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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | The End Times Are Here... |
| Date | Sat, 24 Jul 2004 05:06:36 -0400 |
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Saturday, July 24, 2004
Search on for new Partridge Family
By BILL BRIOUX -- Toronto Sun
You know the press tour is over when the Partridge Family bus arrives.
The somewhat battered, multicoloured school bus was parked outside the
Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to help hype In Search Of The Partridge
Family, a new reality show based on the early '70s series.
The premise: Original cast members David Cassidy, Danny Bonaduce and Shirley
Jones help conduct a talent search for new Partridge Family cast members.
After America votes, the new cast will shoot a scripted TV pilot and will
eventually perform together as a band. The seven-episode series airs in
America on VH1 starting this September (no word yet on a Canadian pickup).
Cassidy and Bonaduce, both looking trim and boyish for two dudes pushing 50,
met the press yesterday. Both have penned tell-all autobiographies, leading
to one question about Cassidy's romantic liaison with former co-star Susan
Dey (Lori Partridge).
"After the show ended we dated a couple of times," said Cassidy. "I loved
her like a sister ..."
"Well, that's gross," said Bonaduce.
The boys also spilled the beans about Dey's odd eating disorder. "One year
Susan Dey stopped eating anything but carrots," said Bonaduce. "The woman
turned orange."
Cassidy says he auditioned for the part of big brother Keith five times. He
feels sorry for today's TV newcomers who have to "stand in a room in front
of 15 or 20 people" and sway network and studio executives as well as
producers.
The Partridge Family isn't the only TV classic getting a reality spin.
Earlier this week, critics were pitched The Real Gilligan's Island, debuting
in November on Turner network superstation TBS. Ten thousand people from
across America applied to be either the Movie star, the Skipper, the
Millionaire or any of the other original castaways. Seven winners will get
dumped on an island with, as the song goes, "no phones no lights no motor
cars, not a single luxury."
The idea to transform The Beverly Hillbillies into a reality show is still
alive according to CBS boss Les Moonves. The idea was to take a real
backwoods family out of Carolina, load up their truck and move them to a
mansion in Beverly. Hills, that is.
CBS clammed up about the project after the South rose in protest (something
about being made fools of for gawking at indoor plumbing), but we might
still see a new Jethro and Ellie Mae out by the cement pond.
Finally, the press tour ended yesterday with a session saluting the 35th
anniversary of The Brady Bunch. Original cast members Barry Williams,
Maureen McCormack, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinland and Susan
Olsen were all wheeled on stage.
That's right, we're old. C'mon, get happy.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages
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