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| From | mkropp@comcast.net |
| Subject | Re: Monkees DVD warning (sorta) |
| Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:24:51 +0000 |
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Jeff - is that the same TV movie that was done by VH1 a few years back?
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From: "Jeff" <jeff.teez@comcast.net>
> Hey Gang,
>
> I recently rented "Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story" via Netflix
> and found it unwatchable, save one redeeming feature. Firstly, it's not
> a documentary, it's a low-budget movie with actors playing the Monkees
> and everyone else involved. I know, I should have read the blurb and the
> reviews much more carefully. On the other hand, in the "special
> features" section you'll find 3 long and very interesting on-camera
> interviews with Mickey, Davy and Peter (each of them alone, facing one
> camera with an off-camera, unheard interviewer) from *2001*. They were
> well worth watching! I just finished the book "Monkeemania: The True
> Story of the Monkees" and found that 95% of the information in the book
> matched up almost perfectly with the words that came out of their
> mouths in the DVD interviews. That was refreshing. Their stories fairly
> well matched up with each other as well. Good stuff! Just don't expect
> anything much from the "movie" if you're already fairly well versed in
> the Monkee story.
>
> Can anyone recommend anything on DVD that might resemble what I was
> originally hoping to find, i.e. a well done comprehensive documentary
> on the whole Monkees story, from first tv auditions through "Head"?
>
> Thanks!
>
> jeff teez
>
> (please, please stop the iPod posts, I'm beggin' ya ... )
>
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