![]() ![]() Acid Logic Genius John Saleeby - Sorry, Wil, but plugging your own stuff in an article is sleazy!) present in each and every one of my Acid Logic articles, "Crazy, Man, Crazy" Pod Casts (, by the way), and my Work for WLEZ FM (Catch me on line at !) just as you can hear Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong in every note of the new Justin Timberlake CD (Acid Logic Editor Wil Forbis - I've got a couple of CDs, too! I. Yes, it breaks my Heart that none of my Scripts will be brought to Life by Sherwood Schwartz's Stellar Acting Ensembles but the astute Reader or Listener will find the Voices and, yes, the Spirit of Bob Denver, Jim Backus, Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, etc. When I have completed yet another attempt by the Castaways to return to Civilization or a new plan by Greg Brady to Make It Big in the Pop Music Business I have become part of the Great Tradition of American Comedy the same way a Musician performing of the Classic Ragtime of Scott Joplin becomes part of the Great Tradition of American Music. Writing and Recording a new Episode of my Pod Cast is a lot of fun (And mentioning it in Acid Logic articles is a fuckin' BLAST!) but nothing equals the Creative satisfaction of plotting new Comic antics for Gilligan and the Skipper or those nutty Brady Kids. I may have Written tons and tons of articles for Acid Logic in the past few years but for every Interesting Motherfuckers or Motherfucking Masterpiece I have Written I've probably got a dozen "Brady Bunch" or "Gilligan's Island" Scripts. Yeah, man, I was into Schwartz YEARS before I even heard about Woody, Monty, or the Poon! That's why there is nothing I enjoy more than putting aside Acid Logic or my "Crazy, Man, Crazy" Pod Cast to pretend that I am Sherwood Schwartz in the Nineteen Sixties and Write a Script for "Gilligan's Island" or "The Brady Bunch". ![]() So now that most of my Internal Organs have been removed so the Syrians can manufacture Chemical Weapons out of them and everyone I used to run around with has disappeared into The Retirement Home For Broken Down Old Open Mike Night Regulars, I can acknowledge my debt to the Craziest Of All Comedy Writers, Sherwood Schwartz. But those were Younger Days and we were both attempting to be "Hip", "With It", or as the Kids would say today, "Give me five dollars, bitch". I don't know, I quit watching Television because if I ever see that guy's name on the Credits of some Network Series I'll go crazy and become a Homeless Crackhead) in which we agreed that the Biggest Influences on our Comedy Writing were Woody Allen, Monty Python, and the National Lampoon. ![]() Years ago Acid Logic presented a Discussion between Myself and another Comedy Writer who was contributing a lot of Good Stuff to the Site (I like to imagine that he is now a Homeless Crackhead although he is probably making a Million Bucks a Week Producing some TV Show. Motherfucker!" Actual sexual relations with one's mother are not required. Will cause a roomful of bar cronies to exclaim, "That's one interesting Additional memories by cast members Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, and Eve Plumb are also included.Sherwood Schwartz - Interesting Motherfucker - Acid Logic ezine presents.Īn individual exhibiting such uniqueness or individuality that he or she Schwartz, Sid and Marty Krofft, Rip Taylor, Bruce Vilanch and Paul Shaffer. The book features previously unpublished photographs, and interviews, including those with Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, Geri Reischl ("Fake Jan"), Mike Lookinland, Ann B. The variety series was cancelled after nine episodes. The book's title is based on the title of the 1975 disco song " Love to Love You Baby". ![]() Olsen also reveals behind-the-scenes accounts of the actors' private lives during this period of time, including Maureen McCormick's drug abuse and her failure to show up for taping of the show. Olsen details how The Brady Bunch franchise was taken over by the ABC network in 1976 and the rights were awarded to Donny & Marie producers Sid and Marty Krofft (without the knowledge or permission of creator Sherwood Schwartz) to produce an all-new variety show starring The Brady Bunch. The book asserts that the spin-off is noteworthy in television history for being, in Olsen's words, "spectacularly bad" in 2002, it was ranked in the top five worst shows of all time by TV Guide. The book's release also coincided with the 40th anniversary of the debut of The Brady Bunch. Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour is a 2009 coffee table book written by The Brady Bunch actress Susan Olsen with co-authors Ted Nichelson and Lisa Sutton, about the 1976–77 spin-off TV variety show The Brady Bunch Hour. ![]()
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