Why Ron Howard’s ‘Nice’ Reputation Is So Fitting (Guest Column)
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variety.comJanet Maslin Ron Howard has been part of our collective consciousness for as long as I can remember. Or at least he looms large in mine.
Born in 1954, he was on many of the TV series I grew up watching and had his own starring role on “The Andy Griffith Show” by 1960.
And his father had the idea that little “Ronny Howard” should play a good kid, not the wise-guy type popular in those “Dennis the Menace” years.
He’d be nice. It stuck. He’s been known as “nice” ever since. That made him much too easy to dismiss. However prominent he was — as a principal star of “American Graffiti” in 1973, top-billed “Happy Days” actor the next year and then as a director debuting with “Night Shift” in 1977 — we could take him lightly.
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