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From: monkeebiz@prodigy.com ( MAGGIE   MCMANUS)

The Monkees tribute band HEADQUARTERS will be playing Saturday, February
6th at  "John & Peters" club in New Hope, PA.   Phone: 215-862-5981.
HEADQUARTERS goes on at 10 pm, opening for the band SPARE TIRE.


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Michael Nesmith, in a radio interview for WOR radio in New York Friday, stated that he is married to Victoria Kennedy, his longtime girlfriend.




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From: "Joe Cooper" 

I heard that Micky is on Howard Stern on E!  The show repeats from 2:30-3
AM.  I know this is short notice, but sorry.

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From: MickyD137@aol.com

I found this on a newsgroup that I am on.  I'm not really sure where the
person found this but thought it was interesting.

Ex-Monkee Mickey Dolenz asks, "Who could possibly be interested in 
this story that has been told so many times?" That's a comment he made 
on the subject of a made-for-VH1 movie about his life as one of the 
Monkees, back in the mid-sixties.

Dolenz, who's working as director on "Boy Meets World", "Pacific Blue" 
and other television shows, prefers to look forward rather than back; he 
would rather talk about his life behind the cameras. 

When the Beatles-inspired moptops found their series canceled back 
in 1968, Mickey relocated to England, spending fifteen years there 
"reinventing himself as a television director". 

Dolenz allows that he might be interested in directing the Monkees 
biopic but adds, "I have moved on, a number of times. Would you 
want to talk about what you were doing thirty years ago all the time?"

~Claire~
Hey, Hey, It's Micky Dolenz
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/mickydolenz/index.html



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Michael Nesmith won his lawsuit with PBS - watch for news in your local area! Maggie reports that the total is actually 47 million.

From: monkeebiz@prodigy.com ( MAGGIE   MCMANUS)

And here's the full press release!

FEDERAL COURT JURY FINDS PBS GUILTY OF FRAUD
AND AWARDS $46 MILLION TO EX-MONKEE MICHAEL NESMITH

Los Angeles --  In a verdict in U.S.  District Court for the
Central  District of California in a case entitled  PBS,  et
al. v. Pacific Arts and Michael Nesmith, et al., Case No. CV
95-0403 BQR, the Honorable Brian Robbins presiding,  a nine-
person   federal  court  jury  unanimously  found  that  the
venerable  PBS  had committed fraud,  and awarded  ex-Monkee
Michael  Nesmith  and  his company Pacific Arts  nearly  $46
million in compensatory and punitive damages.

The  verdict stemmed from Michael Nesmith's distribution  of
the  PBS  Home Video Library in the early  1990s,  including
such programs as Masterpiece Theater,  Nature and Ken Burns'
Civil War.  Nesmith,  who started a small video distribution
company  known  as Pacific Arts following his Grammy  Award-
winning music video Elephant Parts in the 1980s, took on the
task  of establishing a PBS Home Video line in 1990.   After
licensing  the PBS logo from PBS in February 1990,  Nesmith,
through  Pacific Arts,  independently licensed dozens of PBS
programs   directly   from  producers  and   single-handedly
established  the  now familiar "Silver Top" PBS  Home  Video
Line,  spending  millions  to do so.   By 1992 the PBS  Home
Video  Line was such a resounding success that PBS  lavished
Nesmith  with awards and public accolades,  publicly stating
that he had succeeded "beyond their wildest dreams."

But  success in terms of sales volume did not translate into
profits.   By  late  1992,  the high cost of  marketing  and
rights acquisition,  coupled with the extraordinary start-up
costs  necessary to establish this new and untested venture,
led Nesmith to decide to sell the Library, then estimated to
be worth between $10 and $15 million dollars.   Fearing that
a  sell-off of the Library to various distributors might  be
the  "death knell" of the PBS Home Video Line,  PBS  pleaded
with  Nesmith not to sell the Library,  and promised to work
with  him  to  recapitalize the business if  he  stayed  the
course.   As inducement for him to do so,  PBS promised in a
letter  of  February 12,  1993 that if the  recapitalization
effort  failed,  PBS would cooperate with him in a  "prudent
and flexible approach to properly winding down activities in
connection  with the PBS Home Video Label,"  and in no event
would  it cause a "cataclysmic disruption of  distribution."
Internal  PBS  notes  discovered during the  trial  revealed
that,  as  Nesmith  testified,  this  meant that  PBS  would
support a sale of the Library and a wind down or liquidation
of the business which might take as long as two years.

