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From the Index… The S’s – “Why The Monkees Matter”
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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.
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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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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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More On Women and Adapting The Godfather from A History of the Art of Adaptation [Video] (0:53)
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:
But what is really interesting about her storyline is, they move her to Las Vegas when they are going to start getting embedded in Vegas and when they want to run a casino they need someone whose name is on the liquor license who doesn’t have a criminal past. So she becomes that person for them at the casino. So she moves up in management as a woman in the 60s and early 70’s who’s doing this high-level job which shocks everybody. And she’s lonely because she misses Sonny. So along the way she falls in love with Jules Segal, who’s a Jewish doctor who used to work in New York but got busted by the cops for providing abortions — this is before Roe vs. Wade, so it’s illegal — so Michael Corleone saves him form his legal entanglement by moving him to Vegas, making him the doctor at the casino to take care of rich women who have problems they come to Vegas to take care of that we don’t discuss.
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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Photo: “Women Write Now: Breaking Barriers In Film, TV And The Web” – Tue, November 29, 2016
From Rosanne…
Here is a photo of the complete panel from this event.
The WOMEN WRITE NOW: BREAKING BARRIERS IN FILM, TV AND THE WEB — In order left to right: Kirsten Smith (10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, LEGALLY BLONDE), Gina Prince-Bythewood (Different World, Love and Basketball, Secret Life of Bees), Jessica Mecklenburg (STRANGER THINGS, BEING MARY JANE), Deborah Schoeneman (HAND OF GOD, GIRLS, THE NEWSROOM), Lauren Schuker Blum (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK), Rebecca Angelo (Control Alt Delete), Dr. Rosanne Welch
Women Write Now: Breaking Barriers In Film, Tv And The Web
As the landscape of storytelling on film, television and the web evolves and changes, more women are leading the charge in breaking down gender walls in the industry. Each has her own story and a perspective about the challenges that women face as writers and creators in the field.
The Writers Guild Foundation and Stage 32 are partnering on this special event, which invites writers to discuss their careers and their experiences working as a woman in the industry, from where they started and how they got their material noticed to what the future for women in media looks like and what inspires them to write every day.
From the Index… The R’s – “Why The Monkees Matter”
Wonder what and who I mentioned in “Why The Monkees Matter”? Check out these index entries!
Rafelson, Bob 24, 44-46, 48, 83-84, 86, 94, 96-97, 100, 115, 123, 127, 146
“Randy Scouse Git” 104, 127
Rascals, The 68
Rawlings, Dick 104
Rebel Without A Cause 13, 17
Red Power Movement 50, 67, 76
Reds 18,
“Regional Girl” 128
Reed, Tim 69
Rice, Tim 107
“Riu Chiu” 71
Robinson, Edward G. 72, 74
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1, 68, 149
Rolling Stone, The 123
Roman Holiday 58
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The 17
Romancing The Stone 53
Ronstadt, Linda 89
Rooney, Mickey 156
Rose, Axl 149
Ross, Stanley Ralph 97
Rostand, Edmond 113
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In 6, 20, 45, 53, 80, 101, 112, 153
“Royal Flush” 29, 56, 58, 86, 110, 113, 125
Russell, Nipsy 71
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Letting Actors Be Actors from An Interview with Dr. Rosanne Welch, Author of “Why The Monkees Matter” on the Zilch Podcast [Audio]
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Abortion and Homosexuality from 1960’s TV Censorship and The Monkees with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1:07)
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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:
I have Andrea Zuckerman from 90210 because when I worked on that show, I wrote the episode where — as a pregnant college student — she went to Planned Parenthood to think about it, but at the time, we knew she wasn’t going to be able to make that choice. We argued about it with the network, but then they said “No. That’s not going to happen.” And the real life actress (audience comment) No, she had the baby and lived with it — the baby. And it was because Gabrielle Carteris, the actress was actually pregnant and rather than write around the pregnancy they wanted to have it happen to her character So, this is the kind of stuff that changes with what’s allowed. Thirtysomething, which of course now I am moving into the 80’s, just to give us an overview and folks from last year recognize, the writer from thirtysometing? Winnie Holzman! She didn’t write this particular episode, but what’s interesting about it is this is the first time on television you saw two men in bed together, Post having sex. We didn’t see them have sex, but here they are. This episode was banned in several states in the South. They didn’t run it at all.
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Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
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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
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