tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738048378012755564.post7213032639298847163..comments2024-03-06T03:23:51.904-08:00Comments on Surviving Middle-Aged Widowhood: Partridge Family RevisitedWidow in the Middlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598249263166943162noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738048378012755564.post-50901327559490362522010-03-03T15:29:44.194-08:002010-03-03T15:29:44.194-08:00ARB - Thank you for reading and reminiscing. It w...ARB - Thank you for reading and reminiscing. It was fun to think about how these sit com families may have been reacting if they'd encountered the loss of a loved one.<br /><br />wNs - As always, I appreciate your interesting feedback. I remember the embroidered jeans too. You are right that t.v. was and is now too, largely escapism. Loved the reference to Mike Brady living his lie. I don't have cable and miss Bill Mahr!<br /><br />CCC - These ideas have probably already been presented to the networks and nixed!<br /><br />Kelly - I forgot that we had to wear the pants under a dress too! Since my husband's death I am just so anti-unreality. I really think reality and comedy/escapism can be combined as it was done so brilliantly in the movie "Love Actually." But I know what you mean - sometimes a mindless comedy or romance story is all that will deliver. Thank goodness there is always some of that around.<br /><br />Dsn - Your ideas are absolutely hysterical! Sounds like you are familiar with these shows. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas and making me laugh so hard!Widow in the Middlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598249263166943162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738048378012755564.post-89769972048092712492010-03-02T23:33:02.936-08:002010-03-02T23:33:02.936-08:00I loved your new and improved realistic Partridge ...I loved your new and improved realistic Partridge Family. I would love to hear the kind of music they would actually create out of grief. I find it quite telling that Laurie could not be bothered to assist her mother with Keith and all his grieving children. I would expect that Danny would be a recovering alcoholic himself, and would spend many episodes trying to get Keith to a we step meeting, or at least to update his 70's hairstyle. The two younger kids, who nobody remembers their names, would have moved far from the family due to years of feeling neglected a rejected. Perhaps in the end Keith would meet Marcia at a bereavement group and strike up a potential new relationship. Because remember, you always have to have a happy ending.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02218009891182171803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738048378012755564.post-43854640185896236512010-03-02T18:05:33.986-08:002010-03-02T18:05:33.986-08:00Once again you gave me the giggle I needed tonight...Once again you gave me the giggle I needed tonight. I remember no pants in elementary school, but by the early 70's we were allowed to wear them full time. I can still remember having to wear the pants UNDER the dress when it was really cold. <br />The good old days of television when nothing unpleasant was ever really talked about or even hinted at. It was a different time. <br />Today everything is so in your face. Granted, it does reflect the times accurately but sometimes a pair of rose colored glasses would be nice. If only temporarily.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967278323581039367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738048378012755564.post-51951876462221323662010-03-02T17:16:08.678-08:002010-03-02T17:16:08.678-08:00I think you should pitch your TV show idea to a ne...I think you should pitch your TV show idea to a network ... seriously! I'd buy a ticket to that.<br /><br />:)CCCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738048378012755564.post-36771331779743547932010-03-02T16:36:30.142-08:002010-03-02T16:36:30.142-08:00i found it interesting that girls were not allowed...i found it interesting that girls were not allowed to wear pants to school in '74 in your town. my senior year in high school was '75 and our dress code was non-existent. we had 875+ in my graduating class due to the bussing. it was all the "establishment" could do to handle the frequent fights and riots. clothes were the defining statement. i embroidered and painted and beaded my jeans in an effort to be outside the box. i was the artist hippie. dress codes weren't even discussed unless someone was half naked. <br /><br />i knew of these family shows but never really watched them. television was strictly controlled in my childhood home so i mostly stayed in my room. i think back then television still tried to present small problems that could be wrapped up in 30 minutes. there were so many problems during that decade, as in every decade, yet still things were not addressed "outside the home." sex ed had to be voted on and permission slips signed for it to be taught in health class. addressing the trauma of watching someone die, facing the drama of divorce, suicidal children, alcoholism, etc. was still mostly censored. television was, for the most part, escapism. <br /><br />television today has reality shows like "Hoarders" and "Intervention" and all the other medical and special victims unit and criminal minds shows to pick up the slack for the voyeur of the human condition.<br /><br />it is an interesting concept to have a reunion show where the entire Partridge family has fallen apart and there are no quick resolutions. or to have the writers script the show where Mike Brady decides to divorce his wife because he cannot live a lie and to see how they write each family handling this new journey in the lives.<br /><br />still, i think it would only be what the writers hope would make "good television" and not sincere efforts to script reality. how can one television family be able to portray all the possible paradigms? it would definitely be interesting to see though, especially if they got Bill Mahr and Ron Howard on the same writing team.abandonedsoulshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06020499806998154330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738048378012755564.post-91477724498208121932010-03-02T13:13:29.662-08:002010-03-02T13:13:29.662-08:00I've been following your blog for a few weeks,...I've been following your blog for a few weeks, and this is the first time I've commented. I watched those same shows too as a kid, but I have to admit I took them at face value and never wondered about the back story. But I love how you've twisted it on its head! And it is great to see you writing with humor (albeit dark!) and imagination.... I feel for you and your situation, and I wish you all the best. --ARBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com