Maureen McCormick's New Book Continues The Tradition Of Ruining Brady Reruns For An Entire Generation - Page 2
The final bridge to be repaired is the one with [Eve] Plumb. McCormick told Vieira that her co-star stopped speaking to her years ago after McCormick appeared on a late-night talk show and got carried away during a conversation about the “The Brady Brides,” a reunion TV-movie that marked the first time the entire cast had been back together since “The Brady Bunch” ended its five-year run in 1974.“It was all this sex with the Brady Bunch,” she said of the rumors at the time that set the tenor of the talk-show segment. “So I was on this talk show and I said I fell in love with everybody,” McCormick went on, naming her fellow cast members: Robert Reed, her TV father, and her TV brothers, Barry Williams [Greg Brady] and Chris Knight [Peter Brady].
She actually did have a crush on Reed, and she almost lost her virginity when she was 16 to Williams. (His parents came in his room and caught them in a passionate clinch and circling the bases, but not yet arrived at home plate.) In the spirit of fun, she told Vieira, McCormick added on the talk show that she was also in love with Florence Henderson, her TV mom, and Plumb, whom she said she kissed.
“I was having fun, something I was joking with, and she didn’t take it that way,” McCormick told Vieira.
Oh well, we always knew Jan was an old stick in the mud. (Just kidding! Eve, call her, life is too short.)
Now, normally this is the place where I get all cynical and say that she's in it for the money and a tell-all biography featuring behind-the-scenes tidbits of one of television's most popular series is the best way to make all the problems go away, put money in the bank, and/or get on the news. And I'm sure there's a bit of all that wrapped up in all this. But I don't know...maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I want to believe that Maureen really does want to share her story, that she really does have words of advice to give to today's young people and the child/teen/young adult stars we see in movies and on TV. After all, she's been there and done that. Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to throw out these sorts of books just because there have been a few of them who are blatant money-makers for their authors.
Yet another example of why thrusting fame and pressure on young kids isn't such a good idea. But after all the revelations of the backstage drama that took place on the set of this one show, I can't look at any episode the same way. What am I saying? I never really liked the show, although I wanted the house. Now that was a cool house. You can't tell me you didn't love that seventies staircase, although I think the designers used a bit too much orange. My daughter loves the show, though, so I think I'll let her live a few more years in innocence before spoiling it for her.
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