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Aaaay! Milwaukee to Cast Fonz in Bronze

Posted Jan 25, 08 2:15 PM CST in US,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Milwaukee’s about to get way cooler. Thanks to private donations and teenagers who bought “Bronze the Fonz” T-shirts, the tourist bureau has raised $85,000 to erect a permanent bronze tribute to Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, the leather-jacketed biker in the Milwaukee-set '70s hit sitcom “Happy Days.” But the the local art community isn't impressed; one gallery is even said to be closing in protest.

That gallery’s owner called the statue a “monstrosity” that cements Wisconsin’s football-and-beer image, the Wisconsin Business Journal reports. Artists managed to grouse enough to get the city to reclassify the statue from “art” to “trinket.” But it’s not a trinket to Henry Winkler. “'What a phenomenal compliment," said the actor who immortalized the Fonz. "I don't take it lightly, that's for sure."

Sources Milwaukee Business Journal, Associated Press

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This is an undated file photo of the cast of the television series,"Happy Days." Visit Milwaukee, a group that promotes the city as a tourism and convention destination, is raising money for a bronze...   (Associated Press)
This is how Henry Winkler - the Fonz - looks these days.   (Getty Images)
The man on the left is about to have a statue made of him.   (Archive Photos)
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