Drinks are on the house this week in honor of Phil.
Veteran character actor Pat Corley, probably best known for playing Phil the barkeep on "Murphy Brown, died Monday of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 76.
According to his son Jerry, Corley had undergone surgery to insert stents into his coronary artery (they keep the artery open and the blood flowing).
Corley's regular role as the proprietor of Phil's--the pre-Central Perk watering hole where the "FYI" newsmagazine team played by Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Charles Kimbrough and Joe Regalbuto gathered to socialize--lasted from 1988 until 1996.
