I was watching Dave Letterman last night, and his guest was Tom Hanks. Hanks was promoting a current movie (Larry Crowne) but got into a discussion with Dave about Ron Howard, the Opie Producer that he has great respect for and has worked with many times.
He talked about back in the day when they were working on the movie Splash, when Hanks was just a budding hopeful actor but Howard was already a respected producer. They were in Manhattan and it was the wee hours of the morning. Wanting to get way a little bit, Howard asked Hanks it he wanted to go to Dunkin Donuts. He said he knew how to get to one that was open 24 hours. (this whole time Hanks is impersonating Ron Howard which makes it funny). They get to the Dunkin Donuts and despite the 24-hour advertisment, it is closed for cleaning for two hours. They had walked quite a ways in the wee hours of the morning to get there. Exasperated Ron says simply "well that's disppointing" Ltterman roared with laughter as he considered how most people would have reacted and repeated "that's disappointing" . It was a funny story but a testament to what a cool cucumber (no picle pun intended) our Opie turned out to be. He didn't hold his breath or throw a tantrum on the floor...just.."well that's disapointing". The Untrained Voice _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
