” ‘We can’t kiss for the first time on camera,’ she said. “She sensed, correctly, that her eighteen-year-old acting partner was inexperienced at kissing scenes and a bundle of nerves about performing them,” he writes. Ron Howard and Cindy Williams co-starred on the big screen in “American Grafitti” (1973). He does, though, write about how, on the set of the 1973 George Lucas comedy “American Graffiti,” when he was 18, his 25-year-old co-star, Cindy Williams (later to star with Penny Marshall on “Laverne & Shirley”), schooled him in the art of smooching. The memoir also features brief forays into some of the brothers’ early movies - but stops short of Ron talking in any detail about his successful directorial career (including “Willow,” “Parenthood,” “Apollo 13,” “Frost/Nixon” and “Hillbilly Elegy”). That’s what they called Jim behind his back, and not with any hint of kindness.” Listening to their on-set chatter, I heard a word I didn’t know: homo. He didn’t pretend to date women or insist he wasn’t gay … The crew, unfortunately, was not as enlightened. Courtesy Everett CollectionĪs for Jim Nabors: “Jim, while private about his private life, was not closeted. Here they’re pictured in 1964 with their actor dad, Rance. He was blunt about what happened: ‘I got drunk, I got mad, and I put my fist through a door.'” Ron Howard (left) and his little brother Clint were child stars who grew up immersed in Hollywood. “He came back from Christmas break one season with his hand all taped up. Ron was only 6 years old when he rose to fame as Opie Taylor on top-ranked sitcom “The Andy Griffith Show,” which chronicled life in folksy Mayberry, NC, and ran from 1960 to 1968.Ĭo-star Andy Griffith was in “genuine pain” as his marriage to his first wife, Barbara, was “unraveling,” he writes. Brothers Clint (left) and Ron Howard have co-written a new showbiz memoir called “The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family.” Getty Images The bulk of the memoir encompasses their television careers. “The Boys” unfolds in a breezy first-person narrative as Ron and Clint, 62, recall growing up with their parents, actors Rance and Jean Howard, and the brothers’ entrees into Hollywood at very early ages. (They reunited for the 1982 big-screen comedy “Night Shift,” which Ron directed.) Series creator Garry Marshall told Ron he wouldn’t change the show’s title if he “didn’t support it” (he didn’t) and “Happy Days” enjoyed a fruitful run from 1974 to 1984, spawning two classic spinoffs (“Mork & Mindy” and “Laverne & Shirley”) and one turkey (“Joanie Loves Chachi”), while bonding Howard and Winkler as lifelong friends. Looking at the men on both sides of my family, I knew it was inevitable … But it started coming out in alarming clumps during this time.” Henry Winkler as “The Fonz” and Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom “Happy Days.” Courtesy Everett Collection Then I started breaking out in eczema rashes all over my body, most acutely on my eyelids … And my hair started thinning. “I probably would have benefited from seeing a psychotherapist … Instead, I kept everything inside. “I didn’t handle my stress particularly well,” he writes. It did not escape my notice that as the season went on, the Fonz was getting more and more screen time,” Howard, 67, writes in “ The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family,” in which he and his brother, actor Clint Howard, reminisce about their careers. Ron Howard was so worried about Henry Winkler’s “The Fonz” eclipsing his character Richie Cunningham during the early run of “Happy Days” that he developed a skin condition and started losing his hair - as ABC toyed with renaming the show “Fonzie’s Happy Days.” ‘Thirteen Lives’ review: Ho-hum Thai cave rescue film needs a heroĬelebs serve hot looks to the premiere of ‘We Feed People’ documentary The true story behind ‘Thirteen Lives’ - and the hero cave diver who saved them Icon Tony Bennett turns 96 during a busy NYC summer of celebrity sightings
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