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From: Monkeeluvr@aol.com

I just heard on our local Kansas City radio station (Oldies 95) that next week
Dick Barclay’s (sp?) Rock and Roll Saturday Night, will be spotlighting the
Monkees.

Debbie

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From: Freddd73@aol.com
Subject: Micky comparison in Entertainment Weekly

Hey everyone~
Entertainment Weekly compares Micky Dolenz*SPELLED CORRECTLY!!!* to Matt
Stone, co-creator of South Park. The sentence reads:

Stone, with his raunchy sneer and exploding moptop, calls up the image of
Micky Dolenz starring in a road-show version of Hair, and, if anything, he’s
even more obnoxious than his partner-his eyes sparkle with delight at how
badly he’s misbehaving.

Although its a small mention…and about his hair…its a mention nonetheless.
Its on page 47 of issue #444 August 7th, 1998. Its on the first page of the
movies section with the review of BASEketball. Good thing my friends like
South Park or I wouldnt have even glanced at it:)

Andrea & Allyson
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From ???@??? Mon Aug 03 14:41:47 1998
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From: Freddd73@aol.com

~Hey~
My sis, Andrea, was reading Entertainment Weekly today & was reading the
video review & guess what they reviewed? Rhino’s DVD version of HEAD. The
article is on page 83 of the August 7th issue (with Hollywood’s 25 Greatest
Actors on the cover). It says:

“HEAD The Monkees (1968, Rhino, G, $24.95) The brief moment when the Monkees
were undeniably “with it.” Their movie (masterminded by Bob Rafelson and Jack
Nicholson, soon to deliver Five Easy Pieces) carried an anti-war message,
poked fun at their manufactured selves, and featured cameos from the likes of
Frank Zappa and Sonny Liston. The crucial difference between this trippy
artifact and A Hard Day’s Night? The Beatles had “Can’t Buy Me Love”: the
Monkees had “Porpoise Song”. As one of Rhino’s first DVDs (along with Walking
Tall and In the World Tonight, a making of Paul McCartney’s Flaming Pie), it’s
disappointing, especially since the company’s CDs are thoughtfully packaged.
Though the disc contains a clean print and a clutch of trailers, there’s no
wide-screen option, an inaccurate chapter index, and no audio commentary from
any principal. How busy can Micky Dolenz be? The movie: C The packaging: D+”

~Allyson & Andrea~

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From ???@??? Tue Aug 04 14:16:38 1998
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From: “kirk white”

Hello all,

As most of the news comes from USA, so we thought it would be nice to share this with you from the UK:

Daydream Believers is the name of the documentary about the 1965 Monkee Auditions.

It was filmed during July 1997 and was due to be shown on Channel 4 in the UK during November 1997. Then it was scheduled for April 1998. But was not shown.

Phillip Conn from the Principal Film company says it will now be shown on Channel 4 on Sunday August 30th as part of the Arthouse series.

The episode features interviews with people who auditioned for the Monkees in 1965, and including DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, Brian McClain (who later went on to the group Love with Arthur Lee) and Del Ramos (who played in the Survivors in 1964 with Mike – and then went on to join the Association)

Although they were not allowed access to the Monkees themselves to hear from them, the programme still sounds interesting.

Kirk & Sue
bandsix@globalnet.co.uk

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From: Got2havlov@aol.com

I was watching Pop-up video. David Bowie was on with the video China Girl.
Well one of the pops talked about him changing his name because of Davy Jones
of the Monkees.

Peace
Carrie

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From: monkeebiz@prodigy.com ( MAGGIE MCMANUS)

For the Monkees alertlist:

The new DVD releases of “HEAD” and “Elephant Parts” can be ordered through
Ken Crane’s Laserdisc for $19.95 each, a savings of 20% off the list price.
Call Ken Crane’s at 1-800-624-3078.
Ken Crane’s is also selling the “Monkees Vol. 1” and “Monkees Vol. 2”
laserdiscs at clearance prices. They initially sold for $29.95. Vol. 1
contains “Royal Flush”, “Monkee Mayor” and “The Christmas Show”, and Vol. 2
contains “I’ve Got A Little Song Here”, “Monkees At the Movies”, and “A
Coffin Too Frequent”.

maggie
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From: “Richard V. Burckhardt”

The new HEAD DVD is on sale at CDNow for $18.49.

