European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes August 1977 actor director Ron Howard everybody favorite ail american by Judy Klemesrud new York to twi Ron who plays Foi ties Best Friend on the to rated television series Happy is everybody favorite Al american he has Reddish pinkish Pale Blue a slight split Between tils Root it Tutt and a look of perpetual Surprise an his he a 23 Yean going on tie laves he says gee a one might think that such a Sweet and Innoccnzo oking kid would have spent his vacation time from Happy Days drinking milkshakes at the local Dairy Queen or skateboarding Dawn the Hollywood but what this kid did was direct Hia first the in which he also stars and wrote with 48yearold la called grand theft in being released financed by Sloger head of new world Pic who also gave Francis Ford Peter Bogda Novlyn und Martin Scorsese their the film shot in four weeks on a budget of i never Hiduke Aboul my sue while i was doing Ron Howard said the other Day Over a cheeseburger and a Glass of Beer in a new York hotel suite he was sharing with his Ive been wanting to direct since i was a Francis Coppola was maybe 25 when he and Bogdanovich was in his so being Young Doest mean you cant do the in the Howard plays a Middle class youth who slopes to Las vegas with his  played by Nancy Morgan after her millionaire father refuses to give them permission to get married the film includes an 85 minute car Chase involving the Roll Royce Silver Cloud that the couple Elope n Convoy of Highway patrol a school helicopters and the cars of relatives and Stran Yors who pursue the runaway lovers in the Hope of collecting the Reward posted by the Young woman scenes like Init would cause Many More sex i Rienard directors to Chew on their but to hear lion Howard the whole thing was a piece of before inc film i had diagrammed All of the he but shooting stunt shots is not All thai different from shooting dialogue Between two Vou just gel a shut of a car a wide and a shot of a War i did get Panicky on the first by lunch 1 had done Only four or five and according to my schedule i was supposed to do 29 shots 1 went off to lunch and thought i want going to Cut but i and everyone was very excited because the kid director got it done pm the first he Learned Early in picture to work which is the Carman Way of in on one Day toward the end of two of howards units that were working simultaneously on a demolition Derby scene did 91 camera setups in one that a record for the most setups in any he breaking into a big always looking protectively Over his was his who plays a private Detec Tive in grand theft Auto and who directed 40 plays while he was in special services in the air but Hob was really the skipper of the said rarely spoke during i never really Ron howards who was his High school also got into the after the Soman Crew began grumbling boil bad she began Cook ing specializing in family Type such As Knock Wurst and sauerkraut and rack of her Hus band the slender Young who was wearing a Light Blue shirt and Blue appeared As i child Iri such films As the music Man and the eddies father and the Long running television the Andy Griffith in which he played since Howard Haa become mainly an actor joining Footle and the gang in the filming of the filth season of Happy he is committed to the series for two More 1 like the people in working and its really Only a 40hour so i can work on a lot of other has he Ever Felt threatened that Rhetor use character played by Henry Winkler has heavily overshadowed his own Richie i did in the third season we were on the he before per cent of the stories had entered around and then the percent age dropped to 35 per i was Sill in every and my parts were the but i Felt the emphasis changed because the future character began gelling a lot of attention and fun so thu net wort decided id promote Al of sudden the episodes started dealing with rather than maybe u Henry whaler and i haunt liked each and if we were two different there would have been but were All on the series to make Bias successful As and it benefits us All that Tonzie a tremendously Howard Wei for Happy Dayi alter he played another wholesome tanager George locals popular american to almost every role the Young actor has done Bai Beem of the is there anything unwholesome about him he i eat French Fries and drink he sail holding up his bottle of i eat junk foods the Ive also had a speeding ticket arid Ive seen some porno but t make a big Effort to try to be be and As a result people think in Dull in always falling asleep at 10 Bon howards big he is to establish a film production company called major Willi his father and Ity Earold an actor his Ron would direct and All three howards would act and i think that would be real he swallowing his last bile of Ron Howard of Happy Days with actor Ranee directs first film at age at wife end according to most of thu women f have talked husbands notoriously hate the majority of them seem to have a Low Ihre should of tolerance far and keeping awake when someone is telling them about their dogs t always feel sorry for newly weds of couples who do nut know one another Well enough to know when they want to split they just stand there trying to read one an others when we were first i remember standing at a party absolutely miserable with an under my Tongue to prolong my varicose veins thumping and if my husband wants to leave give me a at that someone bumped into spilled a drink Dawn my and i swallowed the As i ran to the private hedge to spit up 1 noted my husband was right behind it was apparent then that god worked in it is my husband who wants to leave a party so he got the idea to devise series at signals to Tell me when it is time to move How can you Tell u your husband wants to leave a party when you hear a car pulling out at the driveway and its when he starts making necklaces out of the raw when he disappears from he roam and changes to his a Jamas and 4when he starts emptying the ashtrays and putting the dog out and checking and he int the when he turns to the dog and i dont believe weve when his face Breaks out in a Chip dip when he whispers in your i think i hear my Mother and be lives when Hes staring intently at the to set and its snowing teat when he asks a guest in a loud voice where she buys when he takes the drink out of your hangs your handbag Over your puts your coat Over your shoulder and Ermas on a subtlety Hes right behind a bar Stool proposition and a Bat you get the it works both the other night i saw him engaged in a Long conversation with a Well stacked t spilled a drink Down Bis coat and god works in strange