Comrade Howard?

Every time I read about a Ron Howard film, specifically about his eternal optimism, I find myself contemplating the possibility that Howard was born too late and in the wrong country because I think that he would have done well within the confines of Socialst Realism. Once the American individualism was beaten out of him. Otherwise, yeah. Tovarishch Howard would have been competing with Grigoriev for Stalin's attentions.