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From: Randi L Massingill

There is a small article (and a couple of photos) on Davy Jones, Bobby
Sherman and Peter Noone in the Globe tabloid (August 11, 1998).

Randi L. Massingill

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From: Psywar11@aol.com

gosh, i was just SOOO super excited when i was watching the show Two Guys, a
Girl, and a Pizza Place on ABC, which is channel seven here, at 7:30. This
one guy is really happy, and he’s making pizzas and singing, and he sings
“…Mr. Green, he’s so serene, he’s got a tv in every room…” and i shrieked
and said (really loud) “Thats the Monkees!!!!!” If you can still catch it,
do!!!

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From ???@??? Fri Aug 07 11:37:20 1998
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From: SnapsMom@aol.com

The August 1, 1998 issue of American Way-the magazine of American Airlines and
American Eagle has an interview with Davy Jones by Mark Seal. The section is
Celebrated Weekend and is titled *Davy Jones’ Manchester, England.* There are
a couple of bio portions, but the majority of the article is things that Davy
recommends people do and see if visiting Manchester for the weekend.

Betty

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From ???@??? Sat Aug 08 16:10:23 1998
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From: “kirk white”

It looks certain that The Disney Documentary will be shown on Channel 4 on 29 August.

In the magazine, Select, it says that on August 29 they will show Hey Hey We’re The Monkees + the Arthouse programme Daydream Believers (about the 1965 auditions)

However when I spoke with Channel 4 they could not confirm this, saying that their schedule is only two weeks in advance.

So it is best to check the Radio Times magazine nearer to air date.

Also

A two video set is being released in Australia during August. Head & the unaired pilot episode. This was originally available as a freebie if you bought the 10 volumes of episodes. Now it is being made available to everyone.

The video system in Australia and the UK are compatible. So you can watch these tapes on a UK video.

You can get this two video set in the UK for �16.99 + �2 postage from

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From: “Martin Meulendyke”

I have a Nick at Nite calendar that shows a classic TV fact every day.
Today there was one on The Monkees.

“After the successful first season of The Monkees the actors complained to
the press that they werren’t allowed to play thier own musical instruments,
and threatened to leave the series. Luckily, the producers relented, and
the real Monkees’ music was featured in the second year.”

See, even nick at nite knows that The Monkees played thier own instruments.

Conicidentally today is also Charlotte Janelle Dolenz’s 18th. birthday.

PEAVE~pass it on~

Linda M. Jones

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From: Michelle Clary

The Monkees video,”Daydream Believer” will be on tonight at 6:30PM on
Vh-1.
www.vh1.com

michelle

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From: vixen

I don’t know if this is appropriate for the alert list or not, but I’d
thought I’d pass it on since someone mentioned the American Way magazine.

On the American airline international flights they do radio interviews with
the Teen Idol Tour and Davy mentioned his future projects. He said he is
finishing a novel, a “love story”, that he has been working on for a few
years. He said it’s going to be published next year. He also said he was
helping turn a novel (he didn’t saay which one) into a musical which is
also supposed to be finished next year. He said that he had rewritten his
autobiography “They Made a Monkee out of Me” as well.

He also mentioned the monkees movie, yet again. He had no intentions of
being in the movie, he has other things he would rather do.

Vix
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“Don’t worry, I don’t have low self-esteem, I just have low esteem for
everyone else.” -Daria

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From: admiralmicky@juno.com (Lenora M McCoy)

TheGist came up with this:

06:00pm Mon Aug-10

UPN-8 .. BOY MEETS WORLD …………………. 6-6:30pm … Ser/Sitc
“Career Day”. Alan emerges as the most boring father at
Cory’s Career Day; guest Peter Tork. CC, Stereo.

Of course, check listings for channel and time in your area. And
bewarned — Peter only appears in the first five minutes, before the
first commercial. Short but sweet. He even plays a little guitar! It’s
great, but turn the TV on early so you don’t miss it!!!

