sentence to read.

On my third day in show business, I went to Stage 25 on the Paramount Studios lot to get a cup of coffee and a doughnut. It was January 1990, and I had just been hired as a staff writer on the long-running hit comedy Cheers , and so far I had made two important career discoveries.

“Your problem,” a friend of mine said to me recently, “is that you have no imagination.”

A heavenly letter of welcome.

Something happens to me when I travel . I become a magpie. At home, I'm fine.