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...produced entirely by the Monkees, will be out in October. Why would a bunch of fiftysomethings go back to the studio when they're getting six-figure royalties from their early work? "I don't know," says MIKE NESMITH, who had declined to join previous reunions. "I called MICKY [DOLENZ], PETER [TORK] and DAVID [JONES] and said, 'You guys feel like playing?'" They did, and, says Nesmith, after deciding "we sound pretty good," they cut an album. He doesn't think the band will tour, but they might make a movie...
Remember the Pre-Fab Four of 20 years ago, those insufferably cute kids who were selected, packaged and relentlessly promoted as TV's answer to the Beatles? Then you may also recall that despite a nearly total absence of musical talent, David Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz, the Monkees, confounded the critics and rock snobs by turning out a fresh, funny show and some major hits, including I'm a Believer and Last Train to Clarksville. Now three of the four -- minus Nesmith, a film producer who, says Dolenz, "isn't into it anymore...
...producers named Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider put an ad in Daily Variety for "4 insane boys, aged 17-21." Out of 437 would-be lunatics who showed up to audition, Rafelson and Schneider picked David Jones, 20, a 5-ft. 3-in. former jockey from Manchester, England; Mickey Dolenz, 21, a former child actor from Hollywood; Peter Tork, 24, a college professor's son from Connecticut; and Mike Nesmith, 23, an Army brat from Texas. Only two of them could read music at all professionally, and only two had ever acted before. None of them could play...
...until the dullest schoolboy in the balcony can understand what it means. Then the movie spells out its story just as laboriously. Colomba (Faith Domergue), a proud Corsican beauty, determines to avenge her father's murder by members of the villainous Barricini family. She makes her brother (George Dolenz) the instrument of her revenge and, incidentally, the object of her more-than-sisterly affections...