Lenora
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/ http://www.geocities.com/Area51/4401/
‘. .’ Fanfic at http://members.tripod.com/~Lenora_McCoy/
jgs / MonkeeWoman, El Bagpipe-o, “CrazyForMenInKilts”

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From: “Stephanie Kung”

In the August 7 San Jose Mercury’s entertainment guide (Eye), they have
a small add for the Santa Cruz Teen Idols concert. It reads “The teen
idols hit the sand. Jones was a Monkee, Noone a Hermit and Sherman a TV
star. Surely you remember?”
-Stephanie
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From: “Stephanie Kung”

In the August 7 San Jose Mercury’s entertainment guide (Eye), they have
a small add for the Santa Cruz Teen Idols concert. It reads “The teen
idols hit the sand. Jones was a Monkee, Noone a Hermit and Sherman a TV
star. Surely you remember?”
-Stephanie
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From: “J. & S. Harrison”

About 20 minutes into A&E’s Biography of Steven Speilburg.
Steven frequented the Universal lot in the mid-sixties, and
reportedly even set up his own office unofficially on studio
property.
Arnold Speilburg says that Steven had given script and skit
ideas for the Monkees and they give Steven no appreciation.
They showed a very early black and white picture of the Monkees.

Your Crazy (insert any word but “potato”) Jimmy Joe
from Oklahoma

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From: Gin329@aol.com

I was listening to “Spinner Plus”, an audio player with about 25 channels of a
great variety of music that you can download from www.spinner.com when on the
folk channel came a familiar voice – Nez singing Keys to the Car. What a
treat! Now I have to listen all the time to see what other goodies of the
Monkees they might have.
Happy listening.
Gin

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From: RoseBud183@aol.com

I was watching a repeat of the Rosie O’Donnel Show this morning and Florence
Henderson, who played Mrs. Brady on The Brady Bunch, came on and sang a song
with Rosie about being a parent. She mentioned something about”….wait until
she gets a date with Davy Jones.” (in regards to Rosie’s question of when she
should let her kids start dating.) It was a small mention, but it was better
than nothing!!! I was surprised because i had not seen that episode until now.

Love and Peter forever,
Kim

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From: monkeebiz@prodigy.com ( MAGGIE MCMANUS)

The folks who run Songwriter’s Monthly have announced that Peter Tork and
James Lee Stanley will be among the artists guesting on their weekly
Internet broadcast, “Words and Music”, in the weeks ahead. “Words and
Music” can be found at www.mediabureau.com every Wednesday at 10 pm Eastern
time.

Monkees fans have been asking about the Teen Idols date announced for Fort
Worth, TX, September 27. We’ve now been informed that the date is a
private event, a benefit for a teen crisis center, and it has been sold out
for two months. 🙁 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

maggie
monkeebiz@prodigy.com

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From: k8pilant@juno.com (Kate E Pilant)

I have been reading the book, “The Horse Whisperer”, and was surprised to
find that there is actually a Monkee mention in the book. The girl, falls
asleep with the radio on, and when the mother comes in to turn it off,
she realizes that there is a “Major Monkees Retrospective” going on.
“Daydream Believer” and “Last Train to Clarksville” were just being
played. It can be found on page 324 (Of the softbound, regular sized
paperback books), and at any rate, I found it quite interesting! NEVER
expected the Monkees to be in a book like that!!! : )

Love and Peace,
Kate

Peace = luv, grooviness and the MONKEES!!!

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From: Lenora McCoy

NOTE: All times Central.

For those who missed Pop Up Video the first time:

07:30pm Thu Aug-13

VH1 …. POP UP VIDEO ……………………. 7:30-8pm … Musc/Mus
“Teen Idols”. David Cassidy; New Kids on the Block;
Tiffany; Menudo; the Monkees. Stereo.

And for those who have yet to catch Marsha Marsha Marsha:

12:00am Sun Aug-16

NIK …. BRADY BUNCH …………………….. 12-12:30am . OldS/Sitc
“Getting Davy Jones”. Marcia promises to get Davy Jones
for the school prom. Stereo.

Lenora “Magic Fingers” Dolenz-Tork

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From: Carlisle Nesmith

in the august/september 1998 issue of “your company” magazine (it’s
for small businesses and stuff) on page 92 there is a full page on
Liquid Paper–“how the mother of a Monkee made life easier for
secretaries and the rest of us before the personal computer.” it
tells a little bit about the history of liquid paper and, sadly, says
Michael couldn’t be interviewed for the article.

peace and love,
carlisle
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we had never lived with doubt or tasted fear…

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From: YnrRhysati@aol.com

I was looking at my sister’s game, Tribond for Kids, and, lo and behold, saw a
question with the Monkees!
The game is were they give you three things and you have to say what they have
in common.
It said
The Eagles * The Turtles * The Monkees
And what they had in common was
They are all bands

A little mention, of course, but one nonetheless.

