Showbiz lives: Ron and Clint Howard on their breezy, brotherly Hollywood memoir
"Clint, you're sideways."
"Well, I either have to be sideways or upside down. What's better?"
"Sideways," says Ron Howard, steady helmsman of about 30 features and documentaries. Brother Clint Howard, five years his junior and proud owner of more than 250 acting credits, nods with something like satisfaction. His image on the screen remains sideways, and his older sibling allows the slightest of smiling head shakes — a silent "That's my brother."
In tank top and wildish white hair, Clint looks in character for a movie located deep in the woods of North Carolina, but he's in the state for an "" (Ron, of course, played young Opie on that '60s hit, while Clint had a beloved recurring role as ). During a Zoom interview, Ron talks more than Clint, is more functionally illuminated and moves less. Gravity-defying Clint
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