Live webchat with Henry Winkler on Monday 6th July at 9pm (GMT)

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We're delighted to welcome Mr Henry Winkler (aka The Fonz) to Mumsnet for a live webchat from his home in LA. Henry has transformed his own experiences of struggling through school with unidentified dyslexia into a great series of books for kids; 'Hank Ziper: The World's Greatest Underachiever'. As well as telling us about his books, Henry will be chatting about his own experiences with dsylexia, his recent tour of UK schools and of course dancing around the juke box at Arnold's Restaurant. If you can't join us on the day, post your advance questions here.

hi henry do you ever read any of the mumsnet threads

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Hi Henry :0 :0

okay first question.. are your new books going to be available on CD or downloadable MP3 ?.. we're a dyslexic family we love books and this would make it so much more accessible (sp)

BTW it is very very cool to be able to tell DS's that the fonz is dyslexic to!!

secondly, did you have a scribe, or voice recognition programme to write the books.. or have you worked through your issues and found ways round it or just tackled it all a bit head on? ( I remember the patterns of the words on the keyboard )

when did you eventually get diagnosed and with that how did you feel?

( my experience of this was that I had spent so long being the best I could in more artist areas, sidelined that fact that I struggle with the written word. so when I was diagnosed much later on 20/21 years old.. it was all a bit ohhh ahhh so how do we fix it then.. and of course that doesn't actually happen as such.. it has really taken me until recently that, actually if I hadn't been awful at english.. I wouldn't be doing the best job in the world now!.. but it took a while to get my head round.)

questions from my ds's.

ds1:

did you get picket on at school becouse you found it harder than others to spell?

(ds1 wrote that and now for ds2 and I'm letting him type his question as well .. he's 10 )

ds2 :

what is it like being famous but disliksik?

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ooops ds1 is 14..

sorry just incase Igot missed

Nothing but that.

As you were.

what's your favourite band henry? or musician, i imagine you're a bit of a hippy rather than a rocker

Hurrah!!! for Marion/Ron goss.

Who is Brian Cant? Was he the British version of Mr Rogers (I can never look at him without thinking of the Eddie Murphy SNL version )?

For goodness sake get MN to put a link to your book.

Can you sign one and we can do a MN auction for a charity for it?

Oh, wow. I've been away for the 4th, and look you guys have THE FONZ. I don't really have a question, just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Funny or Die spot you guys did for Barack Obama. And I just wanted to brag that I'm in the same time zone as he is. Neener-neener.

(Ok, seriously, I don't get that giddy about famous people, but he's one of my first crushes, and you always hear what a great guy he is, never anything bad about him.)

Also how did being dyslexic affect your relatinship with your children regarding encouraging them to read, bed time stories etc.

I think you've done some charity work for cerebral palsy

is there a personal connection with someone with cerebral palsy?

lusty, i KNEW it. please send her the love of an imaginary person off the internet next time you see her, henry. och, all that happy days cast were great, weren't they?

and please tell will arnett that i wish to marry him. he's legitimately on my okayed list with dh. all he has to do is sort it out his end with that talented beautiful wife of his and we're away.

teeeeeeeeelllll me about arrested development. what did it feel like when the moron execs told you it was canned? (ladies, if you take nothing away from this webchat, please buy the box set, you will thank me).

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Henry: is this the SWOONIEST chat/interview you've ever done??

I don't have anything witty to say

So will sit and

"Smart. Warm. Intuitive. Feisty. Lusty. And Funny."
oh god that is great
i love her too
can we have her on next

good idea , wotzy!

What would you say to people who insist that dyslexia does not exist?

Happy days you tube

Yes, please tell us about Arrested Development. Is it possible that we will see Barry Zuckerkorn on the screen again?

Children sleeping:

We had an earthquake here in LA in 93 or 94.

Our son Max was about 11.

It frightened him so, he slept at the end of our bed on the floor on uncomfortable cusions...

For two years.

My leather jacket is in the Smithsonian Museam in Washington, D.C.

They made 5 because the first one was stolen from the costume department at Paramount.

The one I used to jump the shark had the lining ripped out of to make it easier for me to water-ski.

My proudest moment, outside my children, are the funny children's novels I write with my partner Lin Oliver.

HANK ZIPZER: THE WORLD'S GREATEST UNDERACHIEVER!

We make the kids laugh first.

The message...

it does not matter how you learn.

HOW YOU LEARN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW BRILLENT YOU ARE. HOW INVENTIVE YOU ARE. HOW CREATIVE YOU ARE.

My parner Lin and I are writting the 17th novel right now.

We are on chapter 14.

A speech bubble:

On a teacher's poster board -

"Children, you have greatness inside you."

genius buy this.

I will post the speech bubble on thursday whrn i am back at work

thanks lulu, I should work in promotions and marketing
(oh, silly me I do already)

aitch - jason bateman...another crush odm mine - tho more of a 13 year old one