David Cassidy in the News
C'mon, Get Honest: Cassidy Says His New Book Rings True
July 1, 1994
NAMES & FACES
The Orlando Sentinel
When he agreed to write a book about his life, David Cassidy also agreed to tell the truth.
''When you agree to tell the truth about something,'' Cassidy said, ''you've got to say, 'I'm not going to tell a little lie here.' ''
So in C'mon, Get Happy - Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus (Warner Books, $11.99), we learn that the former teen heartthrob:
Once threw a cup of urine at some overzealous fans.
Did a lot of drugs.
Got kicked out of high school.
Went out to dinner with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Palled around with Don Johnson and then got blown off by the former Miami Vice star.
Got cut out of his father's will.
Is embarrassed to admit he started the puka-shell necklace trend.
Had a ''semi-aborted sexual experience'' with TV co-star Susan Dey.
Slept around - a lot. (Regarding women: ''I find them enchanting creatures. I enjoy giving them attention,'' Cassidy says in the book. ''The difference between me now and me in my early 20s is I enjoy giving a lot more than I enjoy receiving. Back then, I was more self-centered.'')
Whew.
Cassidy became an idol when he was cast to play happy-go-lucky Keith Partridge on the 1970s ABC-TV series The Partridge Family. For a while, he was hotter than fire. Then the show went off the air in 1974. Cassidy went into the deep freeze. After years of nothingness, he re-emerged last year, in a kitschy sort of way, when Nickelodeon began showing Partridge Family reruns.
His book, co-authored with Chip Deffaa, concentrates heavily on his teen idol years, and it sounds a lot like therapy.
Cassidy, 44, says he wrote it to get everything out in the open so that he can move on. And he has, actually, enjoying success and a People magazine cover from his role in Blood Brothers on Broadway and writing the theme song to TV's The John Larroquette Show. Cassidy even has a TV pilot in the works.
