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MARRIED. Henry ("The Fonz") Winkler, 32, swaggering star of television's nostalgic series Happy Days and Hollywood screen actor (Heroes, The One and Only); and Stacey Weitzman, 30, a Los Angeles fashion publicist; in the Manhattan synagogue where he became a bar mitzvah...
Toal came on in the final three dives to outpoint Steck by the score of 498.0 to 491.0. Pitt's Scott Winkler and Columbia's Mike Gurnee finished third and fourth, respectively, to round out the top four who became eligible for the national meet at Long Beach, Cal., March...
...society. One can only be awed by the comic daring of everyone concerned with The One and Only for trying to make such a character appealing for the length of a movie. The One and Only does not quite make it, because even as portrayed by the likable Henry Winkler, Andy is finally a tiresome fellow. But the effort is a game one, and there is a certain originality about the fate that the film works out for Andy. Having failed as an actor in New York, he takes his special brand of egomania over to professional wrestling. The time...
...movie is content to look back at wrestling's tacky milieu without trying to score any pretentious, socially significant points. It also leaves Andy happy with celebrity at any price, and that may be a mistake. Winkler's essential intelligence shines through anything he does, and it would not make his character's strange fate any less funny if, finally, he were permitted to discover that there was some thing missing from his scheme of values...
...because Fred Silverman, the network's programming whiz, knows that audiences want to see characters on the tube. The people on ABC are often cartoon figures, but their outlines are filled in by talented and at times magnestic performers. Like Jackie Gleason and Lucille Ball before them, Henry Winkler and Laverne & Shriley's Penny Marshall can transform rampant silliness into laughter...