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Producer Dmae Roberts features an exclusive interview with Henry Winkler about his new young adult book “Hank Zipzer: A Brand New Life. Actor Henry Winkler, best known for his playing “The Fonz” on the long-running show “Happy Days” recently came to Portland to debut his new book focusing on the learning challenges of a 5th grade boy named Hank Zipzer. Dmae talked with Winkler while he was signing books backstage at Powell’s Books.
Winkler's final Hank Zipzer book has just been published. He's also starring in the hit summer show "Royal Pains" on the USA network.
This was originally aired on Roberts' local arts show Stage and Studio.
Can be aired as an interview or as raw cuts inserted into a feature story as long as credit is given to Dmae Roberts for the original interview.
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Producer Dmae Roberts features an exclusive interview with Henry Winkler about his new young adult book “Hank Zipzer: A Brand New Life. Actor Henry Winkler, best known for his playing “The Fonz” on the long-running show “Happy Days” recently came to Portland to debut his new book focusing on the learning challenges of a 5th grade boy named Hank Zipzer. Dmae talked with Winkler while he was signing books backstage at Powell’s Books.
Winkler's final Hank Zipzer book has just been published. He's also starring in the hit summer show "Royal Pains" on the USA network.
This was originally aired on Roberts' local arts show Stage and Studio.
Can be aired as an interview or as raw cuts inserted into a feature story as long as credit is given to Dmae Roberts for the original interview.
Transcript
T Henry Winkler
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HENRY WINKLER: Hank Zipzer is nine years old, starts in the fourth grade in the very first book, has the worst teacher in America. Her breath is gray, her soul is gray, her fingernails are gray, her bun is gray. Ms. Adolf. And I think she was related, I’m not kidding. Yeah. In the end, in the seventeenth book, he graduates from fifth grade into middle school. So it is his journey with dyslexia. He’s got two great friends, Frankie and Ashley. Frankie is African-American. Ashley is Asian-American. They are not dyslexic, but they love Hank. And they take good care of Hank.
DMAE ROBERTS: What I got from this book is that he’s incredibly smart and quite creative and yet he’s so frustrated all the time.
HENRY WINKLER: Well the most important thing that I say ad nauseum to children, over and over again, is “How you learn, at what rate you learn, has nothing to do with h...
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