Peace and Luv
Firestar

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From: monkeebiz@prodigy.com ( MAGGIE MCMANUS)

Peter Tork and the Shoe Suede Blues band will play the following dates:

September 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 (every Tuesday in September)
at Harvelle’s, 1434 4th Street, Santa Monica, CA, 310-395-1676

maggie
monkeebiz@prodigy.com

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From: monkeebiz@prodigy.com ( MAGGIE MCMANUS)

The Teen Idols’ show September 11 in Portland, Oregon, is being held at
Oaks Amusement Park, and is a KISN radio station event, the “KIS’N THE
SUMMER GOODBYE” CONCERT. Gates open at 3 pm, the music starts at 4, and
Teen Idols go on around 7:30 pm. Tickets are being sold at all Portland
area Music Millenium stores, $10 plus $1 service charge per ticket. A
spokesman for KISN radio told us that they had originally expected Music
Millenium to take phone orders for tickets as well—Music Millenium
decided not to take phone orders, which left a lot of fans outside the
Portland area without a way to get tickets to the event. KISN has now
convinced Music Millenium to take phone orders at the following number:
503-248-0163. You can charge your tickets by credit card, at $10 per
ticket plus an $8 service charge PER ORDER (not per ticket). Music
Millenium will mail your tickets to you.

maggie
monkeebiz@prodigy.com

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From: r.anderson@usa.net

I was killing time in Borders bookstore the other day when I ran across a book in the photography section called Flashing on the Sixties by Lisa Law. The title is pretty self-explanatory. Well, there were a few photos from The Monterey Pop Festival and one of them just happpened to be the cutest picture I think I’ve ever seen of Micky Dolenz. It’s a closeup of him in his Indian headress.

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From: “kirk white”

Here is some more news from the UK that we would like to share with you.

The following is from UNCUT magazine, September 1998 issue.

Please note that at the end of the piece it says Sunday 29 August. SUNDAY is actually 30 not 29th – so check for yourself before you watch it.

UNFINISHED MONKEE BUSINESS

Stephen Dalton profiles Daydream Believers, a new documentary tracing the lives of Hollywood wannabes who flunked the audition to join the most famous manufactured pop band on the planet.

It was 33 years ago this month that an ad ran in the Hollywood Reporter demanding “four insane boys aged 17-21” to audition for a new TV series. The show was intended, according to co-creator Bob Rafelson, to “do A hard Days Night on television”. It succeeded in creating a wholly synthetic pop phenomenon, The Monkees, who attained chart success way beyond the hopes of their creators.

But the flipside of this pleasant Valley fairy tale is that 433 people left those auditions with nothing, and they lived with lost opportunity for three decades. But now, an enterprising camera team has tracked down a handful of these Pete Best figures for Daydream Believers, a highly entertaining documentary which finds most of these failed Monkees in surprisingly good spirits.

“It’s not a film about The Monkees,” insists producer Richard Sattin, who’s company, Principal films, made Daydream Believers. “It’s about the flipside of fame in LA. We usually only see a small percentage of the people who exist in that Hollywood media and film environment, but the vast majority of people are not known by the public. Whether they’re DJs, performers, backing singers or simple servicing the stars. Most of LA is working-class”.

It took years of archive research and political negotiation for Sattin and director Ian Macmilan to trace around 100 of the 433 unsuccessful would-be Monkees. Of these, they finally settled on five to feature in the film. Most work on the fringes of showbusiness, as movie stand-ins or small-time singers, and all five seem content. Perhaps the only minor casualty is Bryan Maclean, former guitarist with Arthur Lee’s Love, who jumped off the “runaway train” of drug addiction, found God and now makes “Celtic worship music”. So were there any candidates that Ian and Richard considered too tragic to include?

“Well, there were the twin sons of a famous Hollywood actor who now lives somewhere out in Palm Springs and, even in their mid-fifties, still believe that one day they are going to be the next Beatles,” sighs Richard. “They still play sixties pop songs in bars in the middle of the Mojave Desert. They are living in the shadow of their very famous father and for them life is a total tragedy – they’ve been in and out of hospitals. Hollywood Babylon at its weirdest”.