Instead,  PBS  did  exactly  the  opposite of  what  it  had
promised  to do in its letter of February 12,  1993.   Under
the  auspices  of  due diligence  for  the  recapitalization
effort,  PBS  agents were permitted open access to the books
and records of Pacific Arts by Nesmith.  But as internal PBS
memoranda revealed, PBS "looked at virtually all [Nesmith's]
producer  contracts  for  the  purpose  of  determining  the
termination  potential  for  each  title."   Days  later,  a
schedule  of  how  to terminate every license  in  Nesmith's
Library  was  circulated  at PBS,  and PBS  began  "quietly"
soliciting other distributors to take over the Library,  the
underlying rights to which PBS now intended to own itself.

Although  not  one distributor other than Nesmith  had  been
prepared  to  take on the "daunting task" of establishing  a
PBS Home Video Library in 1990, by the Summer of 1993,  as a
direct result of Nesmith's efforts to build the Library from
scratch,  PBS  found literally a dozen distributors who were
now  interested.   PBS  did  not tell  Nesmith  about  these
potential buyers, choosing to keep this information "quiet."

Next,  PBS  prepared a 3-page script to be read to producers
with  titles  in the PBS Home Video Library to  solicit  and
coordinate   them  in  a  mass  termination  of  the  rights
underlying  Nesmith's  Library.   The mass  termination  was
scheduled to occur on Monday, Columbus Day, October 11, 1993
in  what  came to be known at the trial as the Columbus  Day
Massacre.   Columbus  Day  was chosen because,  as  the  PBS
script explained, "since federal courts are closed," Nesmith
would  not  be able to take Pacific Arts into a  Chapter  11
bankruptcy to try to stop the mass terminations.  The script
also  warned  that  no  one should  terminate  earlier  than
planned  because  that would tip off Nesmith who could  then
run  to bankruptcy court and tie up everyone else.   And  in
all events,  the producers were told to "terminate not later
than 10 a.m. Tuesday morning."

To  keep  Nesmith  occupied while PBS was  coordinating  the
Columbus  Day  Massacre,   PBS  instructed  its  agents  and
executives to meet with Nesmith and his staff to assure them
of  their  good  faith and  continuing  negotiations  toward
recapitalization,  while  at  the very same  time,  PBS  was
reading  the  script  to  all  of  the  rights  holders  and
coordinating   the   mass  terminations.    PBS   executives
testified  that it would have been "stupid" to tell  Nesmith
what  they  had  planned  for  him,   although  one  outside
consultant  for  PBS testified that what PBS did was  highly
unethical.   Nesmith  testified  that had he known that  PBS
would not honor the promises made in PBS' February 12,  1993
letter,  but instead was planning the Columbus Day Massacre,
he  would have filed a Chapter 11 proceeding "in a New  York
minute."

Having kept Nesmith occupied in phony negotiations while the
termination  calls were being made,  PBS'  plan worked.   On
October  11,  1993  and  for days  thereafter,  it  "rained"
termination  notices at Pacific Arts,  and Nesmith's Library
was  decimated.   PBS  terminated  its  logo  agreement  and
demanded  millions,  eventually  suing Nesmith  and  Pacific
Arts.   PBS'  Chief  Financial Officer admitted that PBS did
indeed cause a "cataclysmic disruption" of distribution, and
PBS'  General  Counsel testified that what occurred was  not
the promised orderly wind down.

Immediately  thereafter,  PBS acquired for itself the rights
to  programs  formerly distributed by Nesmith,  often at  no
additional  cost  beyond  what  Nesmith  had  already  paid.
Turner  Home Entertainment agreed to distribute the PBS Home
Video  Library  at  retail,  and PBS  kept  the  direct-mail
operation in-house.   Out of the ashes of Pacific Arts,  PBS
built  a $27 million a year video business,  accounting  for
fully  7%  of  its gross revenues according to  PBS  annual
reports.

