Happy Days
For ten years, from 1974 to 1984, a fictional image of suburban Milwaukee brought the 1950s back to America through ABC's Happy Days. The picture of the world that was painted by thi...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
"Happy Days" is a little more than the same old Henry Aldrich sandwich, dressed with the salt of more "relevance" and the store-b...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
"Happy Days" is something that could be good but, evidently, has decided to go the familiar route of "Dobie Gillis," "Fath...
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Critical Essay by Cyclops
["Happy Days"] is a sitcom about the ostensibly innocent fifties. The decade itself is presumed to be a sitcom….
Richie, Potsie and Fonzie are fixate...
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Critical Essay by Richard Schickel
[Happy Days] is the American Graffiti rip-off in which the producers made off with the movie's star (Ron Howard) and its ambience (small-town America in the ...
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Critical Essay by Frank Rich
ABC's shows do not pretend to deal with topical issues, and their premises are brazenly retrograde. Happy Days copies Dobie Gillis…. Laverne and Shirley�...
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Tony-nominated director Deborah Warner and longtime collaborating actress Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies) will be bringing a "far from conventional" production of Samuel Becket...
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The stock market has been in turmoil of late, but the IPO window for software companies is open wider than it has been since the bubble year of 2000.With VMWare's VMW big initial public offering, s...
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Searchers found the body of a 2-year-old Wednesday in the South Platte River, several miles downstream from where he was swept away from his mother during a flash flood.Jose Matthew Jauregui Jr.'s ...
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Aaaaaaay! The Fonz will be returning to Milwaukee later this year — permanently, and in bronze.A statue of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, the leather-jacketed biker from "Happy Days," will be er...
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Bow-tied waiters are dishing up bacon-and-cheese omelets and pecan waffles once again at the venerable Camellia Grill, nearly 20 months after it was closed when the city fled Hurricane Katrina.The ...
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Angelina Jolie, helping an orphans advocacy group establish its headquarters in the nation's capital, pushed Thursday for more U.S. aid for education in developing countries."This is a happy day be...
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Nine black youths were convicted Friday in juvenile court of beating three white women in a racially charged attack on Halloween night.The youths, ranging from 12 to 18 years old, could receive sen...
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Children sang and performers put on a lively dance Friday as Zoo Atlanta unveiled the name of the nation's newest panda cub _ Mei Lan, a 12-poundu ball of adorableness too young to attend the hoopl...
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A wildfire that has blackened 86 square miles on the Kenai Peninsula and destroyed 88 homes and cabins began during work to build a cabin as a wedding present, fire officials and family members sai...
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The Fonz in bronze? It could happen. Visit Milwaukee, a group that promotes the city as a tourism and convention destination, is leading an effort to raise money for a bronze sculpture of the chara...
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Happy Days
Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
Happy Days Comes to Brooklyn