But such damaged souls, says Richard, would have put an unrealistically negative slant on the film. “It would have been unfair and a bit trite on our part, as Brits looking across to Hollywood, if we’d deliberately chosen people whose lives took a turn for the worse – for other reasons, not because they didn’t become Monkees. It would be easy to judge these people by our standards, but the whole point of the film was to try and judge Hollywood by the standards of the bulk of people who actually live there. That’s the subtle twist in the film.”

In fact some of the failed Monkees became runaway success stories in their own right. Rodney Bingenheimer, for example, who was later crowned “Mayor of Sunset Strip” by Led Zeppelin and David Bowie, made a record with Blondie and still hosts his own prestigious show on alternative rock station K-ROQ. In many ways, his legend has outlasted that of the manufactured band he once tried to join.

“Absolutely,” nods Richard.

“When we first went to film Rodney, he was opening a shopping mall with the Verve! We shot 20 minutes of The Verve and Rodney sitting on a podium-playing guitar together in the middle of the mall.

“Priceless stuff. Then we went backstage with them and you could see these guys, in the nicest possible way, fawning over Rodney.”

Daydream Believers includes ultra-rare footage of Davy Jones and Mike Nesmith auditioning for the show which made them superstars, and explodes several myths about The Monkees – most notoriously that Charles Manson tried out for the band.

The truth is that Micky Dolenz, in a radio interview, joked about the fact that Charles Manson was there and that hyped up the whole thing,” explains Richard.

“We found no evidence supporting that. But a guy called Bobby Beausoleil, who was actually one of the Manson murderers, was rumoured to have attended. There is supporting evidence for that, but nobody would actually confirm it.”

Well, the advert did ask for “four insane boys”…

Daydream Believers is broadcast alongside a more conventional Monkees documentary, Hey! Hey! We’re The Monkees!, as part of C4’s Arthouse series on Sunday August 29.

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From: SamIAm1313@aol.com

I was watching 2 Guys a Girl and A Pizza Place and all of a sudden one of the
characters breaks out into Pleasant Valley Sunday! I was pretty surprised!
Anyway, maybe some peeps over on the west coast can still catch it! It’s on
ABC.

Peace, Love, and Monkeemen!

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From: SnapsMom@aol.com

in “Old Things” a novella by Jill Barnett which is part of a 3 novella book
called That Summer Place, the main character (Catherine) mentions that their
summer house looks like it was decorated by James Bond and the Monkees. Her
11 year old daughter says “Was that a rock group in the olden days?”
Catherine sings the opening line from the theme and dances while the two
daughters look at her like she’s deranged. (I can relate to this story. )

Betty

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From: Lenora McCoy

Here’s the info from www.mediabureau.com

9/2/98 (10pm-11pm): Guests: Actor/comedian/songwriter James Lee Stanley
(from Deep Space Nine)
will be by… and if he’s in the mood, one of The Monkees might make a
special guest appearance. Plus the
“Artist’s Choice” segment featuring a song hand-picked by one of today’s
top artists. Audience participation is
welcome, email webmaster@mediabureau.com.

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From: SAMISSWEET@aol.com

I saw Micky Dolenz on the KCET station today. He was doing a telethon for
money for the station. Normally I dont watch those things but still I was
Micky so what the heck.

Samantha

(Los Angeles Public TV Station)

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From: “Kathy Brooks”

Hi,

According to www.clicktv.com, on August 26, 1998 (Wednesday) at 10:30 a.m.
(Eastern Time) on USA Network they will be showing the Wings episode with
Peter Tork.

Kathy 🙂

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From: AngelJM67@aol.com

Tonight on VH1 at 8:30 their is going to be a special called 90`s Teen Idols,
the program talks about different 90`s ten idols, and during the program, they
go back to the sixties and interview some 60`s teen idols, and they talk about
the Monkees and show a couple pictures and their is a brief interview with
Davy.

Tonight at 7:30 p.m. Daydream Believer will be shown on Pop up Video.

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Just thought I’d share……

CLEVELAND FREE TIMES [Ohio’s Largest News, Arts & Entertainment Weekly]
Vol 6, Issue 47 ~ August 12-18, 1998
www.freetimes.com

Article: “Debating the Greatest Films Ever Made” by Brett Sokol [pp 16-19]
Article Subsection entitled: “Some Favorites & Why”

“Head” (Bob Rafelson, 1968)

The only movie starring the Monkees is no mere rock and roll novelty act for
drug-crazed teens, but rather the most daringly experimental film ever
unleashed by a major studio. A circular/polygonal non-narrative “story” that
at first seems to be a hopeless jumble, then at second (third, fourth, fifth)
glance reveals a high degree of organization, begging the questions: what is
plot? What is linear? And quite apart from all that, it’s as funny as all get
out. No, really, I could watch this movie forever, probably will if I’m not
careful. Jim Henson once did a Head-like short called Timepiece. He got on
Oscar; Head only gets an asterisk as “that Monkee movie.”

