In 1960, Howard was cast as Opie Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show, a spin-off of The Danny Thomas Show.

Howard's last significant on-screen role was a reprisal of his famous role as Opie Taylor in the 1986 TV movie Return to Mayberry, an Andy Griffith Show reunion reuniting him with Griffith, Don Knotts, and most of the cast.

During the argument between the Opie and Anthony hosts and both Jones and Kyle, Kyle denied claims by Jones that he was part of a bigger plot of attempting to discredit Ventura and also suggested frustration over the attention on Kyle being focused on the alleged incident rather than on his book in general.

On March 22, 2006, while Harry Shearer was being interviewed on the Opie and Anthony Radio Show about Spinal Tap, he stated the following: " Well, Michael McKean had been in a band called ' The Left Banke '.

In a 2006 interview, Zmuda told the Opie and Anthony Show that it was him as Tony Clifton with David Letterman, and that Letterman did not find out until years after.

* August 16, 2002: Opie and Anthony sponsored a contest where the goal was to have sex in notable public places, called Sex For Sam.

John Opie ( 16 May 1761 – 9 April 1807 ) was an English historical and portrait painter.

Opie was introduced, prior to March 1782, at the court of King George III, who purchased one of his pictures and commissioned him to produce a portrait of Mary Delaney.

In 1805, Opie was elected a Professor at the Royal Academy and from May 1806 gave a series of 4 lectures which were later published as a book after his death, with a memoir by his widow Amelia Opie, in 1809.

Opie was also known as a writer on art by his Life of Reynolds in Wolcot's edition of Matthew Pilkington's " A Dictionary of Painters " and his Letter on the Cultivation of the Fine Arts in England, in which he advocated the formation of a national gallery,

Opie died in April 1807, aged 46, at his home in Berners Street, and was buried at St Paul's Cathedral, in the crypt next to Joshua Reynolds, as he had wished.

Amelia Opie, née Alderson ( 12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853 ), was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through 1828.

Ms. Opie was said to retain her vivacity to the last.

His film MirrorMask was nominated for the William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie, the other nominated films were Green Street Hooligans, Nine Lives, Up for Grabs and Opie Gets Laid.

The rhyming of " water " with " after ", was taken by Iona and Peter Opie to suggest that the first verse may date from the first half of the 17th century.

Roth's show was cancelled four months later and CBS Radio announced that Opie and Anthony of XM Radio would replace Roth on the stations that carried him, despite the irony that the two were fired after the sex act controversy inside of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.

Lisa Opie MBE ( born on 15 August 1963 ) is a retired British squash player, who was one of the game's leading woman players in the 1980s and early-1990s.

The theory that the song refers to the burying, perhaps alive, of children in the foundations of the bridge was first advanced by Alice Bertha Gomme ( later Lady Gomme ) in The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1894-8 ) and perpetuated by the usually sceptical Iona and Peter Opie.

Hot talkers Tom Leykis, Opie and Anthony, Mike O ' Meara and Adam Carolla were also carried on the network, but with format changes at those shows ' flagship stations and the end of the Free FM network that was the backbone of these syndication efforts, those shows were all canceled.

Dennis ' friend Stewart appeared in only a few episodes in the first season and was played by Ron Howard ( who would soon after become Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show ).

The film was nominated for the Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie, other nominated films were Lexi Alexander's Green Street Hooligans, Rodrigo García's Nine Lives, the award winning baseball documentary Up for Grabs and Opie Gets Laid.

Perhaps still the most significant work in the field was that of Iona and Peter Opie, which departed from previous practice in Britain ; following work by Dorothy Howard in America and Brian Sutton-Smith in New Zealand, they relied on detailed observation of children for their evidence resulting in their work on The Language and Lore of Schoolchildren ( 1959 ), Children's Games in Street and Playground ( 1969 ) and The Singing Game ( 1985 ).

Performing arts Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, electronic musician Luke Vibert, baritone Benjamin Luxon, opera singer Alan Opie and the co founder of and drummer with Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood, were all born here.

* Alan Opie, ( born 1945 ), baritone singer

* Catherine Opie, ( born 1961 ), American artist and photographer

* Iona Opie, ( born 1923 ), specialist in children's literature, and the customs of schoolchildren-wife of Peter Opie

* Lisa Opie, ( born 1963 ), English squash player

Catherine Opie ( born 1961 in Sandusky, Ohio ) is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography.

If Andy's wife died the year Opie was born, they may have been married only two or three years.

Opie is 6 years old when the show opens ( born in 1954 ), and it is more than likely ( based on Andy's testimony ) that Opie's " Maw " died at Opie's birth or shortly thereafter.

Andy would have been 27 or 28 when Opie was born in 1954.

Following this interview, Kyle called the Opie and Anthony Show to clarify what happened and urged witnesses who were present at the bar to come forward to back his claims.

Recently, Clifton appeared on The Opie & Anthony Show to promote a performance at Santo's Party House in New York City.

Within his intimate circle at this time were his best friend, Richard Sharp ( Conversation Sharp ), and the artists John Flaxman, John Opie, Martin Shee and John Henry Fuseli.

He married Amelia Alderson in May 1798 ( see Amelia Opie ) and they lived at 8 Berners Street, where Opie had moved in 1791.

Opie wrote The dangers of Coquetry at age 18.

" I looked like Opie ," Aiken said to People magazine regarding his appearance at his American Idol audition in 2002.

Iona and Pete Opie observed that, even at the height of the dance craze in the 1850s no-one seemed to know what the phrase meant.

During a 2002 Ozzfest interview with the radio show Opie and Anthony, Anselmo shared a story that, at the age of 15, he started a fire in his home to scare his sister but accidentally burned the house down in the process.

He was, at one time, a frequent guest on the Opie and Anthony radio program.

This led Iona and Peter Opie to conclude that they were three respectable townsfolk " watching a dubious sideshow at a local fair ".

Opie is currently a professor of Photography at University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ).

Sir William dying in 1772, Wolcot came home and, abandoning the Church, resumed his medical character, and settled in practice at Truro, where he discovered the talents of John Opie, and assisted him.

The cheerleaders and mascots were at a UCA Cheerleading Camp in Tennessee that summer, and narrowed the field down to two potential names —" Opie " and " Otto.

The broader English tradition of new clothes at Easter has been noticed in late 16th century references by Peter Opie, who noted Mercutio's taunting of Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet: " Did ' st thou not fall out with a Tailor for wearing his new Doublet before Easter?