George Wendt Hospitalized With Chest Pains

'Norm' has to pull out of 'Odd Couple' production
Posted Oct 30, 2012 5:14 PM CDT
George Wendt Hospitalized With Chest Pains
Actor George Wendt poses for a portrait in 2009.   (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

George Wendt—better known to most as Norm! from Cheers—is hospitalized with chest pains, reports the Chicago Tribune. The 64-year-old actor is expected to make a full recovery, says an official with the Northlight Theatre in Skokie. Wendt was set to begin appearing in a stage production of the Odd Couple this week at the theater, but he had to leave the cast. (More George Wendt stories.)

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