In  its  unanimous verdict,  the jury found PBS  liable  for
breach  of contract,  intentional misrepresentation (fraud),
intentional       concealment       (fraud),       negligent
misrepresentation,  and  interference  with  contract.    It
awarded  $14,625,000  to  Pacific Arts for the loss  of  the
value of the Library,  plus $29,250,000 in punitive damages.
It awarded $3 million to Nesmith personally, including $2
million in punitive damages.

The  case was tried on behalf of Nesmith and Pacific Arts by
the  trial  team of Henry Gradstein and Bruce Van Dalsem  of
Gradstein,  Luskin  &  Van Dalsem.   According to Gradstein:
"The   verdict  established  that  in  court,   everyone  is
accountable,  even  when  cloaked  with  the  imprimatur  of
respectability.  We are all equal in front of the jury,  and
the  simple and yet profound question is whether one  person
has  treated  another person fairly and honestly.   In  this
case,  the  jury found that PBS did not treat Nesmith fairly
and  honestly,  and  it  sent  a message  to  Congress  that
something is terribly wrong at PBS.   What makes the verdict
all  the more extraordinary is that Nesmith and his  company
were  actually  the defendants in the case while pursuing  a
counterclaim.   The  jury unanimously rejected PBS  lawsuit
and  found  in  favor of each and every one of  my  clients
counterclaims, for a verdict of nearly $46 million."



maggie
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From: "Torka" 

>From the Reuters news service, as reported on the Excite website:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Nesmith, a former star of "The 
Monkees" TV series and pop group, has won $46 million in damages in a 
lawsuit against the Public Broadcasting Service over the rights to a 
videotape library of PBS programs.

In a verdict reached late Monday and announced Tuesday by Nesmith's 
lawyer, a federal court jury unanimously found PBS liable for breach 
of contract and fraud. PBS said it would fight the verdict.

Nesmith alleged in his lawsuit that PBS promised in 1993 to help save 
his Pacific Arts distribution business. Pacific Arts was deeply in 
debt after establishing the "Silver Top" PBS Home Video Library, 
which distributed such programs as "Masterpiece Theater" and Ken 
Burns' "Civil War" documentary series.

Nesmith alleged that the network convinced producers of those 
programs to terminate their distribution contracts with Pacific Arts 
and sign them over to PBS. The network then found new distributors 
for the Home Video Library and built a $27 million business around 
them, he alleged.

"It's like finding your grandmother stealing your stereo," Nesmith 
said. "You're happy to get your stereo back, but it's sad to find out 
your grandmother is a thief."

Nesmith added: "They lied to me, they cheated me, they made an 
attempt to get the catalog dishonestly. They were unethical and 
duplicitous."

Stu Kantor, director of corporate communications for PBS, said the 
network disagreed with the verdict and would fight it in court.

"PBS believes that the facts and the law in the case merited a 
verdict in its favor," Kantor said. "PBS will vigorously contest the 
verdict."

Asked if PBS would appeal the verdict, Kantor said: "We will take 
every option, including filing motions to set aside the verdict."

The jury awarded Nesmith's Pacific Arts distribution company $14.6 
million in compensatory damages and $29.2 million in punitive 
damages. Nesmith personally won $1 million in compensatory damages 
and $2 million in punitive damages.

Nesmith, 56, whose mother invented Liquid Paper correction fluid, 
became famous in the 1960s as a member of the Monkees, a made-for-
television pop foursome who starred in a TV series and the big screen 
film "Head," which also featured Jack Nicholson. The Monkees, who 
included Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones and Peter Tork, also staged 
concert tours.

==Torka
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From: Vweidler@aol.com

I found on AOL News...

Subject: PBS Ordered To Pay $47M to Nesmith

PBS Ordered To Pay $47M to Nesmith

.c The Associated Press

 By ROBERT JABLON

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Public Broadcasting Service must pay nearly $47
million to ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith and his defunct company for defrauding
him in a home video deal that sank the firm.

