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From the Index… The T’s – “Why The Monkees Matter”

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Tayback, Vic  21, 70, 73

Taylor, Rip  92

Teen Wolf  114

Television Parts  155

Temple, Shirley  13

Ten Little Indians  113

That Girl  13, 55

That Was The Week That Was  46, 113

30 Rock  109

Thriller  117

Tick, The  155

Tiger Beat  124

Tinker, Grant  96

Tolkien, J.R.R.  31

“Too Many Girls”  77, 88, 98, 116, 132

Tootsie  111

Top of the Pops  66

Tork, Peter  2, 3, 6-7, 10, 14, 21-22, 24-27, 29-37, 39-41, 45, 47, 50, 52, 55, 59-63, 65, 69-70, 72-76, 78, 80-81, 87-93, 95-100, 103-104, 107-109, 111-112, 115, 118, 120-121, 123-129, 132, 134-138, 140, 142-145, 148-149, 151-152, 154-156

Transcendental Meditation  32

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The  91

Trillin, Calvin  113

Truffaut, Francois  43

Tubor, Morton  96

Tucker, Larry  27, 44, 46, 57, 84

Tuesdays with Morrie  133

Turteltaub, Saul  113

Turtles, The  152

TV Guide  17, 83, 89, 144

Twain, Mark  112

26th Amendment  156

Twilight Zone, The  84

Two and a Half Men  53

 
 

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Why are we still talking about The Monkees? from An Interview with Dr. Rosanne Welch, Author of “Why The Monkees Matter” on the Zilch Podcast [Audio]

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Feminist ideology could not be any more prominent than the opening line of “I Was a 99 lb. Weakling” when Micky tells his current girlfriend Brenda,

“You know, physical beauty isn’t enough.  I guess that’s why I fell in love with you, Brenda. I wanted a girl with some intelligence.”   

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Losing Minor Characters and Adapting The Godfather from A History of the Art of Adaptation [Video] (0:40)

You Can Please Some of the People Some of the Time… None of the People All of the Time: A History of the Art of Adaptation in Movies like Dune, The Godfather, Harry Potter and More!

Dr. Rosanne Welch speaks on A History of the Art of Adaptation in Movies like Dune, The Godfather, Harry Potter and More! at the California State University, Fullerton Library

Part of the program series for Dune by Frank Herbert: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

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Transcript:

He falls in love with Lucy and they have this whole relationship and there’s a whole little discussion about how big penises are and whether or not their useful and what’s wrong with her and there’s an operation and it’s very — it’s very sexual. It’s not something that’s ever going to make it in the movie, right, for 2 reasons. The sexual content and it’s a minor character compared to the family — the Corleones — so we have to get rid of somebody. Right? So we lose Lucy. She’s a really interesting story thought. I remember being really, really into that. Of course, I didn’t quote understand they were telling me when I was ten, but of well.  

About this talk

Dr. Rosanne Welch (RTVF) speaks on the craft of history of film adaptations from the controversy of the silent film Birth of a Nation (protested by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1915) to Breakfast at Tiffany’s (to which author Truman Capote famously said, “The only thing left from the book is the title”) to The Godfather . Naturally, the behemoth in adaptation – Harry Potter (which depended on the relationship created by adapter Steve Kloves and author J.K. Rowling) will be discussed, as will the subject of this month’s celebration: Dune.

Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm

About Dr. Rosanne Welch

Dr. Rosanne Welch is a professor in the Low Residency MFA in Screenwriting Program from Stephens College, California State University, Fullerton, Mount San Antonio Community College and Cal Poly Pomona.  In 2007, she graduated with her Ph.D. in 20th Century U.S./Film History from Claremont Graduate University.  She graduated with her M.A. in 20th Century United States History from California State University, Northridge in 2004.

Welch is also a television writer/producer with credits for Beverly Hills 90210 , CBS’s Emmy winning Picket Fences and Touched By An Angel . She also writes and hosts her own podcasts on 3rdPass.media, her first one titled “Mindful(I) Media with Dr. Rosanne Welch.”

Her upcoming book, “Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture” will be published in Fall 2016

Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work and Kids and The Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space are two books she has written. Los Angeles Times and the Journal of Screenwriting hold some of her published articles.

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From the Index… The S’s – “Why The Monkees Matter”

Wonder what and who I mentioned in “Why The Monkees Matter”? Check out these index entries!

