"Opie" Almost Was Jewish
A reader tells how a classic TV show
was changed to reflect family values
by Hollywood Veteran
(henrymakow.com)
I’ve been casting commercials in Los Angeles for years. It was probably in 1977 that I met Ron Howard’s father Rance.
Decades ago he told me a little story of a water-shed moment in Hollywood history. Ron Howard had been cast to play little Opie Taylor. Rance was at the “table read” with his son as they ran the lines.
(Ron Howard as Opie Taylor. Howard is a successful movie director today.)
It was a Danny Thomas Production and the writers were a bunch of imported New Yorkers (like Everett Greenbaum whom I knew and loved).
Little Opie was written as a wise-cracking little Weisenheimer….. (a tried-and-true dynamic in Hollywood)
At lunch break Rance cautiously approached the producer.
“I may be way out of line here”, he started… “….but in Duncan Oklahoma… and Ardmore…. allowing a son to be disrespectful like that is a sure sign of bad parenting….and just doesn’t read true.”
The Creatives confabbed a while, took the advice to heart, and the change created an enduring piece of legitimate Americana.
My own father, from Guthrie, OK had a German mother and I was not allowed to call him “dad”. Too informal. It was either “father” or “father, sir”. Oh, those Germanic peoples!
I wish I could better articulate the nuanced and heartfelt relationship which was subsequently developed between Sheriff Andy, a single-parent, and his boy Opie.
I tried to be a smart ass growing up, and my father whooped it out of me. It has returned with a vengeance….but all sublimated-like.
Source: http://henrymakow.com/2013/07/an-american-moment.html
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