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Henry Winkler is the biggest star on prime-time TV and understandably so. As Fonzie, the motorcycle-crazy greaser of Happy Days, he raises '50s cool to the boiling point. The Fonz is no different from the hero of any other ABC sitcom, but Winkler does not settle for mugging his way through the role. Instead he galvanizes the tube with shrewd comic timing and swaggering sexuality he gives the audience Bugs Bunny crossed with James Dean, and each week some 47 million Americans go wild...
Despite two mad scenes and numerous other opportunities to embarrass himself, Henry Winkler does manage to survive Heroes-but barely. In the future he would be wise to apply the Fonz's cagey bike-riding style to his fledgling movie career: while TV actors have every right to burst out of the 21-in. screen, they are more likely to land safely if they look before they leap...
...spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guinea-homeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigod-have a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangalla-namely, the Phantom...
...slower than 62.00). Winners in each class get up to $100 in prizes. Inevitably, in Southern California, the sport attracts non-track stars, notably James Garner, Connie Stevens, Flip Wilson (he didn't flip), David Cassidy and sundry rockers, who to date have won no prizes. Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler went off the track on his first lap. But the best customers, the Malibu managers maintain, are the nonfamous people like the 42-year-old woman who set a track record-Alltime Slowest-on her first time out. She did the first 800-meter lap in 212 sec.-equivalent...
...time will soon have to live without a new cop show. Up against The Waltons and the Osmonds, CHiPS may not last out the month. Erik Estrada stars as a motorcycle cop named Poncherello ("Ponch" to friends) who bears an all too obvious resemblance to both Baretta and the Fonz. For an hour, he and his partner (Larry Wilcox) ride the Los Angeles freeways arresting or aiding motorists. Occasionally they take a break to bicker with their strident commanding sergeant (Robert Pine) or flirt with pretty girls...