Sager, Carole Bayer  53

“Salesman”  30

Sandoval, Andrew  7, 40

Sammy Davis Jr. Show, The  68

Sanford and Son  53, 117

Sanford, Lee  115

Sargent, Herbert  113

Saturday Night Live  113

“Saturday’s Child”  79

Sawyer, Diane  130-131

Schlitt, Robert (Bob)  20, 29, 50, 58, 63, 65, 86-87, 89, 126

Schisgal, Murray  112

Schneider, Bert  24, 44-47, 84, 94, 97, 104, 115, 127, 146

Schultz, Charles  69

Scooby Doo  49

Secret Life of the American Teenager, The  22

Seeger, Pete  34, 40

Seinfeld, Jerry  121, 145

Selleck, Tom  119

Seneca Falls Convention  56

Sergeant Bilko  72

Seventh Heaven  155

77 Sunset Strip  15-16, 105

Sex and the City  65

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band  7, 19, 24, 135

Shaw, Reta  77-78

“She Hangs Out”  148

Shepherd, Gerald  97-98

Sherman, Bobby  130-132, 151

Shindell, Richard  149

Shindig  19, 122, 132

Silverman, Treva  40, 50-52, 56, 70, 78-80, 91, 101-102, 113, 126, 135, 137

Simpsons, The  154

Sinatra, Frank  8, 49

Singer, Alex  98

16Magazine  136

Smalls, Charlie  69

Smith, Will  8

Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The  6, 20, 34

“So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star”  148, 151

Solid Gold Cadillac  105

Some Like It Hot  87, 111

“Some Like It Lukewarm”  63, 65, 66, 69, 110-112,

“Sometime in the Morning”  21, 39, 63

“The Son of a Gypsy”  78, 132, 136

Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, The  20

Soprano’s The  72

Sotomayor, Sonya  6

Spencer, Alfred E.  105

Spitting Image  154

Splendor in the Grass  17

Spongebob Squarepants  155

“The Spy Who Came In From The Cool”  38, 78, 86, 90, 114, 126

Smith, Roger  15

Star Trek  68, 79, 114, 131, 139, 152-153

Star Trek: The Next Generation  107

Starr, Ringo  125, 154

Steinbeck, John  115

Steinem, Gloria  113

Stevens, Connie  15

Stills, Stephen  36, 123, 148

Stipe, Michael  149

Stone Poneys  89

Stonewall Riots  26

Streets of San Francisco, The  105

“Success Story”  20, 35, 54, 98, 109, 117, 137

Summer Stock  105

Sunset Boulevard Riots  13, 36, 39, 69

Swan Lake  91

Switch  119

Sylvester, Ward  47, 51, 91, 118, 124, 135, 139

 
 

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Un-censored Topics on The Monkees from 1960’s TV Censorship and The Monkees with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (0:54)

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“1960s TV Censorship and The Monkees” gives a brief overview of where censorship standards were in the era – and how The Monkees pushed the envelope with its mentions of the Vietnam War – and Sunset Strip riots – and even with the outrageous storytelling behind “Frodis Caper”, the episode that celebrated the saving of an alien plant that very closely resembled a marijuana plant…  

Writer Treva Silverman said the staff got away with such jokes because the network executives were just old enough not to understand any of the references.
Presented at Stephens College MFA in Screenwriting classes on Friday, August 5, 2016

Transcript:

…but notice, we all know the story. You weren’t allowed to show married people in the same bed, because it might mean they’re having sex. You didn’t do that until The Brady Bunch. They’re the first married couple on television to sleep in the same double bed. Which I think is funny. My guys slept in separate beds in some episodes, but slept together when they were on vacation and nobody batted an eye about four guys living in the same…who knows, right?

So, what’s interesting about what is and isn’t censored on The Monkees. They got away with a lot. They talked about anti-war things. They were very anti-authority. Anti-materialism. That hippie attitude of “‘It’s not the stuff. It’s about your person.” They brought eastern philosophies and Buddhist chanting into mainstream television and, of course, you noticed, they wore very androgynous, hippie, strangely un-gendered clothing which nobody quite understood. So they go away with a lot of stuff.


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About Dr. Rosanne Welch

Dr. Rosanne Welch is a professor in the Low Residency MFA in Screenwriting Program from Stephens College, California State University, Fullerton, Mount San Antonio Community College and Cal Poly Pomona.  In 2007, she graduated with her Ph.D. in 20th Century U.S./Film History from Claremont Graduate University.  She graduated with her M.A. in 20th Century United States History from California State University, Northridge in 2004.

Welch is also a television writer/producer with credits for Beverly Hills 90210 , CBS’s Emmy winning Picket Fences and Touched By An Angel . She also writes and hosts her own podcasts on 3rdPass.media, her first one titled “Mindful(I) Media with Dr. Rosanne Welch.”

Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work and Kids and The Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space are two books she has written. Los Angeles Times and the Journal of Screenwriting hold some of her published articles.

Dr. Rosanne Welch Web Site and Blog

Follow Dr. Welch on Twitter

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Quotes from “Why The Monkees Matter” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 37 in a series – Studying before boys

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Monkees quote 37

When Vanessa’s interest in Davy keeps her out late the night before her history final, her mother advises, “Haven’t you been spending too much time with that boy?  When you should have been studying.” Only 42% of female high school graduates attended college in 1966. Vanessa’s mother exhibits feminist ideology in prioritizing education over husband-seeking, which would require the opposite – spending more time with a boy than with her studies.  

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