I’m thinking, ‘Hey, this is great.” Half the smile is Henry going, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe you just did that.’ And the other half is the Fonz going, ‘All right, here I am. “When I hit the beach at the end-when I’ve jumped the shark-I land on the beach and I step out of my skis. Winkler, a New York City native, had loved water skiing in upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he explained, and he performed all but the actual jump stunt in that fateful episode. It’s very important.’ I finally tell Garry, ‘My father wants you to know I water ski.’” “y father, the short German, said to me every day for years, ‘Tell Garry Marshall that you water ski.’ ‘Dad, I don’t think I’m going to do that.’ ‘No, no. It was his first Primetime Emmy win in his long career, though he’d been nominated several times. Last year he won the same award for playing Cousineau, “the passionate but fatuous instructor” ( as the New York Times put it) adored by his students. That show recently received six Emmy nominations for its second season, including Winkler’s second nomination in the role for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. Today, Winkler plays the past-his-heyday acting coach Gene Cousineau on the bleak HBO comedy Barry, created by comedian Bill Hader. In fact, at age 73, he’s enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and he has recently voiced some reassuring words about the famous phrase linked to his name. To some people-namely a college kid (later a comedian) who first coined “jump the shark” in the late ’80s-the show never recovered. In his signature motorcycle jacket and t-shirt-and jorts-the Fonz, played by a young Henry Winkler, looked ridiculous. That stunt was so unlike the Fonz, and outside the Happy Days world, that it came to be seen as a cheap stunt.
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