Okay, so I've had more time to ponder the Partridge Family reunion's point and impact. As Barbara and I noticed in my previous post, Susan Dey is the one getting the headlines over this reunion. The internets are all abuzz wondering why she was absent.
Well, of course, that's what the 'news' will be. What else was said during those short segments on Today that would interest anyone? A lot more interesting to wonder about what's NOT being said...By the way, it's intriguing to see how 'news' tidbits from a Today show propagate over the Internet - content is just pilfered from one site to the next - I scanned dozens of Google page results to find very little original content.
Just curious as to why no one mentioned that the series was available on DVD or that all the albums had been re-released as CDs (or did I miss this?). Guess none of them are making any dough off the merchandise? I also noticed that David didn't mention that possible movie to start in April.
YouTube will probably give us a better idea of the reunion's impact. Will viewership and comments increase for PF videos? If this "reunion" rekindled fond enough memories for people to reacquaint themselves with the show and music, it's done its job, I guess. IMHO, both the show and the music have held up extremely well over the years (or maybe I'm just deathly allergic to reality TV and today's music) - it would be groovy if others discovered this as well. ;-)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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I've read a perspective that this reunion (and those like it) was really for all those who have yet to rediscover PF. I can see that. But it would have been a great opportunity for someone to mention the PF DVDs and CDs, like you say DD.
That is amazing to me that so much of the focus is on Susan being absent. LOL!
I was not surprised to see David and Danny getting on so well together. It's very interesting how we revert back to the roles we had as kids when in the presence of those we grew up with.
I was glad to see Danny not being obnoxious. I think he is really funny without being obnoxious at all. He doesn't need it.
I wish we could know Suzanne's take on the whole thing, but I guess that will not be revealed.
Some of the comments I've read about David I just don't get. I could see some of his self-promoting, the usual stuff, but why was reaching out to Susan self-serving? Honestly, I don't understand.
Pity they didn't announce a box set of the show seeing it's been 40 years.
I will never understand why people mock the show. There's nothing embarassing about it at all, it stands up well. My kids grew up on a diet of American kid's sit-coms like Smart Guy, Sister Sister, Sabrina, Keenan and Kel (juvenile and hilarious to kids) and they were no different to PF, just amusing family fun.
Maybe a few more people will show a bit of interest in PF and David after this. I cant be the only person in the world who suddenly thinks, hey, I wonder what happened to David Cassidy?! And then get hooked all over again.
Actually, today's 227 reunion, Al Roker was having a really good time talking with them and all of them are still working in the business with regularity and all had new projects coming up that they talked about. Plus they all still get along. Jackee was still so funny. The interview felt more easy today.
And the only cast members who didn't show up were the ones had passed away.
I have to go listen to Danny's podcast of his radio show this morning, since he hinted yesterday that he would be more candid than he was on the phone calls to the station yesterday when all the others were hearing him on the phone.
I think the irony felt for David's "talking" to Susan via the TV screen was because of how he spoke of her being like a sister to him and then people recall how he wrote about her in his book, which led to her breaking contact with him. Before that book she joined him at the MTV awards, and she had invited him to her wedding to her current husband, and she appeared on his This Is Your Life. Then the book came out a few months later and media were after her (as they were Meredith Baxter - who I remember did a talk show to promote a TV movie she had coming on but she was asked about David's book at that time.)to make a comment, which she wisely and classily didn't. That chapter in the book was what changed their friendship. So David talking as he did about Susan on Today Show was seen as irony.
Thanks for shedding light on that Barbara! I wasn't sure when that happened - if it was after the "incident" or some time after that. He claims in his first book that in recent years leading up to the book being published that they just did't talk anymore and that communications were terminated on her end. Maybe because she was now married?
Well I have to admit that I didn't like the kiss and tell on Susan Dey, the way it was written was bang out of order. He left that out the second book or should I say second draft, as it was mainly a cleaned up version of book 1 with new bits added.
He's so flawed really, he came across yesterday as charming (perhaps slightly smarmy) and a bit pompous and full of himself as always but you cant help liking him can you warts and all.
Is Just David another website, as I haven't come across that one yet.
"Second draft", I like that!
Yeah, he is British Fan. As much as it seems that he has contempt for fans at times, he also seems to be fully aware and appreciate what a huge star he was, and he kind of acts that way, even though he's not NOW. LOL!
I'm just glad he looked well yesterday.
A BIT pompous? Oh ladies, you are too kind.
Singmedavid, I really think it's disingenuous of him to say he doesn't know why Susan terminated contact with him and I think that's why his "public plea" for her to contact him is seen as self-serving.
Just David is a fan club that Tina Funk started for David with his permission in 1974 and its still going and I handle the U.S./Canadian side of it. We have a facebook page, but the way face book is the name came out as "Just" :-/ so I will put the link on here later on. But here is the podcast of Danny's show, and he is being Danny - tells how he really felt about how it went (some of which was felt the same by some on this blog!). So here it is: The Suzanne stuff is unkind though.
He talks about is in the 5AM hour first thing, and in the 7AM hour.
http://94wysp.radio.com/2010/03/03/the-danny-bonaduce-show-podcast-03-03-10/
Thanks again, Barbara!
About Susan, I can certainly understand her humiliation about what he wrote in the book, but it sounds like this started before that was published. Maybe she knew he planned to do that beforehand?
Perhaps David is being disingenuous, but I still wonder why she stopped communications before his book?
Singmedavid, from what I understand and I think Barbara confirms here, is that communication from Susan stopped after the book was published, not before. Did you read something somewhere that says it started before the book?
Yes, in his first book in the chapter about Susan, second to the last paragraph. Search for "communications".
If you can't see it, please let me know and I'll type it.
Ah, I see it now. You're right. Chapter 17, last page: "Don't ask me what happened between Susan and me in more recent years, though, because I honestly don't know. We just don't talk at all anymore. Communications were terminated from her end, not mine. I saw her a couple of months ago and it was warm but brief. No talk of a future. Only a past."
My theory: she accepted that there would be no romantic future with him and perhaps found keeping in touch a painful reminder of a love lost. And when he spilled all the beans in his book, that sealed the deal for her. She probably didn't forgive him for betraying his confidence.
It seems like the vast majority of people think the communications were ended because of the book and so therefore think that David's plea is disingenuous as you say.
But to me there is more to it. I can see how while David may guess at the reason for her continued aversion toward communications with him now after the book, he may continue to be clueless about why she stopped communicating beforehand. After all, he was oblivious to her crush to begin with. It may continue to be confusing to him, not realizing the reason for the initial termination of communication may be different than the reason for the sustained termination. Am I making sense? It is totally plausible to me that he genuinely does not understand what happened. It's even occurred to me that he was very hurt, maybe feeling guilty, and that is part of the reason why he spilled his guts in the book, trying to justify his actions. As I write this it seems like a stretch, but ... I don’t know!
The last time before the book that Susan and David were together was in early 1994 (about 6 months or so before the book came out) and she appeared on David's "This Is Your Life" in L.A. She was very caring towards David, so don't know what he meant by "warm but brief". I think she may have somehow gotten advance information from mutual friends of what he was going to have in the book. She even brought a gift for David to This Is Your Life, and she joked that she'd had it to give to him since the time they seeing each other in 70's.
Thanks for the information, Barbara! That makes sense then.
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