When you think of The Fonz, you think of Henry Winkler. In fact, it is hard to imagine anyone else playing the role. But there was someone else who was up for the iconic Happy Days part.
Micky Dolenz was talking about his career to People, and he told the story about how the TV heartthrobs were both the finalists for Arthur Fonzarelli. “I almost got it,” he told then. “Supposedly it was between me and Henry [Winkler]. He remembers it too. The story I heard is that he was in the waiting room, saw me come in, and thought, ‘Oh s—, I’ll never get this — Micky Dolenz is here!’ So we laugh about it now. He’s a good friend and a brilliant talent.”
Does the last surviving member of The Monkees think they made the right choice? “Oh my God, he’s just so good. I was definitely not as good as he was. Come on — he was The Fonz! He had that New York, New Jersey thing down. I’m from Southern California. It wasn’t gonna happen!”
Everything happened as it was supposed to happen. Because of that, Dolenz gets to hit the road this Summer with the Songs & Stories tour. Who knows if he would still be playing music if he played sitcom’s coolest guy?
When I think of the Jonas Brothers, I think of them as goody two shoe singers. But that is me.
That is not what McG thinks, so he cast him to play Paul Stanley in the KISS biopic Shout It Out Loud.
According to Deadline, “Shout It Out Loud focuses on the formation of the ‘70s glitter rock band. Stanley hardly fit the persona of a sex symbol front man as he was growing up. ‘I was deaf in one ear and had a slight deformity that made me look different,’ Stanley once said. ‘I was this short, fat kid, and music became my salvation, a place to hide and dream. And when I played music, there were always girls around.’”
The trade also says that McG is close to finding its Gene Simmons. Who do you think should get the part?
Harry Potter has gone from the pages of a book to the big screen and finally to the stage.
Nine years ago, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child made its debut on the West End, two years after it came to Broadway. In all of that time, no one from any of the movies starred in the play. Can you believe that?
That is all going to change on 11/11. Tom Felton will be reprising his role as Draco on the Great White Way for 19 weeks.
I don’t know who initiated this casting, but it was a brilliant choice. You could say it is a thing of magic.
Jennifer Lopez is taking Kiss of the Spiderwoman to the big screen. Kiss is based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical, which was based on the Oscar-winning movie, which was based on the book.
Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon returns to the movie musical in this dazzling Technicolor-hued fantasy. Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez).
I know this is J-Lo’s dream role. I remember seeing Chita Rivera starring in it on Broadway, and my mom and I were so bored. It was one of the worst musicals I saw on the Great White Way, which is what the Oscar voters like. But will it be enough to get her a nom? Hopefully not because Cynthia Erivo deserves it. Unlike Lopez, she can sing. Didn’t Lopez realize that we can hear her true singing voice in the movie, and it is as bad as she looks as a blonde?
