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...gals who are welcome on my set any day, Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Brooke Shields, 17. Brookie will be joining me in a spoof of Happy Days moved ahead 50 years from now. She'll play the new girl in town, and I'll play the Fonz. (Eat your heart out, Winkler.) Brookie's been in seven of my last 15 specials. I don't want to say that we've been spending a lot of time together, but I think I saw less of Crosby...
...named Babaloo Mandel can be without its patches of agreeable whimsy. But Ron Howard, who has been acting in sitcoms (The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days) for most of his 28 years, should know more about shaping comic characters, situations and moods than he shows here. Winkler, the Fonz on Happy Days, is pleasantly put-upon here; Michael Keaton, also from TV, is mildly manic; and Shelley Long so resembles Pam Dawber in her squeaky cuteness that one wonders why the producers didn't raid Mork and Mindy for the real thing. Sitcom humor, like water...
BORN. To Henry Winkler, 34, actor (Heroes, The One and Only) best known for his portrayal of "the Fonz" in the television series Happy Days, and his wife of two years, Publicist Stacey Weitzman, 32: a daughter, his first child, her second; in Los Angeles. Name: Zoe Emily...
Lawyers advise the class how to write a will, and each child does. A girl stipulates: "I leave my bed to my second cousin Millie." A boy's will: "My puppy to Tim. Fonz helmet to Tom." Out of who knows what urge one willmaker allots his comic books to his brother but specifies...
Children love him because his daffy repertoire of Ork language can be mimicked endlessly. Already Mork's "nano, nano" (translation: hello) has replaced the Fonz's "aaaayyy" as the catchword of the nation's kids. Adults like his spontaneous riffs. On one program he launched into a singsong: "Shah, Shah, Ayatollah [I tol' yuh], Shah, Shah, Ayatollah...