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From: “Anne O’Reilly”

The next AUSTRALIAN MONKEE FEST will be held on September 20th (the 30th
Anniversary of The Monkees OZ tour). At the Frankston RSL, 183
Cranbourne Road, Frankston, Melbourne. Time: 11 am to 5pm. For more
details write to monkeesoz@hotmail.com

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From: “Anne O’Reilly”

The next AUSTRALIAN MONKEE FEST will be held on September 20th (the 30th
Anniversary of The Monkees OZ tour). At the Frankston RSL, 183
Cranbourne Road, Frankston, Melbourne. Time: 11 am to 5pm. For more
details write to monkeesoz@hotmail.com

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From: jgaffney@cvn.net (jgaffney)
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According to the Nick at Nite/ TV Land web site
(www.nick-at-nite.com/), This is what happened On This Day In TV
History:
July 22, 1969: Jimi Hendrix quit as the opening act of “The Monkees”
tour.

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From: Joe Leary
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Just thought you would like to know….
The Haverhill High School Marching Band will be performing music of The Monkees this Fall for their Marching Band Half-time Show at all area football games and Band Competitions in the northeast section of the USA. Haverhill is a city of 60,000 45 minutes north of Boston bordering the state of New Hampshire. The students and staff are very excited to begin rehearsals this summer! The shows music will include:

I’M NOT YOUR STEPPIN’ STONE
DAYDREAM BELIEVER
I’M A BELIEVER
LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE

If you’re interested ,I’ll keep you posted on our progress during the coming school year.

Regards,

Joseph A. Leary
Director of Bands
Haverhill High School
Haverhill, Massachusetts

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From: Thomas Nickerson
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Hi, I was listening to my radio, and I was about to turn it off to watch
some TV, and they started talking about the Monkees, I can’t remember
exactly what they were talking about, but it was about Micky being
interviewed, and saying that he was the one out of the Monkees that
handled being a teen idol the best out of the four of them (yes, even
Davy), because he could handle the money, because Mike liked buying
stuff, and Peter spent a lot of money on drugs and whatever, and they
kind of muffled on Davy .

Just thought I’d like to share that! 🙂
lusus

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From: jgaffney@cvn.net (jgaffney)
Subject: Teen Idols in Washington Post

To those it concerns, there is an article about the Teen Idols Tour in
today’s (Saturday) Washington Post. More specifically, it focuses on
Bobby Sherman and his careers as musician/actor and an EMT. I thought it
was an interesting article. It can be found in the ‘Style’ section of
the paper.

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From: Randi L Massingill
Subject: Bobby Sherman article in Washington Post

Bobby Sherman, Teen Idol To the Rescue
The Bubble-Gum Star Revives His Hits. And Some People, Too.

By Richard Harrington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 25, 1998; Page D01

Bobby Sherman, who once set young hearts racing, now checks older
hearts to see if they’re racing too much.

The teen idol from the late ’60s and early ’70s is making his first concert
tour in 25 years as part of the “Teen Idols” show coming to Nissan Pavilion
tonight. Since the early ’80s, however, he’s been an emergency medical
technician in Los Angeles and, since 1992, Officer Sherman, the L.A.
Police Department’s senior emergency training officer.

As plain old Bobby Sherman, he probably still causes occasional
palpitations among old fans who wake up in an ambulance to Sherman’s
still-squeaky-clean countenance.

Sherman, who recently turned 55, says his “comeback” is simply a matter
of timing. “K-Tel reissued all my albums on CD, I did my autobiography,
‘Still Remembering You,” in 1996 and after the resurgence of the ’50s and
’60s, it just seemed it was time for the ’70s.”

The revival of “Grease” and the glut of disco-themed movies, the popularity
of vintage sitcom and variety shows on cable, and the continued concert
appeal of classic rock and soul acts from that period certainly underscores
that notion. Still, Sherman says he had no dreams of a revitalized pop
career until the producers of the “Teen Idols” tour invited him aboard with
former Monkee Davy Jones and Peter Noone, titular leader of Herman’s
Hermits.

Even stepping back into the spotlight after so long wasn’t the nightmare he
anticipated.

“It’s like riding a bike,” Sherman says. “You don’t need training wheels
again. You kind of remember how to do it.”