A federal jury decided Monday that PBS went behind Nesmith's back to steal the
home video rights to such popular fare as ``Sesame Street'' and the Ken Burns
documentary ``The Civil War'' while promising to keep his faltering firm
afloat.

Jurors rejected PBS' breach-of-contract lawsuit that claimed Nesmith owed the
nonprofit corporation millions of dollars. They upheld a counterclaim of
fraud, breach of contract and contract interference.

``It's like catching your grandmother stealing your stereo,'' Nesmith said
through a publicist. ``On one hand, you're happy to get the stereo back. On
the other, you're sad to find out your grandma's a thief.''

Stu Cantor, a PBS spokesman, said the association of public television
stations will appeal.

``PBS firmly believes that the facts and the law in the case merited a ruling
in our favor and we are frankly shocked at the verdict,'' he said, reading a
statement from PBS headquarters in Alexandria, Va.

The case is the latest controversy over PBS' aggressive new moneymaking
techniques. In the mid-1990s, as Congress threatened deep funding cutbacks,
PBS turned to the marketplace, offering among other things expanded commercial
spots to corporate donors.

Nesmith, 56, was the hat- and sideburns-wearing member of the Monkees, a 1960s
music and TV sitcom sensation.

Nesmith's company, Pacific Arts, made a deal in 1990 to distribute the PBS
Home Video Line. He licensed the PBS trademark and obtained home video rights
to dozens of programs from their producers.

``Pacific Arts spent $8 million breaking the market, convincing stores to give
up shelf space for this, putting up kiosks in Wal-Marts, things like that,''
said Bruce Van Dalsem, a Nesmith lawyer.

By 1993, the videos were selling well, but Nesmith's company was losing money
because of the high costs. He decided to sell the rights to the accumulated
video library, which could earn up to $15 million and allow him to pay off
royalties and other business debts, the lawyer said.

PBS agreed in writing to help him recapitalize the business or, if that
failed, cooperate in slowly winding down the company to avoid disruption,
Nesmith said.

While meeting with Nesmith and his staff to reassure them of their good faith,
PBS officials were busy soliciting a dozen other potential distributors,
Nesmith said. They also convinced the producers of the shows to terminate
their distribution contracts with Pacific Arts en masse, Nesmith claimed.

PBS obtained the video distribution rights, split them with Turner Home
Entertainment and now reaps $27 million per year from the business, Van Dalsem
said.

Claiming he owed them millions, Nesmith was sued by PBS, Ken Burns' company,
public stations WNET-New York and WGBH-Boston and by Children' Television
Workshop, which created ``Sesame Street.''

He countersued and the cases went to trial before a single jury on Jan. 4. The
jury ruled PBS must pay the other plaintiffs what Pacific Arts owed them.

Jurors awarded more than $14.6 million to Pacific Arts for the loss of the
value of the video library and nearly $29.3 million in punitive damages.
Another $3 million was awarded to Nesmith personally.

 


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There is a report about Michael's lawsuit with PBS on the CNN show Showbiz Today on at 12:30 pm Mountain time and repeated tonight at 1 am Mountain time.



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The Nesmith PBS lawsuit is reportedly on the front page of many newspapers today, including the LA Times, New York Times and Variety.

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From: "Randi L. Waddell" 

LA Times
Former Monkee Wins $47 Million From PBS Network 
              By ANN W. O'NEILL, Times Staff Writer

