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Henry Winkler makes his feature film directorial debut with Memories of
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Winkler's 'Happy Days'
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N
ew York — Henry
Winkler was fingered
for fame as the fun-
filled Fonz of the '50s-era
"Happy Days."
But when the popular TV
sitcom ended its 10-year run
four years ago, Winkler
wasn't about to hop aboard
his motorcycle for a ride into
residuals. Instead, he traded
in his black leather jacket for
a tweedier look, which the
erstwhile video rock n' rollin'
good sport is sporting now as
we sit and chat about
Memories of Me.
hoping
is
Winkler
a
makes
Memories
memorable impression on au-
diences; it is his first-feature
film director's job. And as we
talk about Winkler's own
memories of the Fonz and of
growing up in a Jewish
household that seemed puzzl-
ed by his choice of career,
Winkler gives a character-
istic thumbs-up to the way he
is feeling. These are,
acknowledges the good-
looking guy with the good-
looking career, happy days
once again.
But first to the less-than-
ecstatic memories of parents
who were perplexed that the
son they raised would con-
sider raising hell as an actor.
"My parents were very strict;
they were from Europe,"
recalls Winkler with a gleam
in his eye. "They had other
ideas of what I should be!'
Such as? "My father
wanted me to take over the
family business, which was
lumber!' No knock on wood,
but Winkler knocks wood he
didn't follow his dad's wishes.
"I knew what I would do since
I was 7."
And what he would do is act
— no matter how hard his
family tried to bring down the
curtain on those ambitions.
"They really believed I would
outgrow my need for theater,"
he says.
The footlights found
Winkler center stage. A
graduate of Emerson College,
where he majored in drama,
Winkler earned a Master of
Fine Arts Degree from the
Yale School of Drama.
"Now that I'm 43," says the
eternally youthful-looking
former Fonz, "I look back and
realize that my parents gave
me a great life. We finally had
a meeting of the minds, but
for so many years I had this
tremendous feeling of not be-
ing understood!'
Understandably, such a
sense of alienation filters
through his directorial debut
in Memories of Me, which
focuses on a strained relation-
ship much in need of mending
between a cardiac-surgeon
son and his seemingly
heartless father.
"There is some of Abbie (the