The onetime high school football star never thought of doing it at all until
the mid-’60s, when he was discovered at a Hollywood party by the troika
of Natalie Wood, Jane Fonda and Sal Mineo. They asked young Robert
Cabot Sherman Jr. to sing, and Fonda introduced him to talent agent Jack
Good, creator of ABC’s rock-and-roll show “Shindig.” Sherman soon
became a regular on that show, where his winsome smile and fashionable
shaggy mop top made him a favorite of the bubble gum set.

Sherman moved up to true teen idol status in 1968, when he appeared in
“Here Come the Brides,” a comedy-adventure set in boom town Seattle in
the 1870s. He starred as young logger Jeremy Bolt, so often at
loggerheads with brother Joshua Bolt (David Soul). That television
exposure soon produced results on the music front: Between 1969 and
1971, Sherman had seven Top 40 hits, including “Little Woman,” “La La
La (If I Had You),” “Easy Come, Easy Go” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me.”
Concurrently, Sherman’s smiling visage peered out from lunch boxes,
posters, fan magazines and assorted merchandise.

“Here Come the Brides” ran for two seasons, followed by a starring role in
a 1971 “Partridge Family” spinoff titled “Getting Together.” This time
Sherman was more accurately cast as a songwriter struggling to make it in
the music business. Unfortunately, the sitcom was scheduled opposite “All
in the Family,” which explains why it lasted only half a season.

By then, Sherman was ready for a break.

“I’d film five days a week, get on a plane on a Friday night and go
someplace for matinee and evening shows Saturday and Sunday, then get
on a plane and go back to the studio to start filming again,” he explains. “It
was so hectic for three years that I didn’t know what home was.

“I was disoriented — I never knew where I was, always had to be
reminded,” Sherman adds. “But, in all honesty, I must say I had the best of
times because the concerts were great, the fans were great. It was the
proverbial love-in, but it just zapped so much out of me.”

Without retiring, Sherman withdrew. He’d built a studio in his garage and
over the years recorded scores for films and television shows; he would
occasionally make guest appearances on series like “The Love Boat” and
“Murder, She Wrote.” Having delivered his two sons,Christopher and
Tyler, Sherman was very involved in their upbringing. In fact, caring for the
boys, now in their mid-twenties, is what brought him to emergency
medicine.

“As kids grow up, they fall down, scrape their knees, get bloody noses,”
Sherman explains. “My ex-wife was very squeamish when it came to
blood, especially our kids’ blood, so it was kind of up to me. I took a
basic first aid-CPR class, just in case, and found I had a knack for it.
Eventually, if I’d be driving down the street and there was an accident and
there was no medical help on hand, I’d get out and, since I usually had
some stuff with me, I’d help.”

With more training, Sherman graduated from EMT (emergency medical
technician) to EMTD (adding skills in defibrillation) and then became an
instructor for 10 years. When the Los Angeles Police Department heard
about him, Sherman was invited to the force’s training academy and in
1992 became a sworn police officer with LAPD, as well as its chief
medical training officer.

“It’s a labor of love to be able to teach these officers how to patch people
up,” says Sherman. “There’s not a better feeling in the world than knowing
these people are out there, helping someone out, saving someone’s life.”

Sherman has even brought life into the world, delivering five babies in the
field. “It’s tremendously rewarding, which is why I always say in concert
that everyone should take the time to learn first aid and CPR, because it
works.”

What’s also working right now is the “Teen Idols” concept, both for the
audience and for their suddenly busy idols. Sherman notes that he first met
Noone while hosting him on “Shindig” and that they became reacquainted
when Noone hosted him on VH1’s early ’90s series, “My Generation.”
And it was a guest appearance on “The Monkees” that landed Sherman his
role in “Here Come the Brides.”

“We’re all good friends and we’re having a blast,” says Sherman. “But the
bottom line is the audience — they’re half the show, as far as I’m
concerned. It’s their response, their enthusiasm that makes it feel like it’s
1970. It’s absolutely incredible.”

It’s not as if time has stood still — no one in the ’90s is as naive as that —
but certainly it’s a way of conjuring up a more innocent era, right down to
the teddy bears thrown onstage.

“In a sense, audiences are doing exactly the things they did then,” says
Sherman. “Except now they’re bringing their families, wives and mothers
and husbands and kids, so we’re appealing to the entire family unit. And in
the wholesomeness of the show, they relive the past. They sing along and
it’s amazing — they remember the lyrics better than I do, sometimes. It’s
wonderful. Everybody, including myself, gets transported back to a much
more happier time.”

� Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company

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From: Rebekah Tatner
Subject: Monkee mention at Houston Zoo

At http://houston.sidewalk.com/detail?EID246%20
it has this to say:

<endangered species by hatching, raising and reintroducing the
Attwater’s prairie chicken into designated wildlife refuges. The birds
previously had not been on public display, due to the sensitive nature
of the project, but the success of the program and the urgent need for
community involvement prompted the opening of Attwater’s Prairie
Chicken Exhibit. Located next to the flamingos, the exhibit features
three birds and informs zoo visitors of the importance and plight of
this bird. The exhibit features a video showing footing of an
off-exhibit breeding area. (On one episode of “The Monkees,” Texan
Mike Nesmith urged viewers to “save the Texas prairie chicken.”>>

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There is a front page story on the teen idol tour in the Tuesday L.A. Times.

Davy does some further Mike bashing, but does not close the door on the
Monkees.

Check it out at
http://www.calendarlive.com/HOME/CALENDARLIVE/MUSIC/topstory.html

Jeff
Jeff Gehringer

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From: Randi L Massingill

the teen idol story is no longer at that url. It is located at:

http://www.calendarlive.com/HOME/CALENDARLIVE/MUSIC/t000066628.html

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From: MicPeMikDa@aol.com
Subject: Micky on Pictionary

Micky is supposed to be on Pictionary all this week at 9:30 central on ABC!

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OK, it’s not technically “Monkees” news, but it’s funny anyway…

Beatle Paul Joins the Monkeys

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/entertainment/e_online/story.html?s=n/eonline/entertainment/19980727/19980727002

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Sorry, the URL for the McCartney story changed after we sent it off, here it is:

Beatle Paul Joins the Monkeys

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/entertainment/e_online/story.html?s=n/eonline/entertainment/19980727/19980727003

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From: Michelle Clary
Subject: Micky on Pictionary:July 29,30,and 31

Micky will be on pictionary on July 29,30,and 31. Check for your local
station and time at www.pictionary.com

This is a website that will tell you who is going to be on:
www.bayinsider.com/ktvu/whatson/pictionary_rules.html

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From: “Valleri Callahan”
Subject: Monkees on South Park

I watch South Park all the time, and I noticed something interesting on
the “Conjoined Fetus Lady” episode. When Kyle’s mom is showing the kids
that book about conjoined twin myslexia, I caught the picture when they
showed the page. It’s Micky and Mike’s heads put together! Next time
they re run that episode (it should be on saturday at 10 PM), watch it
very closely.

Peace &love,
Valleri Callahan

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From: K10209@aol.com
Subject: Monkees in Atlanta at Hard Rock Cafe

‘Ello!
Katie Jones here…..
I went to Atlanta this past week for a national youth gathering and we went
to the Hard Rock Cafe and inthe main gift shop they had a Monkees talking hand
puppet and a picture of Mikcy in his Indian Headdress and a Live 1967 record
=)
I about flipped!
Davy Forever!
hopelessly devoted to davy!
Katie JOnes =)

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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:13:03 -0700
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This article appeared in the Dallas Morning News on July 26, 1998

Former Monkee is a believer in intellectuals’ roundtable

Diverse group of thinkers put their heads together

07/26/98

Michael Haederle / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

NAMBE, N.M. – When some of the world’s brightest people gathered at an
estate in this rural mountain village for lunch and conversation last
weekend, they presented a scene of relaxed civility and erudition.

The guests studied an exhibit of photographs from the personal collection
of artist Edward Ruscha, then dined on couscous in a large tent decorated
Bedouin-style with carpets. Those who cared to were welcome to take a dip
in the pool.

Just a few hours earlier, the group, the 1998 Council on Ideas, had put the
finishing touches on a position statement responding to the standing
question, “What is the most important issue of our time?” By all accounts,
the council members didn’t have an easy go of it.

And presiding over it all with an enigmatic smile was Michael Nesmith,
philanthropist, filmmaker, novelist and, yes, former Monkee.

