Ayyyy! Fonzie and Richie Cunningham are back! Nostalgia is the theme of the Emmys 2024 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, and the most celebrated night in television — hosted by “Schitt’s Creek” and real-life father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy — had Ron Howard and Henry Winkler walk down memory lane over their 1974 sitcom … Read more
Private islands are never all they’re cracked up to be. At the movies, that is. A group of 20th century settlers find out the hard way in director Ron Howard’s survival drama “Eden,” a loony soap opera in the sand that premiered Saturday night at the Toronto International Film Festival. Based on an unbelievable true … Read more
Ron Howard won’t be voting for J.D. Vance in the upcoming election. The famous filmmaker, 70, has a history with Vance, 40, who wrote the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” that was adapted into a 2020 Netflix film directed by Howard. But now that Vance is Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee for the November election, Howard has … Read more
“Happy Days” premiered on Jan. 15, 1974 — and primetime television was never the same. The ABC series, set in Eisenhower-Era Milwaukee, materialized on the heels of the 1950s nostalgia craze generated by the movie “American Graffiti.“ The show revolved around the all-American, middle-class Cunningham family: loving parents Marion (Marion Ross) and Howard (Tom Bosley), their … Read more
On the morning of June 18, 1998, Jonathan Rosen received a call from his mom, warning him not to go home. An old childhood friend of his, Michael Laudor, 35, had been involved in an incident, possibly hurting his fiancée Carrie Costello. “Hurt her how?” Rosen asked his mom. In fact, writes Rosen in his … Read more
Ron Howard finally confirmed the longtime rumor that he once considered directing porn movies to jumpstart his filmmaking career. When asked recently by journalist Graham Bensinger whether there was any truth to the 69-year-old “Happy Days” alum crossing over to the adult film industry, Ron laughed but admitted, “Well, it’s true that it went through … Read more
Ron Howard is paying homage to his “American Graffiti” co-star Cindy Williams, whose death at 75 after a brief illness was announced Monday. “She loved her work and her art and gave it everything that she had, and she also always found her way to put her stamp on what she was doing,” the veteran … Read more
Hollywood may never have known Tom Hanks without TV’s “Happy Days.” The “Cloud Atlas” star, 66, noted on a recent visit to SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” that his guest spot on a 1982 episode of the sitcom led to him booking the 1984 film “Splash.” “I kicked Fonzie,” he said of knocking out Henry Winkler’s … Read more
Ron Howard’s “Willow” is the latest retro title up for a revisit, and not a moment too soon for fans who’ve spent decades clamoring for a sequel. The 1988 original was part of a spate of fantasy films of its time, including “Legend,” “The Last Unicorn,” “Ladyhawke,” “The Neverending Story,” “Labyrinth,” and “The Dark Crystal.” … Read more