                        The public television network--known for Big Bird,
                           "Masterpiece Theatre" and fund-raising telethons--cheated
                      former Monkee Michael Nesmith in a home video deal and must
                      pay him nearly $47 million, a federal jury in Los Angeles has found. 
                           The Public Broadcasting Service initially sued Nesmith and his
                      defunct Santa Monica-based Pacific Arts Corp. over royalties from
                      the prestigious PBS logo, which Nesmith had licensed as he began
                      to build and distribute a video library of the network's most popular
                      programs. 
                           At the end of a five-week trial, the nine-member jury
                      unanimously rejected the PBS claim and instead found that the
                      network had defrauded Nesmith. Jurors agreed that after sales
                      perked up, PBS went behind Nesmith's back and stole away the
                      rights to the programs. The verdict was reached Monday and
                      announced Tuesday. 
                           A PBS spokesman said the network was "shocked at the
                      verdict" and would appeal vigorously. 
                           Nesmith and his lawyer, meanwhile, had plenty to say about
                      their courtroom victory over PBS. 
                           "They were so bloody arrogant," said attorney Henry Gradstein. 
                           "I'm not the bad guy. I'm the injured party," said Nesmith,
                      adding in his folksy Southwestern twang, "It's like catching your
                      grandmother stealing your stereo. You're glad to get your stereo
                      back, but you're sad to find out that Grandma's a thief." 
                           PBS, he added, "was supposed to be the good guys. But the
                      next thing you know, these guys you think are sweetness and light
                      are perpetrating a fraud. And a fraud is a fraud is a fraud." 
                           Gradstein said jurors found that PBS acted with "unclean hands"
                      in its dealings with Nesmith, a former pop star who bought his way
                      out of his Monkees contract, produced several cult films such as
                      "Repo Man" and, in 1990, virtually created the multimillion-dollar
                      home video market for PBS. 
                           The video market for television shows was in its infancy when
                      Nesmith went to PBS with a plan to buy the rights to its most
                      popular programs and build a home video library that would be
                      distributed in stores. Start-up costs soon left Nesmith's company in
                      financial straits, even though the videos were selling well. 
                           Nesmith decided to sell the rights to the video library for up to
                      $15 million, but PBS promised in writing to help him keep his
                      company afloat. 
                           According to Gradstein, testimony and internal PBS documents
                      discovered during the trial, the network's executives, instead of
                      helping Nesmith, stole the video rights. The PBS video line now
                      brings in about $21 million a year. 
                           Gradstein said that even as PBS executives were sitting at the
                      negotiating table with Nesmith in 1993, discussing how to help his
                      company, they were engineering what became known as "the
                      Columbus Day massacre," a massive termination of Nesmith's
                      contracts with the producers of programs in the video library. 
                           Jurors awarded $14.6 million to Pacific Arts for the value of the
                      loss of the library, plus $29.3 in punitive damages. It awarded $1
                      million personally to Nesmith, plus an additional $2 million in
                      punitive damages. 
                           "I told [PBS] not to hit me," Nesmith said. "I told them, 'Don't
                      do it, boys. You know you've got skeletons hanging in your closets.
                      You've done a bad thing here.' I was just prepared to lick my
                      wounds and take my loss. I didn't want to pound these guys into the
                      sand, but that was not to be." 
                           Nesmith testified during the trial about "a dark and sinister web
                      woven by PBS." 
                           Faced with taking the stand, he said, "I wondered how was I
                      gonna sit up there and explain all this to people who watch 'Nature'
                      and Big Bird? I certainly don't feel like I've won the Super Bowl.
                      This is a heartbreaker on one level. It shakes the foundation of
                      something I thought was a really good thing." 
                           Nesmith, 56, is best known as the hat-wearing guitar player with
                      the Monkees, a 1960s music and sitcom sensation sometimes
                      remembered as "the prefab four." He was considered the "smart
                      Monkee." 
                           His mother, Bette Claire Graham, invented Liquid Paper, which
                      she sold to Gillette in 1979 for $47.5 million. A year later, Nesmith
                      inherited her fortune when she died. His inheritance financed
                      Nesmith's "Elephant Parts," the innovative video that won the first
                      video Grammy Award. 
                           "It's ironic," Nesmith said Tuesday, that the jury awarded him
                      nearly the same amount Gillette paid his mother for Liquid Paper. 

                      Copyright 1999 Los Angeles Times. All Rights Reserved 

Randi L. Waddell

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From: "Randi L. Waddell" 

the total is off by $1 million.

Yahoo! News    
Entertainment Headlines 

Tuesday February 2 7:54 PM ET 

Former Monkee wins $46 million in suit against PBS

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Nesmith, a former star of ''The Monkees'' TV
series and pop group, has won $46
million in damages in a lawsuit against the Public Broadcasting Service over
the rights to a videotape library of PBS programs.

In a verdict reached late Monday and announced Tuesday by Nesmith's lawyer,
a federal court jury unanimously found PBS liable for breach of contract and
fraud. PBS said it would fight the verdict.