The Council on Ideas was launched in 1990 by the Gihon Foundation,
established 20 years ago by Mr. Nesmith’s late mother, Liquid Paper
inventor Bette Graham of Dallas. Every two years, the council gathers three
to five “thought leaders,” as Mr. Nesmith likes to call them, for a long
weekend to ponder the most pressing issue of the day.

This year’s council members were actress Jane Alexander, who chaired the
National Endowment for the Arts; Mexican theoretical physicist Ana Maria
Cetto; Harvard paleontologist Steven Jay Gould; Robert D. Kaplan,
contributing editor for The Atlantic Monthly; and Jessica Tuchman Mathews,
president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

“It was a difficult experience,” said Ms. Mathews, as she sat with a
slightly dazed expression at the table strewn with legal pads, pencils and
pens where the council members had debated. “It was difficult by virtue of
the assignment and by virtue of the totally different lenses most of us
have to look at the world.”

A few minutes earlier, Ms. Mathews had read the council’s brief statement
to a group of journalists and alumni of past councils, beginning with a
sobering observation: “We are living in a time of change unprecedented in
both extent and rapidity on a planet now so filled by our presence that
little further space exists to accommodate serious mistakes.”

Population growth, environmental degradation and powerful weapons raise the
chances for conflict, even as the information and communications revolution
brings people closer, the members noted. “More than ever before,” the
statement said, “we are truly stuck with each other.”

The panel suggested guidelines, including the need for a basic consensus
among different cultures, a healthy wariness of claims to absolute truth, a
clear understanding of history’s lessons and the exercise of foresight
based on better understanding of present trends.

Finally, the council called for new institutions bridging governments,
civil society and transnational corporations. “The coming era demands a
period of concerted social innovation and institution building – this time
encompassing all sectors – comparable to that which followed the end of
World War II.”

In a question-and-answer period that followed, Ms. Mathews explained, “The
central idea is, this is a time of extraordinarily rapid change, and we
tried to identify those things that societies need in a time of rapid
change, and there isn’t a lot of room for error.”

If the statement seemed long on platitudes and short on specifics, it was
about par for the course. The 1996 council proposed that the solutions to
the world’s problems “begin with the lifelong human capacity to enjoy and
share the process of learning.” And the 1992 council insisted, rather
mysteriously, on the need to “reinvent and celebrate the sacred” through
the development of “a transnational myth structure.”

But if the statements aren’t exactly earth-shattering, the process itself
seems to intrigue the intellectuals who are selected during a rigorous
screening process.

Invited to hear this year’s council give its statement were participants in
earlier councils, including political columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, Dallas
commentator Lee Cullum, theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman, USA Today
columnist Walter Shapiro, former NBC News chief Lawrence Grossman, artist
Todd Siler and N. Scott Momaday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Also on
hand was Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who first
theorized quarks as the basis of subatomic structure.

Ms. Mathews, whose expertise is in global environmental and nuclear
proliferation issues, was still processing the experience. When she had
first learned of her appointment to the council, “I was bemused by it,” she
said. “The description seemed so impossible. It was nice to be elected as a
thinker, but I didn’t imagine what would come next.”

The panel members were left to their own devices, it turned out. “As you
sit down with four strangers, that first step is like, ‘Arrrgh! What do we
do now?’ ” Ms. Mathews said. The “language gap” between professionals of
widely varying backgrounds made it especially difficult to word the
statement, she said.

Mr. Kaplan, who has written extensively on foreign affairs, acknowledged
the challenge posed by the group’s diversity, but he said they reached an
accommodation. “We really all came from different backgrounds, different
beliefs,” he said. “I think we reached a real medium level of disagreement
where we were able to hash some things out.”

He acknowledged that out of a collective sense of humility, the statement
was intended to be “minimalist” and that it perhaps lacked some punch.
“It’s a law of writing that a solitary person writing alone will come up
with a more powerful piece of writing than a committee,” he said.

Mr. Kaplan also said he was delighted to discover that Mr. Gould – whose
theory that evolution proceeds in fits and starts rather than in a smooth,
linear way has ignited a debate in the world of biology – is a font of
baseball arcana. “There’s nothing he doesn’t know,” Mr. Kaplan said
admiringly.

In her four years chairing the NEA, Ms. Alexander found herself in the eye
of a political storm revolving around the agency’s funding of art deemed by
some to be indecent. Representing the arts to a group of nonartists comes
easily to her, she says. “I’m glad someone was there,” she said. “We don’t
approach things the same way.”

