Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, January 25, 1992 TAG: 9201250314
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN
Actor Andy Griffith and movie director Ron Howard - Sheriff Taylor and son, Opie, on "The Andy Griffith Show" in the 1960s - were reunited when Howard presented Griffith with a lifetime achievement award.Howard, who was just 6 when he debuted as Opie, presented the award Thursday at the National Association of Television Programming Executives' annual convention in New Orleans.
"This is wonderful, just wonderful," Griffith said. "I can't tell you how much it means to me."
The CBS comedy, set in fictitious Mayberry, N.C., began in 1960 and ran for six years. It remains popular in reruns.
Michael Nesmith was made famous by the Monkees, but playing a member of a rock'n'roll band on television was hardly the high point of his life, he says. In fact, he seldom thinks about it.
"My life didn't peak when I was 26," Nesmith told the Nashville Banner of "The Monkees," which ran 1966-68. "I look at it with fond memories. But it's so far in the distant past that I almost never think about it."
Nesmith, the Monkee with the cap and long sideburns, did not join the other three Monkees for a reunion tour in the late 1980s.
Nesmith is on tour promoting "The Older Stuff," an album of solo recordings he made in 1970-73.
Now that Gloria Estefan is wrapping up the massive world tour that marks her comeback from her 1990 bus accident, she's decided to focus on making a move into acting.
She's also making personal plans. Gloria and husband/manager/producer Emilio are the parents of son, Nayib, 11, and she says she wants another child. Estefan is not daunted by the "hardware" in her back since the accident - 16 inches of steel rod attached to her spine with screws. "I've been working out very hard. If I could withstand the strenuousness of the tour, I can deal with pregnancy." Her doctors have given the OK.