lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore) (10/08/84)
> > A buddy that I work with has come up with a real stumper. I was > wondering if anybody in netland could help me out. The question is: > The Monkees made only one movie. It was co-written by Jack Nicholson > and co-starred Annette Funicello and Frank Zappa. What was the name > of the movie. > Marty Ritchie > epsilon!mb2c!mjr I believe that the name of the movie in question is "Head". I saw it on campus about a year ago. Clearly a period piece. -- = lee@rochester rochester!lee =
boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (10/09/84)
> From: mb2c!mjr 4-Oct-1984 13:08:20 > A buddy that I work with has come up with a real stumper. I was > wondering if anybody in netland could help me out. The question is: > The Monkees made only one movie. It was co-written by Jack Nicholson > and co-starred Annette Funicello and Frank Zappa. What was the name > of the movie. > Marty Ritchie I didn't know that Jack Nicholson, Annette Funicello, and Frank Zappa were involved with it, but the one-and-only Monkees movie was called HEAD. The soundtrack for this is the only Monkees album I don't have and I've been trying to find a copy for the last 10 years. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
as@brunix.UUCP (Alex M. Stein) (10/13/84)
The Movie was called *HEAD* and was directed by Bob (*Five Easy Pieces*) Rafelson. It's a classic piece of Sixties Cinema.
asente@CSL-Vax.ARPA (Paul Asente) (10/17/84)
[Here we come, walkin' down the street...] I've got news for you (whether good or bad is for you to decide). According to the Pinkie a few weeks ago (The SF Chronicle Sunday entertainment section or those of you in less privileged parts of the world) Head is going to be re-released soon. It seems that it originally didn't find an audience since the Monkees fans didn't go see it because the Monkees played against type and nobody else did either because the Monkees were in it. The Monkees basically said "screw it" when they made this movie and satirized their entire history. Believe it or not, they didn't have any grand conceptions about themselves--they knew they were the "Pre-fab Four." -paul asente
cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia) (10/17/84)
This movie is being shown twice in the Berkeley area this fall. It's called _Head_, and was written by my favorite madman, Jack "Mr. Cuckoo's Nest himself..." Nicholson. One of the local rep theatres showed it as part of a J. N. series, and SUPERB/ASUC, the campus movie/concert people, showed it with _Spinal Tap_. INSANE FLICK..... --From the birthplace of FSM (1964-1984), --Nick Cuccia --ucbvax!cuccia
allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) (10/18/84)
HEAD! GREAT movie, it was just here (at the UC Theater), got a write-up in the SF Chronicle as well. They jibe at their own pop-star status, they bring in figures from the 60s in various incarnations, and all without any coherent screenplay. Disjoint, yes, but in an endearing and engrossing way.
allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) (10/18/84)
Oh, yes, and the movie that was playing with "Head" at the UC was a classic
of anachronistic film, "Psych Out" with Jack Nicholson as a hippy guitarist
(all too obviously ripping off Jimi in one concert scene). Rack dialogue,
pat views toward drugs, Bruce Dern as a freaked-out artist confronted by
Jack stealing his own work from the communal gallery ("*He* guided my hands
when I made this" - 'this' being a rather nondescript lump of metal).
Susan Strasberg as a deaf newcomer to the Haight-Ashbury - her reaction to
the drug STP is a terrific filmic strain to represent a bad trip.
Directed by Richard Rush, later to do "The Stunt Man", produced by -
wait for it -
DICK CLARK.
Probably regarded as an earnest, hard-hitting film on release, now a highly
dated, and enjoyable, film.strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) (10/19/84)
In article <2654@ucbvax.ARPA> allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) writes: >Oh, yes, and the movie that was playing with "Head" at the UC was a classic >of anachronistic film, "Psych Out" with Jack Nicholson as a hippy guitarist >(all too obviously ripping off Jimi in one concert scene). Rack dialogue, >pat views toward drugs, Bruce Dern as a freaked-out artist confronted by >Jack stealing his own work from the communal gallery ("*He* guided my hands >when I made this" - 'this' being a rather nondescript lump of metal). >Susan Strasberg as a deaf newcomer to the Haight-Ashbury - her reaction to >the drug STP is a terrific filmic strain to represent a bad trip. In the same vein, there is a Roger Corman movie called "The Trip" starring Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern and I think it was written by Jack Nicholson. The whole movie trys to describe what an LSD trip is like. Uses lots of colored lights, and phrases like "really beautiful, man".