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Let me begin with a preface. Before watching the Monkees feature Head (1968), I knew virtually nothing about the band. I knew they had a TV show, I knew they were modeled after the Beatles. Yet, my generation had MTV's "2Ge+Her" when it came to a fictional pop band packaged for our amusement. While the Monkees were undoubtedly an influence upon them, the intricacies of that influence escaped most of us. I was drawn to Head because of the talent behind the camera: it was co-written by Jack Nicholson and marked the feature debut of Rafelson, who would direct Five Easy Pieces (1970) two years later. Yet, the Monkees are inseparable from Rafelson's career, who used his revenues from the show, along with those of partners Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner, to form Bbs Productions. Bbs, the subject of the recently released "America Lost and Found: The Bbs Story...
Let me begin with a preface. Before watching the Monkees feature Head (1968), I knew virtually nothing about the band. I knew they had a TV show, I knew they were modeled after the Beatles. Yet, my generation had MTV's "2Ge+Her" when it came to a fictional pop band packaged for our amusement. While the Monkees were undoubtedly an influence upon them, the intricacies of that influence escaped most of us. I was drawn to Head because of the talent behind the camera: it was co-written by Jack Nicholson and marked the feature debut of Rafelson, who would direct Five Easy Pieces (1970) two years later. Yet, the Monkees are inseparable from Rafelson's career, who used his revenues from the show, along with those of partners Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner, to form Bbs Productions. Bbs, the subject of the recently released "America Lost and Found: The Bbs Story...
- 12/7/2010
- by Drew Morton
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