Mitigating factor: I’ve only watched this movie while sober.
~ Charles Cassady Jr, Free Times

Photograph on the bottom of the column from “Head” ~ dessert scene with all 4
Monkees.
Caption: Davy, Peter, Mickey [sic] and Mike in Bob Rafelson’s trippy “Head”.

Giggles and Grins,
Peta

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From: SptmbrWind@aol.com

In today’s (16 August 1998) issue of my local newspaper,
_The Gainesville Sun_ it’s actually on the front of section D
the Monkees are
included in a front-page article about reader’s memories of live concets. In
the beginning, there is a sentence about Liberace, saying “..He was not the
Beatles or the Monkees, but he was an all showman, mezmerizing the crowd..”

(reprinted without permission)

THE MONKEES,
JACKSONVILLE, 1967
Monica Leadon Cooper of Gainesville traveled to the Jacksonville Coliseum
with four of her girlfriends to see the Monkees. The concert was big fun as
they joined a throng of 12-year-old girls screaming wildly through the strains
of “Last Train to Clarksville” and other Monkees hits.
“The whole event lived up to our expectations except for the opening act,”
Cooper wrote. “Who was this guy? He was so loud! And he kept throwing his
guitar after he writhed all over the floor playing with his teeth and behind
his back. Jeez, this was awful, so we all went out to get popcorn.”
When she got back home, Cooper recounted the story about this “irritating
music” to her brothers, who were awestruck.
“Monica,” they gasped, “that was Jimi Hendrix!”

The article aslo mentions The Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix,
Michael Jackson, John Philip Sousa, Kenny Rogers & the First Edition,
Louisville Philharmonic Orchestra, The Osmond Brothers, Lilith Fair, The
Beatles, Sister Hazel, The Who, The Supremes, and Elvis.

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From: “kirk white”

This was seen in the free magazine with Saturdays Independent newspaper 15th August 1998:

On 29 August it’s Monkees Night on Channel 4. The celebration kicks off with Hey, Hey, we’re The Monkees which focuses on the creation of what was perhaps the world’s first pre-packaged boy band. At the auditions, none of the hopefuls was required to sing or play an instrument and the band was selected by marketing executives. They still went on to be the most successful US band of the time, even outselling the Beatles. After that, Daydream Believers revisits some of the 433 unsuccessful applicants to the ad in the LA paper inviting people to audition for the band. One is now a stand in actor (principally for Richard Gere), another is a pool-table salesman and yet another is a swimming-pool cleaner who once “nearly” released a record. The programme also examines the rumour that one of the wannabe Monkees was a certain Charles Manson

Kirk & Sue
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From: heybert@webtv.net (Dewayne Matteson)

WGN in Chicago will have a story on the Teen Idols Tour in about 15 min.
sorry if this is to late for some.

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From: Godess395@aol.com

There was a comparison between The Monkees and Spice Girls in the Orange
County Times on August 14. (Front page of the Accent) The article is all
about the Spice Girls. Heres the couple paragraphs.

Do not compare them [Spice Girls] to the Monkees. OK, so they answered an
ad (“R.U. 18-23, streetwise, outgoing, ambitious and dedicated?”) And yes,
someone packaed them and sold them before they barely had time to share creme
rinse. And no, they did not play a single instrument on their first album.
But hey, there are different. They have wonderbras. And now they arre
coming here with all the hoopla associated with a visit by Nelson Mandela.
Who, by the way, is reported to have said upon meeting them: “this is the
happiest day of my life.”

Laura

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From: Giraffe173@aol.com

On Monday’s episode of Sifl & Olly, on MTV at 12:30, during the “Rock Facts”
segment, they mentioned Mike! They said to stay tuned for a fact about
Michael Nesmith’s mother. When they returned, Olly said that she was a Laker
girl! Sifl corrected him and said that she invented White Out (it was really
liquid paper,) then they argued about it until the next segment began!

Peace, Happiness, & Monkees!
Ashley