Did we learn anything new? No. Did everyone play nice? Yes. Me happy. You happy?
Missed the grand Partridge Family reunion? Video here.
Thanks to Barbara-Just David for the podcast link to Danny's radio show if you want to hear him call in his radio show from the Today set. Listen at the beginning of the 5AM for the radio hosts talking about the reunion. Danny's first call begins at 6AM, second call at 7AM and his last call in is at the 30 minute mark of the 8AM section. (I confess: I still haven't finished listening to these.)
I knew the "post-mortems" on the show would be a lot funnier than anything on Today. This article is funny but the comments are even funnier. Might update this entry if I can find something else worthy amongst the robot-generated blog entries Google regurgitates.
Actually, I'm surprised at the number of snarkier than snark comments about the show's lameness. Has the public become so hip and cynical that they have to spit on the stuff they held dear as kids? (just realized I've used regurgitates and spit in the same post - is there a theme here?)
A lot of the "articles" make big news of Susan Dey's absence. Terrible wastes of keystrokes - I won't even link to them as I'm sure you all have better things to read. ;-)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Are you talking about the blog links off of google blog search that have Susan in the title like "PF Reunion without Susan Dey"? Cos I was going to put search link here that has the list of blogs.
Well, I use Google Alerts and a lot of the sites it comes up with seem totally made up by robots (or whatever engines that create texts are called). Anyway, this article about Susan Dey on Gather.com (new site for me) was a total waste.
If you find a particularly insightful or funny blog post or news article, feel free to share but otherwise, don't bother with a link to a list of blogs. I've read quite a few of them already and there's a lot of crap out there :)
The comments on here are funny!
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978079335
Actually, ya know Susan is smart - she was more noticed NOT being there!! ;-)
That above gather.com one is diff. from the one you had.
Thanks for the link. I'd seen it and found it a bit mean, actually (the comments were funny). Gather had 3 articles on it. You're right about Susan being more noticed for not being there. A Google search for the PF in the past 24 hours yields over 62K results with max 5% of that being original content in my rough estimate. About 80%, easy, of that original content has the "Susan Dey absent" as the slant or headline. David and Danny must be pissed :)
Wow, that article (thanks Barbara) was a bit spiteful wasn't it? I Susan Dey has been keeping a low profile for several years then I can understand why she would not want the attention now. I guess she wouldn't want to face David after he put her in his first book in such an ungentleman-like fashion.
I dont like the way they hinted David had no career after PF either, that's not true. He's had a great, lower profile career. Success should not be measured in terms of high profile. I checked out Patrick's site and he's done a staggering amount of good quality work over the years.
Guess David could have done more in the past few years if he'd pushed the boat out but we've all discussed this already.
I thought the show was great, but I haven't seen a reunion before.
I'm happy it went well on the day.
I quite enjoyed the show too. Nothing new, nothing special, but quite relaxed as it seemed. David of course repeating himself talking about John Lennon etc., but we all knew that, didn't we.
He wouldn't appreciate that I say that what caught my mind was the same thing that I thought of at the Meet&Greet in Glasgow 2008: he has such a beautiful profile! He looks just like he did back then, the nose, the eyes, the bone structure, the smile - gorgeous!
I have to add another comment: David is so utterly boring! He repeats himself, he talks so lenghtily(?) that he forgets what he was saying - and that's nothing new, that happened on all the shows I saw and listened to during his tour in the UK 2008. You who never lost sight of him: was he like this when he was younger too?
"I dont like the way they hinted David had no career after PF either"
But see, when David did his TV autobiog movie, HE HIMSELF portrayed that he had no real career after th PF. Even on those Behind The Music things, I (& other fans) supplied them with videos of the things David did after the PF, (Police Story, the plays and musicals, '85 concerts...all stuff in 80's and early 90's.) and yet in the final cut - which DC was involved in - the 80's were passed over. It went from PF, 70's concerts, "maybe" Police Story and then nothing until the 90's Blood Brothers onwards. In his TV movie there is a scene on a beach in the 80's where "David" pointedly says "I have no fans and no career (or jobs)" paraphrasing here. A lot of fans were like "WHAT??" Many of our fan club members were upset and livid - We got emails and letters like "Well then WHO did I go to see in all those plays 1980-87, it sure LOOKED like David!" So he himself stepped over those years in his bios etc. The only reference would be to mention that he appeared with Laurence Olivier - they had a cool plastic head with a video of Olivier's face projected on it - in the West End's TIME. So that is where the public get the idea there was not much after The PF for him until now.
I always wondered about that Barbara. I saw the tv movie and thought they just took liberties to make the storyline flow better. Still a snub to fans though isn't it? All the stuff involving how he met his wife Sue was changed as well.
David was doing quite well in England in the mid 1980's but he chose to go home. He could have had a good career if he'd stayed here a little longer, he was always treated with more respect here and we wre not prejudiced by the PF as it wasn't so big here.
MaeB, I have seen very few interviews of him from the seventies (there weren't hordes of "serious" journalists interviewing him, after all) but he wasn't as repetitive. He'd evade questions and wasn't that concise but nothing like this. There are a couple of clips of him on YT from 80s British shows and he comes across the same way: takes forever to answer a question, repeats himself, etc. The early 90s clip of him on a TV morning show recounting the Mark & Brian radio show story is excruciating. It's worsened in the last few years, I'd wager.
Britfan, you make a good point about him having a good career in England in the mid-80s. Why did he go back to the States again? I don't recall.
In the book he said it was time to go home and face his 'problems' i.e. having no home or career. I think he also said he wanted to get recognition in his own country. Well, most artists want to break America, I suppose there's more money to be had. I think if he could have built more of a reputation here then he would have had something valid behind him when he went home again. Mind you, the British film industry wasn't that great in the 80's so I guess there wasn't much scope for him apart from the music. He did come back here for the stage roles and he was with Sue then. But again, he wanted to get back and try to break the States. It's almost like we weren't good enough for him. OK, I'm sure that's not true but we've always opened our arms to David Cassidy. I know many of his fans (Then and Now) would love to have him back -so would I!
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