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“Movie: Drunk Stoned Brilliant
Dead: The Story of the National
Lampoon”
“Family Law”
From Canada comes this dramedy that
follows a group of flawed family members
who reluctantly work together at their
father’s law firm in downtown Vancouver.
Jewel Staite (“Firefly”), Victor Garber
(“Legends of Tomorrow”), Genelle Wil-
liams (“Warehouse 13”) and Zach Smadu
(“The Expanse”) head the cast.
Checking in with
HENRY WINKLER
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Douglas Tirola’s 2015 documentary is a
love letter to the iconoclastic and often
outrageous National Lampoon magazine,
including extensive and previously unseen
archival material and illustrations from its
pages. The film also includes new inter-
views with Chevy Chase, “Animal House”
director John Landis, Kevin Bacon, Tim
Matheson, Beverly D’Angelo, writer P.J.
O’Rourke, Billy Bob Thornton, John
Goodman and a host of others.
“Movie: Permanent”
Bullied at her small-town Virginia school
after getting a perm her clueless parents
got her at a beauty school, 13-year-old
Aurelie (Kira McLean, “The Veil”) schemes
to raise the money to get it corrected in
this 1980s-set 2017 comedy from writer/
director Colette Burson (“Hung”). Patricia
Arquette and Rainn Wilson also star.
It has been quite the career for Henry Winkler.
Indeed, the 76-year-old Yale-trained actor has quietly put together
an impressive body of work since he first rose to prominence as ‘50s
greaser Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli in the 1974-84 ABC sitcom
“Happy Days.”
Over his more than 50 years in television, Winkler has amassed
100-plus TV credits, done another 38 movies, appeared in several
stage productions and written numerous books for children and
adults. He’s also been nominated for eight Emmy Awards, winning
once in 2018 for his role as acting teacher Gene Cousineau in the
HBO comedy “Barry,” which returns for its third season Sunday,
April 24.
In fact, Winkler himself at one time taught acting, experience he
was able to use in creating the character.
“I have had the experience of five times of holding master classes,”
Winkler explains, “and it is one of my favorite things. I’m not sure
I know what I’m talking about but whatever I’m feeling about what
the actors in front of me are doing, it is my pleasure to try and get
them to taste something different than they came into the room
with, just by pushing them a little bit. So it goes back and forth. I
take Gene with me, and I bring Henry to Gene.”
Winkler brought Gene to the New York subway system in 2019,
when he participated in a “Barry” ad campaign that consisted of a
“Movie: Crush”
Forced to join her high school’s track team,
an aspiring artist uses it as an opportunity
to pursue the girl she has a crush on —
that is, until she starts falling for one of
her teammates in this romantic comedy
from director Sammi Cohen in her feature
film directorial debut. Rowan Blanchard,
Auli’i Cravalho, Isabella Ferreira and Tyler
Alvarez head the cast. (ORIGINAL)
poster with the character’s picture and a number to call for acting
lessons.
“I thought it might have been the best campaign I’ve ever been
part of,” Winkler, a native New Yorker, says, “and I did the voice for
the phone number, so if you called the phone number you literally
heard me talk to you. I was so proud, because I took that subway
for the greater part of my life before I came to Hollywood. I was so
thrilled to be part of that campaign.”
Full name: Henry Franklin Winkler
Birth date: Oct. 30, 1945
Birthplace: New York City
Alma mater: Studied theater at Emerson College
(bachelor’s degree) and Yale School of Drama (master’s degree)
Family ties: He and wife Stacey have two sons and a
daughter
TV credits include: “Another World,” “The Mary Tyler
Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show,” “Happy Days,”
“Rhoda,” “Mork & Mindy,” “Laverne & Shitley,” “Joanie Loves
Chachi,” “Sesame Street,” “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,”
“MacGyver,” “The Larry Sanders Show,” “The Practice,” “Third
Watch,” “Clifford’s Puppy Days” (voice), “Crossing Jordan,”
“NUMB3RS,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Childrens Hospital,”
“Royal Pains,” “Arrested Development”