...ANGELES—For all the disclosures former President Richard Nixon makes in "Frost/Nixon," director Ron Howard has one of his own. Howard says he voted for Nixon in 1972. "Yeah I did," Howard said at a discussion following a Hollywood screening late last...
...1977?' And it would be like, `Frost, who?' `Nixon, what?"' He pauses, laughing. "It's not exactly high-concept, is it?" Ron Howard ultimately won the rights to the play, which turned the landmark 1977 television sparring match between talk-show...
...individual. Besides, these stars are so rich that it has them thinking they are better than the rest of the world. Maybe Ron Howard should run for President and I WON’T vote for him or watch any of his movies that he has produced. The looney left is at...
...movies and his abilities as a director. Not every movie after that was great, but the anticipation level for each new Ron Howard film was always high. RANSOM, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, CINDERELLA MAN, and, yes, even THE DA VINCI CODE were "event" movies....
Background
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning director and producer. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show (credited as Ronny Howard), and later in the 1970s as Howard Cunningham's son and Arthur Fonzarelli's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on Happy Days (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). Since retiring from acting, he has directed several successful films including Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind.
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