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Arthur Fonzarelli, or ‘The Fonz’ from the classic television series, “Happy Days,” will be immortalized in bronze in the city of Milwaukee.

The City hopes that tourists will be drawn to the city to see the statue of the pop culture icon. Visit Milwaukee, a non-profit group for tourism in the city has raised $45,000 of the $85,000 it needs to have the sculpture commissioned. They say they are on schedule to reveal the statue sometime in 2008.

Happy Days co-creator Garry Marshall and Henry Winkler, who played The Fonz, have both approved the project. Winkler seemed both shocked and thrilled about the statue. He said,

“It’s an honor, but it is so bizarre to think there should be a statue. I wasn’t sure it was something that could happen to me.”

Winkler added that he loves the idea and that he will come to town for the dedication.

“If it helps the city, a city that has been so supportive and warm to me over the years, then I am so OK with it.”

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Check out this hoppin’ 80’s beach concert with none other than the Beach Boys singing ‘Sail on Sailor’.

Not one of the Beach Boys trademark songs, but those who grew up the the 70’s should remember this one.

When you think of Pop Art who comes immediately to mind?  Andy Warhol of course!  You’ve all seen the Campbell’s soup can and the Marilyn Monroe pieces, but here are some others that you may not have seen.  Andy liked his subjects to be either celebrities, colorful individuals, inanimate objects or animals and his pieces were always full of color.

1977. Fear and poverty grip the city. Underground, a pop-culture revolution is brewing that will change the way the world looks at art, music, dance and politics for generations to come. Click here for more ! Saturday, August 11 at 9/8c, only on VH1.

This two-part, two-hour documentary tells the story of one of the most astonishing pop culture years in American history. New York City had fallen in decay and chaos. There were not enough jobs, not enough money, not enough police, not enough schools, and not enough social services. There was a city wide black out with major looting, there was a serial killer on the loose, and the Bronx was burning.

Yet out of the chaos, emerged one of the most creative times any city has ever encountered. Hip Hop was emerging from the South Bronx, punk music was emerging from the lower eastside, and disco was emerging from Queens and midtown Manhattan. Elaborate, finely crafted graffiti art decorated the subway cars. Break-dancers danced in the streets. There was a huge sexual liberation with sex clubs and a burgeoning porn industry. In the beginning of the year, the world was not paying attention, and most of this activity existed in its own underground bubble. Yet by the end of 1977 all of this artistic expression was about to become part of mainstream America and would remain popular for generations to come. Maybe it would never again be this independent expression, not invented for money or fame, but the need to rebel against the mayhem around them. Maybe it would go on to be commercialized and sterilized for massive consumption. Maybe it would never again be this unique.

It was, after all, a very special window in time, that doesn’t happen too often. And it will be celebrated in the documentary NY77.

The film will be graphically dizzying and groundbreaking, led by the team that produced the acclaimed documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture. Firehouse Films was created in 2004 by Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Nanette Burstein.

Can you tell who the celebrities are?

1977.

Fear and poverty grip the city. Blackouts, fires and looting. The Son of Sam murders. Underground, a pop-culture revolution is brewing that will change the way the world looks at art, music, dance and politics for generations to come.

Click here for more! Saturday, August 11 at 9/8c, only on VH1.