 A selection of these columns was released in a book in 1990 using the title "Vandaag geen nieuws" (No news today).During this period he presented the television show "Fantastico".Together with Dimitri Frenkel Frank Long composed the Dutch musical Chekhov (based upon the life of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov), which was a big success in the Netherlands, but the German version in which Long also participated, was less popular.