Ms. Alexander agreed with the others that there was some difficulty in
breaching the boundaries of different disciplines, but she said: “It was
Steve Gould who reminded us there was more common ground in being human.”

For Mr. Nesmith, the prospect of giving some world-league thinkers a
devilish problem-solving exercise is exciting.

“There’s a part of the process that we call ‘the watch,’ ” he said while
sitting on a patio and sipping ice water. “One of us sits outside the door
within earshot and listens in. Being able to hear the process as it goes on
is always edifying, and it was particularly good this year.”

Mr. Nesmith’s hair has gone silver, and he has put on a few pounds since
his days on the popular 1960s TV show The Monkees. Now 54, he’s followed
multiple paths in recent years, managing a solo recording career, producing
films and music videos and recently completing a novel to be released in
November by St. Martin’s Press.

The Gihon Foundation originally was a grant-making entity, funding the
American Film Institute’s directing program for women, said Mr. Nesmith,
the foundation’s chairman. In 1989, he decided to shift the orientation.

He believes the Council on Ideas still preserves his mother’s ethic of
“entrepreneurial philanthropy” – a sense of investing in ideas that yield a
public good.

Mr. Nesmith readily admits he has no way of knowing for sure what the
council’s work will accomplish, although he will send copies of this year’s
statement to the heads of the various branches of the federal government,
the nation’s governors, the heads of Fortune 500 companies and the winners
of the Nobel, Pulitzer and Pritzker prizes.

“The only measurable input comes from the council members themselves, who
tell me it means a great deal to them,” he said. “They form alliances here
across disciplines that are difficult to establish.”

He takes another sip of his ice water. “I certainly have a feeling that
this thing is evolving, and it’s going to respond to nourishment and care.”

Michael Haederle is an Albuquerque, N.M., free-lance writer.

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From: HeadCoke13@aol.com
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Hiya-

For those of you out west, there is a show on ABC, called America’s Teenagers:
Growing up on Televsion. If you can catch it, The Monkees were shown once or
twice. They showed Davy and his twinkling eyes, and then later they showed all
the guys jumping from the eppy “Monkee Mother.” Hope this helps!!

Love To All,
Sarah

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From: “kirk white”
Subject: Head

This is for all you English fans who havn’t managed to obtain a copy of Head yet.

Head will be shown on Sky Movie 2 on Satelite TV in the UK 3 times during August:

August 4th and 13th at 4pm
August 23rd at 11am.

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From: JXNZ63A@prodigy.com (JOE JOSEPH D GUERRA)
Subject: Monkees mention on GMA

On July 29th, on Good Morning America, the fill-in host mentioned
that Larry Gatlin was going to be on soon and that Larry Gatlin had
let the host strap on his guitar and strum it for a few minutes. The
host mentioned something like, “It doesn’t get any better than that”.
The hostess said, “That’s right, you were one of the original
Monkees, weren’t you?”
The host said yes and then said that he had made a “monkey” out of
himself the day before and made reference to the previous day’s show.

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From: “Robert”
Subject: Monkees News: Head Now Available On DVD

The Monkees in “Head” is now available on DVD. Here are some details about
the video:

The DVD features a newly remastered full-frame transfer.

There are 20 chapter stops for the feature film itself.

The audio is 2 channel mono.

The DVD menus contain animation and sound. The menus are:
Scenes Menu – Which provide access by scene thumbnails
Trailers Menu – Which provide access to various trailers: “TV Spot 1”,
“TV Spot 2”, “NY Action”, “TV Spot 3”, “Theatrical 1”, “Portuguese” and
“Theatrical 2”.
Cameos Menu – Which list cameo appearances and jumps to the point in the
movie where the actor/actress appears.
Music – Lists all of the songs in the movie and jumps to each song.

Trailer Lengths:
TV Spot 1: 60 seconds
TV Spot 2: 20 seconds
TV Spot 3: 10 seconds
NY Action 2 minutes 20 seconds
Theatrical Trailer 1: 2 minutes
Theatrical Trailer 2: 2 minutes
Portuguese Trailer: 2 minutes
Rhino Records commercial: 70 seconds

The printing on the back of the DVD box mistakenly says “VHS hi-fi”.

There you have it, I hope you found it of some use.

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