Nesmith alleged in his lawsuit that PBS promised in 1993 to help save his
Pacific Arts distribution business. Pacific Arts was deeply in debt after
establishing the ``Silver Top'' PBS Home Video Library, which distributed
such programs as ''Masterpiece Theatre'' and Ken Burns' ``Civil War''
documentary series.

Nesmith alleged that the network persuaded producers of those programs to
terminate their distribution contracts with Pacific Arts and sign them over
to PBS. The network then found new distributors for the Home Video Library
and built a $27 million business around them, he alleged.

``It's like finding your grandmother stealing your stereo,'' Nesmith said.
``You're happy to get your stereo back, but it's sad to find out your
grandmother is a thief.''

Nesmith added: ``They lied to me, they cheated me, they made an attempt to
get the catalogue dishonestly. They were
unethical and duplicitous.''

Stu Kantor, director of corporate communications for PBS, said the network
disagreed with the verdict and would fight it in court.

``PBS believes that the facts and the law in the case merited a verdict in
its favor,'' Kantor said. ``PBS will vigorously contest the verdict.''

Asked if PBS would appeal the verdict, Kantor said: ``We will take every
option, including filing motions to set aside the
verdict.''

The jury awarded Nesmith's Pacific Arts distribution company $14.6 million
in compensatory damages and $29.2 million in punitive damages. Nesmith
personally won $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive
damages

Nesmith, 56, whose mother invented Liquid Paper correction fluid, became
famous in the 1960s as a member of the Monkees, a made-for-television pop
foursome who starred in a TV series and the big-screen film ``Head,'' which
also featured Jack Nicholson.

The Monkees, who included Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones and Peter Tork, also
staged concert tours.

Reuters/Variety 

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From: Lenora McCoy 

All times Central

04:30pm Sun Feb-07 

NIK-41 . BRADY BUNCH .......................... 4:30-5pm ... OldS/Sitc
               "Getting Davy Jones". Marcia promises to get Davy Jones
               for the school prom. Stereo.

~Lenora~
-- 
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There is a small blurb about nez winning the lawsuit against PBS on The
Daily Show, to be repeated at 1:30 AM on 2/4.  It is actually pretty funny,
and they do show a picture of davy in it also.

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There is a report about Michael's lawsuit with PBS on the CNN show Showbiz Today on at 12:30 pm Mountain time and repeated tonight at 1 am Mountain time.



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Davy's show at the Texas Station in Las Vegas (Feb. 9) has been cancelled.  :(



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From: "Kimberly Pearce Varnum" 

Info on the upcoming Manchester, TN Teen Idol Tour show on August 14th:

The venue is actually going to be like a mini-Woodstock. The dates are 
August 12-15th. There will be over 40 performers there. The tickets are 
$35 per day or $80 for all four days. The tickets go on sale February 
26th. For a more info, check out the website http://www.itchycoo.com. 

April from Bobby's official site passed this along...

May 22,1999 - Texas Gambling Hall & Casino, Las Vegas, NV 
#702-631-1000 Website: http://www.texasstation.com.
April advises this is a very small hotel & casino - Only 250 rooms - so 
if anyone plans on going you should make reservations now. 

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From: Roseann Flickenger 

LAST UPDATE:  FEBRUARY 10, 1999

Shoe Suede Blues appearance dates: 

               Club Caprice
               1700 S. Pacific Coast Highway
               Redondo Beach, CA 90277
               For more info, call 310-316-1700 
                    Saturday, February 20, 1999

               Doc's
               95 Prescott (Cannery Row)
               Monterey, CA
               For more info, call 831-649-4241 
                    Friday, March 12, 1999

               The March 14 appearance at the Brick by Brick
               in San Diego has been cancelled.  The band 
               hopes to reschedule another date in the area
               soon.

===============================================================

Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley scheduled appearances:

Date/Time               Venue/Comments                  Phone/Contacts
=========               ============================    ==============

Thursday,               Towne Crier
May 13                  Pawling, NY
                        More information will be posted 
                        as it becomes available.

