Sonya guessed the Shakepeare actress was Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard's daughter, and she's right. Bryce is in an HBO Kenneth Branagh production of As You Like It, coming up next month.
Opie, Richie and all the people who are Ron raised his children far from showbiz on purpose, in Greenwich, Conn. Bryce went to swanky private schools there, and then to performance schools in New York and finally NYU.
I asked her if she went into show business just to rebel against her parent's wishes.
"Oh no," she said. "They were very encouraging of my ambition to be an actress. They just didn't want me raised around all the smarminess in show business."
There's only one thing wrong with Bryce. She's an Age-O-Meter, full-grown woman, daughter of Richie Cunningham, who is a lot younger than me. Oh, well. At least I get to talk to her.