David Cassidy on the Web
David Cassidy on Oprah to talk about Ruby and the Rockits
August 18, 2009
By Dianne Butler
The Courier-Mail
www.couriermail.com.au
WHAT would David Cassidy be doing on Oprah today? Receiving adulation? That audience will just about have to be restrained.
I notice he's billed as the star of The Partridge Family, a series that finished in 1974. I'm thinking though he's probably on Oprah to talk up Ruby and the Rockits, a show he's in that's actually on television right now. We haven't got it here yet, but people are saying it's pretty good.
Family thing, he plays the dad. His daughter Katie Cassidy was the bride in Harper's Island, the fantastic murder series that just finished on Ten, but for some reason they didn't get her to play his daughter in Ruby and the Rockits.
His brother Shaun Cassidy is executive producer. Shaun Cassidy who was a Hardy Boy and a very lightweight pop singer. I don't know if you remember his first show American Gothic. The first show he created, I mean. It was a massive shock to the world that Shaun Cassidy had anything like that in him. It was a great little series, quite creepy ... Gary Cole - who later played Mike Brady in the Brady Bunch movies and was hilarious - was this kind of, I don't know, Mephistophelean character, very disturbing.
And Shaun Cassidy was also behind that series Heath Ledger did early on, Roar. I always find it interesting when somebody goes on to defy the entertainment industry's limited expectations of them and then succeeds at it. Doesn't happen that much.
Bet he's relieved Hugh Hefner canned his mother's nudie photo spread the other day. I'm sorry, I realise spread sounds awful there but that's what it's called. Shirley Jones. Who was the mother in The Partridge Family. It was only last week, she did these photos and everyone was like, are you insane, and she was like, no, I'm not going to pose nude but I am going to show the best parts of my body. Which at 75 would be her legs, I'm guessing - apparently the legs are the last to go.
Anyway, Hef decided not to run it in the end. She said it was because she wouldn't show enough flesh but I think if there's one thing we know about Hugh Hefner it's that he prefers his women about two generations younger.
