A TREAT, NOT A TREATMENT
"I always knew I'd come back to a series," says Shelley Long, 44, who doesn't regret leaving Cheers in 1987 for a film career that never took off. "It was right for me to leave. Sam and Diane were in a rut." Now her sitcom Good Advice has returned to the CBS schedule for 13 episodes, having been retooled since its debut last year. Long, who plays a marriage counselor, says she's happier sharing an office with Treat Williams. who plays a divorce lawyer, than she was sharing a bar with Ted Danson. "Ted is very introspective. He likes to work things out inside. Treat has the same approach I do. He'll bring questions and feelings to the table, and that pleases me no end." As for her reputation as a perfectionist, Long admits, "I do have to lighten up a little bit."

MILLER TIME BEGINS AT NOON
Winning the retro role of Margo Lane, Lamont Cranston's lady friend, in the movie version of the longtime radio show The Shadow which is due out July 1 with Alec Baldwin, was a fantasy come true for Penelope Aim Miller. "I love the women of the 1930s and 1940s—Myrna Loy, Jean Arthur, Barbara Stanwyck," says Miller, 30. "They were sophisticated and witty and glamorous." And those are all attributes Miller herself aspires lo—as long as it's not too early in the day. "I am not a morning person," she says with certainty. "My friends and my family know not to call until after noon. I love sleeping."

ROCK BOTTOM
The Flintstones' John Goodman wasn't screaming yabba-dabba-doo when he tried on Fred Flintstone's trademark duds—a short, sleeveless, burnt-umber number. "I must admit that I don't look very good in a dress," says Goodman, 41, who plays the cartoon caveman. "I have rather knobby knees, and brown suede really isn't my color." Still, Goodman got to I like performing pantless. "It was very liberating and cool on those hot days of filming [in L.A.]. Talk about ventilation! The only thing missing from my ensemble was nice jewelry." His, movie mother-in-law, Elizabeth Taylor, had first option on the good stuff.

CLOTHES ENCOUNTERS
Beverly Hills, 90210's resident music man Brian Austin Green and his girlfriend, actress Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (Saved by the Bell), have been solid for over a year, but the couple splits when it comes to shopping. "She buys clothes constantly," gripes Green, 20. "She's like, 'I can't pay my bills! But look at my new pants—they were only $7,000!' I refuse to go shopping with her." And though Green cops to owning "a lot of Armani," he favors the more economical style of the muscle-beach set. "I cut the sleeves off of my T-shirts," says Green. "Sometimes I wear the sleeve as a headband." His 90210 pal Jason Priestley also spends conservatively. Says Green: "Jay's constantly looking at stocks, 'Oh, cool, man—my Exxon went up.' He'll never be poor."