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The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron and Clint Howard. This is an engaging book by a pair of brothers about their family. The older brother is now an Oscar winner who is known to all as Opie and Richie Cunningham, and the younger brother is a staple at Comic Con because of his role as Balok, a citizen of The First Federation in a seminal episode of Star Trek. This makes the details different of their lives but the family vibe is universal.
Here's how Ronnie remembers the moment he fell in love with filmmaking. He's 5 years old on a movie set.
Yul Brynner's character, Major Surov, intimidates the hell out of his captives by taking a bite out of the shot glass from which he is drinking vodka. Yul, with his shaved head and severe features, looked convincingly fearsome in his Soviet officer's uniform. But he was a kind and gregarious man who noticed that I was fascinated by the scene and didn't want me to get any dangerous ideas. So, between takes, he invited me to sit in his lap. He held the prop glass to my face.
"Taste this, Ronny," he said. "This is sugar, not real glass. It's pretend, for the movie. You would never bite real glass." He encouraged me to chomp on a little shard. It tasted just like rock candy.
"Whoa," I thought, "this is amazing."
