This week, your bushy-tailed correspondent will appear on 'Dateline NBC". Reporter/Host Keith Morrison is doing a segment on your bushy-tailed correspondent. I have written a new, unauthorized biography of former child actor Maureen McCormick, known to America as Marsha Brady.
In my new book "Oh My Nose!-The REAL Hollywood Story Of Marsha Marsha Marsha", author J. RedSquirrel tells the REAL story behind the famous 'Oh, My Nose!' episode, where Peter throws the football, and breaks Marsha Brady's nose. Here is a partial transcript from the upcoming 'Dateline NBC':
(KM): "The real truth is, actress Maureen McCormick was deeply involved in drugs. In the 70's, many young actors snorted cocaine. McCormick had a particularly bad habit, one that culminated in the tearing of her nasal passage."
(MM):"Oh my nose!"
(KM): "....and to cover this terrible secret, Sherwood Schwartz, creator and writer of "The Brady Bunch", wrote the infamous 'football episode', so that the cast and crew could work around young Maureen McCormick's condition.
(MM): "Oh my nose!"
(KM): "We spoke to the author of this block-buster book. He disclosed that Schwartz had a contract with the cast, and that even the destroyed nose could not stop the shooting schedule".
(J.Redsquirrel): "Sherwood Schwartz was an evil taskmaster. Instead of getting the young actress the help she needed, he wrote the episode in question to fulfill contractral obligations with the network. They wanted 22 episodes, and by hell or high water, he was going to write (and shoot) 22 episodes."
(MM): "Oh My Nose!!"
End of transcript.
This just in. I have just received word that NBC has scrapped the segment.
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