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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 9 February 2019

Henry Winkler enjoying a run of very cool coincidences

By BROOKE LEFFERTS “It was really terrific. People
Associated Press say that they have their
NEW YORK (AP) — Things Emmy as a doorstop or in
are coming full circle for the bathroom.
Henry Winkler in many Mine is on the dining room
ways. table. You can’t miss it. You
The actor, best known for know what? I’m having a
playing “The Fonz” on the chain made right as we
1970s hit sitcom “Happy speak so I can wear it as a
Days,” is also a prolific au- necklace,” he said with a
thor of children’s books laugh.
and recently paid a visit to In another full circle mo-
promote his latest book at ment, he recently wrapped
his old elementary school in a scene in “Barry” and real-
New York City. ized he was on Stage 19 at
“I thought this was amaz- the Paramount lot. “That is
ing. The way the world the very sound stage where
comes together,” he told for nine years we shot ‘Hap-
the Associated Press. py Days,’” he said.
His latest book is the 29th Winkler recently finished
in a series, called “Here’s shooting in France on a new
Hank: Everybody is Some- Wes Anderson film starring
body,” about a kid named Timothee Chalamet. In yet
Hank who goes to Public another remarkable turn
School 87 in New York City, of events, when he met
the same school the author Chalamet, the young actor
attended. It’s based on told him that not only did
Winkler’s experiences as a In this Feb. 5, 2019 photo, actor and author Henry Winkler appears during a portrait session in New he also go to P.S. 87 but he
child who struggles to read York to promote his latest book in the “Here’s Hank” series, “Everybody Is Somebody.” once heard Winkler read a
and keep up at school. Associated Press “Hank” book in that same
Winkler never dreamed book in their best-selling for going home. I was really me. This is the way I feel,’ school library when he was
he’d be an author. He had series. The message of the good when the bell rung,” so parents learn about their 8 years old.
trouble reading as a child books is that no matter how Winkler said. child and that child didn’t “You know my mantra for
and academics were dif- hard school is, it has noth- The books are designed feel alone,” he said. the longest time has always
ficult for him. It wasn’t un- ing to do with intelligence. with easy-to-read font After nearly 50 years in the been ‘If you will it, it is not
til he was an adult and his It struck a nerve with both and simple stories. Win- entertainment business, a dream,’” Winkler said,
stepson was diagnosed kids and parents. kler says they’ve been a Winkler is having a mo- “and literally a few years
with dyslexia that his own “Even at 73, I can tap “breakthrough” for some ment. In addition to the ago I changed my man-
challenges had a name. into the pain of the 8-, 9-, kids. “What a compliment. book series, he just finished tra to ‘I will try’ because if
In an effort to help children 10-year-old in me that nev- We’ve met kids who said work on season two of the you don’t, you don’t know
like him, he got together er achieved. I was told that ‘How did you know me so quirky HBO comedy, “Bar- what wonderfulness is in-
with comedy writer Lin I would never achieve. I well?’ Or they would nudge ry,” for which he just won side you, what you can ac-
Oliver and wrote the first failed at everything except their parent to go ‘This is his first Emmy Award. tually do.”q

Studio immortalizes ‘Big Bang Theory’ as series nears finale

By DAVID BAUDER crew. “I’m so sad.” a Half Men,” it’s the sec-
AP Media Writer Lorre said it wasn’t his call ond such honor that Lorre is
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — to end the series, but now responsible for. One of the
Champagne briefly re- that it’s been made the most successful comedy
placed scripts Thursday for time feels right. producers of all time, Lorre
a ceremony renaming the The cast rehearsed an also produces “Mom” and
nondescript Stage 25 on episode that hints at some “Young Sheldon” for CBS.
the sprawling Warner Bros. upcoming transitions with While broad, mainstream
production lot after the sit- barely a flub. It’s not an un- fare is his forte, Lorre just
com “The Big Bang Theory.” familiar ritual: they will have won a Golden Globe when
Still television’s most popu- made 279 episodes by the his Netflix series “The Komin-
lar comedy, the show will time it all ends in May. sky Method,” which stars
exit the airwaves and the The episode they rehearsed Michael Douglas and Alan
studio it has called home will be filmed before a live Arkin, was named best
for 12 years this spring. audience later this week. comedy.
Actors Jim Parsons, John- Only four other studios at Despite success in what is
ny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, the cast and crew of “The Big Warner Bros. have a simi- seen as the hipper stream-
Mayim Bialik and the rest Bang Theory” accept the award for favorite network TV comedy lar plaque for the series ing service, Lorre said in an
of the comic ensemble ran at the People’s Choice Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los that filmed there, with oth- interview he has no inter-
through lines for an episode Angeles. ers named for “Two and a est in turning his back on
that will air in early March Associated Press Half Men,” ‘’ER,” ‘’Friends” broadcast television, the
before studio brass joined “We’re going to be misera- creator Chuck Lorre told and “Ellen.” Given that he medium that earned him a
them to unveil a plaque. ble when this is over,” series the cast and assembled was also behind “Two and fortune. q