By one role. Henry winkler was the fonz, the cool dude at the centre of the us tv show happy days which was a worldwide hit in the 70s and 80s. The show portrayed an innocent, untroubled 1950s america. It was a far cry from winklers own childhood which was clouded by undiagnosed dyslexia. How did a troubled kid come to be a symbol of sunny optimism, and what happened to the idealised america of happy days . Henry winkler, welcome to hardtalk. I am happy to be here. Let me take you back to 1974, the first airing of the show happy days, which was to become a massive hit. Did you have a gut instinct when you first played the fonz that this was going to happen . No. I was hired as a fringe character with six lines. I would work one day a week. I would sit in my apartment most of the rest of the week because i couldnt play during a work week but i had no work because i only worked one day a week. And then remember, we did it with one camera. Like a little movie. We shot 12 slows. We were nu
By one role. Henry winkler was the fonz, the cool dude at the centre of the us tv show happy days which was a worldwide hit in the 70s and 80s. The show portrayed an innocent, untroubled 1950s america. It was a far cry from winklers own childhood which was clouded by undiagnosed dyslexia. How did a troubled kid come to be a symbol of sunny optimism, and what happened to the idealised america of happy days . Henry winkler, welcome to hardtalk. I am happy to be here. Let me take you back to 1974, the first airing of the show happy days, which was to become a massive hit. Did you have a gut instinct when you first played the fonz that this was going to happen . No. I was hired as a fringe character with six lines. I would work one day a week. I would sit in my apartment most of the rest of the week because i couldnt play during a work week but i had no work because i only worked one day a week. And then remember, we did it with one camera. Like a little movie. We shot 12 slows. We were nu
For diabetes research. The amazing thing, she was on my show in 1999. And we talked about it then. And look how long she fought it before she finally was conquered by it . But i remember at that time how valiant she seemed. Here is another thing about Mary Tyler Moore. Mary tyler moore lived closer to death and to illness than the rest of us do in the course of her lifetime. It was always there. Of course, she lost a son to a gunshot wound. It was always there, always present. And she knew always that eventually her condition would deteriorate, as it does with people who have diabetes. And yet she was able to continue to work. Look what she did in ordinary people. Perhaps the most remarkable thing she ever did was ordinary people where she completely
producer of grays anatomy, people, young girls were watching grays anatomy, its been on television ten years. I know there is a whole generation of Women Reporters who were truly inspired by Mary Tyler Moore in that show. Did she realize h