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'Happy Days' star Linda Purl recalls Henry Winkler's emotional meeting with a terminally ill child as Fonzie
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| November 4, 2022
| Stephanie Nolasco
Posted on 11/05/2022 12:27:57 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Bullish
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posted on
11/05/2022 5:25:56 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
To: x
Excellent reference points; I forgot about them.
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posted on
11/05/2022 8:54:47 PM PDT
by
john drake
(Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
To: sam_whiskey
Maybe, but this story was about how he treated a fan, a terminally ill child.
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posted on
11/05/2022 10:48:25 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: lowbridge
She's 67, yet gorgeous still.
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posted on
11/05/2022 10:54:18 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: x
Sure, it was a fantasy. TV always creates a caricature. Lenny and Squiggy weren't typical of anything either. Garry Marshall was trying to cash in on the Sha-Na-Na, Grease thing. Grease the theatrical musical, not the movie which came later. I always thought “American Graffiti” was one of the influences.
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posted on
11/05/2022 11:00:25 PM PDT
by
Allegra
To: SamAdams76
The Fonz character seems to be a carryover from the Lords of Flatbush movie.
To: Allegra
Probably a bigger one. I forgot all about it. Ron Howard was in both in both the movie and the TV show and his character was similar, so that explains a lot about where Garry Marshall's mind probably was. Funny thing, though,
American Grafitti was set in 1962, not in the Fifties.
Grease was more memorable to me because my sister was always playing the record, singing the songs, and going to the movie. When I looked up Grease, I found that Sha-Na-Na was an influence on that, and I took it from there. There was a leather jacket guy in American Grafitti, but the comic aspects of Fonzi may owe more to Bowser or Grease.
You're right, though. However big Grease the movie would be later, more people saw American Grafitti than Grease the musical, and Marshall must have seen it too.
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posted on
11/06/2022 8:56:38 AM PST
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x
To: BookmanTheJanitor
The scene where Michael finds out how old Pam’s mom is ...hard to watch. Yes! Lots of cringey pathos... like in the "Scott's Tots" episode.
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posted on
11/06/2022 9:06:59 AM PST
by
LittleBillyInfidel
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