He’s just pissed because the other kids keep throwing stuff in his locker. 
That hardly qualifies. The man was knighted before Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were even born!
In interviews Peter Tork is the one who comes across as the most humorless. No idea how he views his Monkee days. I remember reading an interview with him in the 1980s when the Monkees got huge again and he admitted he was too stoned in the late 1960s to remember much about it (we’re not talking pot and occasional dropping acid but Moon/Hendrix type lifestyle). He also said when Monkeemania was at its zenith he lived in a huge mansion with sometimes dozens of hippies and hangers on in residence, and that between that and drugs he blew through his money so fast he moved straight from the mansion into a tiny garage apartment in a blue collar neighborhood and took a job as substitute teacher to pay rent and child support.
Davy may have cleaned up in recent years but he had a drinking problem for a while that caused him to do not nice and embarassing things in public (drunk driving, belligerent drunken interviews, tantrums on MTV [back in the 1990s he was celebrity guest host for some MTV talk show and obviously impaired and demaning to be paid]), plus he just never seemed particularly bright so when his looks faded (fast) he didn’t have a lot to fall back on other than Monkeedom.
Mickey seems like the one who’d be the most likeable. Other than Nesmith he’s the most successful post-Monkees (moved to England [where his first wife was from] after Monkee-Mania and owned a TV production company that specialized in commercials and acted in children’s shows upon occasion). Take out the huge booster shot Nesmith got from his liquid paper inheritance and that might make him the most successful, period.
Mickey Dolenz is a heck of a guy. I mean, I don’t know him personally, or anything, but I did listen to him religiously when he was the drive-time DJ on CBS-FM, and he was… I mean he was amazingly good. He knew everything, he shared it willingly, he got all sorts of insanely amazing other musicians on, and he interviewed them better than anyone I’ve ever seen. CBS screwing him over was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. I could not find a single bad word said about him… and CBS would have unloaded if they had it. He even took being fired on his 100th show with dignity. (CBS was changing formats and raped the station. If you don’t know, you don’t want to know: they took something that had tradition and killed it into plastic. )
Now that’s a stick.
I thought the “The Monkees: Behind The Music” was good. Explained a lot.
Now flash forward four years…
I’m surprised this thread didn’t get resurrected in 2012 after Davy’s death when Nez did go out on tour with Dolenz and Tork. By all accounts he enjoyed himself–enough so that he continued on with a small solo tour. He’s kept a low profile since then for whatever reasons–I think for the time being he’s content to live the life in Carmel and do his Video Ranch thing.
I’ve heard Patrick Stewart has a stick up his ass about ST:TNG.
Tina Louise left Gilligan’s Island with bitterness, and, so far as I know, never really softened into nostalgia.
See Post #74 if you are serious. (to bup)
Another divorce, perhaps?
Why wouldn’t it be? He’s on American Dad all the time, and that’s practically the same show brainsbrainsbrains.
Not just that, Jones and Palin never shut up about it. I like both thier history and travel series but they never miss an opportunity to talk about Python. Let it go, I am not watching this show about The Sahara to get an inside scoop on how Life of Brian was filmed.
I heard a lengthy interview with him recently in which he covered this. Part of his incentive for taking part in the recent reunion was of course money; I understand he has now finally paid off his third wife and no longer has a huge drain on his income.
But he said that the main reason for his change of heart was that he’s been in therapy in recent years and has made peace with a lot of things in his past. It wasn’t that he hated Python, but rather that it was a thing that he’d done and was done with it. Now he appreciates more the effect it still has on fans and as he’s less determined to disconnect from the past he’s more willing to do this sort of thing.
(That said, I think they’ve all pretty much said this was it. 45 years is a helluva long time to keep doing this material. Although I’m sure Eric Idle will keep trying to milk it for more cash…)
Think about being in your 60s and all anyone wants to talk about is something you did for two years in your 20s that at the time left you heavily in debt, artistically frustrated, mocked as a phony by the entire world, and typecast for the rest of your life.
I think I read that she was under the impression that she was to be the star of the show.
You’d think the title would have been a clue.
That’s pretty much exactly what Sherwood Schwartz said on one of those ‘Behind the Scenes’-type shows.
^ She apparently blames *Gilligan’s Island *for wrecking her career, and looking at the kind of work she was getting before and after the show she may actually have a point. I also just learned from the filmography on her Wiki page that in her 20s she had the title role in something called Saffo - Venere di Lesbo. Yow!
Related question: Has Spamalot made Eric Idle the wealthiest of the Pythons?