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MILWAUKEE (AP) - Aaaaaaay! The ultra-cool Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli is coming to Milwaukeepermanently. A bronze statue of the leather-jacketed biker from "Happy Days" will be erected in Milwaukee, where the TV sitcom was set, now that local groups have raised the $85,000 needed to do it.
"Holy mackerel!" said actor Henry Winkler, who played Fonzie during the show's run from 1974 to 1984, when he first heard about the effort to immortalize the character.
"The second thing that hit me was, 'What a phenomenal compliment,'" he told The Associated Press in a phone interview this week from his home in California. "I mean it's not often you have a dream when you're 7 lying in your bed, you get to live your dream out and then someone is going to erect a life-size statue of your creation.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UCTGC00&show_article=1&catnum=0
"Holy mackerel!" said actor Henry Winkler, who played Fonzie during the show's run from 1974 to 1984, when he first heard about the effort to immortalize the character.
"The second thing that hit me was, 'What a phenomenal compliment,'" he told The Associated Press in a phone interview this week from his home in California. "I mean it's not often you have a dream when you're 7 lying in your bed, you get to live your dream out and then someone is going to erect a life-size statue of your creation.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UCTGC00&show_article=1&catnum=0