Friday,                 Mays Chapel
May 14                  Timonium, MD  (Baltimore)
                        More information will be posted 
                        as it becomes available.


Saturday,               Fulton Opera House              717 397 7425
May 15                  12 N. Prince Street              
                        Lancaster, PA 17603

                        Tickets for this show will go on sale
                        on or about April 1.

                        This is a *Special Show* ... it 
                        will be professionally videotaped
                        for sale at a later date. For 
                        this show only, **NO**
                        videocameras or audio tape 
                        recorders will be permitted in 
                        the venue. Still cameras will be 
                        permitted.
                
                        For ticket information, stop by the Fulton Opera
                        website at http://www.fultontheatre.org/tickets.html. 
                                                                          
Sunday,                 Tin Angel                        215 928 0978      
May 16                  20 S. Second Street
                        Philadelphia, PA 

                        Tickets are available over the phone (215)
                        928-0978 noon - 10PM, 7 days a week or in
                        person at 20 South 2nd. Street after 4 pm 7
                        days a week. There is a $1.50 per ticket
                        surcharge for ordering over the phone. For more
                        information, visit the Tin Angel website at
                        http://www.tinangel.com/. 

                
Saturday,               Lewisville Lawn Party
May 22                  Lewisville, NC 

                        More information will be posted when it becomes
                        available.

         Confirm dates, show times and ticket cost with venues

                  Appearance schedules are available at:
                     http://www.pond.com/~zanapd/tork/
                                    or
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From: Sara 

Hi everyone!
 Mike was mentioned in People magazine for the week of 2/22/99. It's under
Passages(pg. 85). It reads:

Awarded
On Feb. 1 a federal jury in L.A. found the Public Broadcasting Service
guilty of fraud in a deal it had made with former Monkee Michael Nesmith,
56, and ordered the network to pay $46 million in damages. In 1990,
Nesmith's company, Pacific Arts, established a home library of PBS shows
like Masterpiece Theatere and The Civil War, but Nesmith claimed that when
his enterprise ran into financial trobule, PBS surreptitiously acquired the
rights to the programs.

© 1999 PEOPLE

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From: "Kimberly Pearce Varnum" 

Just caught Micky and Ami Dolenz on a "teaser" for Monday's Hard Copy.  
The story is on celebrities who have had unauthorized nude photos put on 
internet web sites. The snippet showed Ami viewing a site with her photo 
and Micky commenting that there are some "real sickos out there". The 
full story will air on Monday so check local listings. 

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From: Denise McCabe 

I saw this in the current edition of ROLLING STONE. It might actually be the
last one (Laryn Hill is on the cover) I don't know how true it is, but I
thought that I would pass it on.

In the ROCK AND ROLL section, there is an article on upcoming oldies
packages tours for the summer. The article claims that one tour, called the
Summer of Peace and Love tour, will be featuring Micky Dolenz sharing the
bill with Byrds founder Roger McGuinn and other 60's rock luminaries. 

Like I said, I don't know how true this is, but maybe someone in Monkeeland
knows more.

Cheers,

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From: Lily Adams 

In the new issue of "Entertainment Weekly", There is an article for
the 100 greatest moments in TV history. On page 34 in the 1950's
section there is a mini section that says "TV, Planet of the apes". In
there it has a pic of the monkees and has a bit to say about them. It
says "The Monkees. Okay, so they're not actual monkeys. But these
pseudo-rock stars were almost as evolved as your average lemur. Much
like 'Laugh-in' and 'Mod squad', the unthreatening prefab groovesters
showed TV's remarkable ability to co-opt a social revolution."

Peace and Love,
Lily 

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From: ZorZam125@aol.com

Happy 57th birthday today to Peter Tork!!  Check your local newspapers if they
list celebrity birthdays.  He should be there. : )

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From: "Katie Brown" 

The Monkees are in the new Guiness book of records,
for the most no1 Albumns in one year.


LookSmart … or keep looking.
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From: GriestD@aol.com

In the February 8th issue of Video Business Magazine, which a trade
publication for the video industry, there was the following article on Michael
Nesmith.

News from Variety
By Janet Shprintz

	In a case dubbed "The Monkee vs. Cookie Monster," Michael Nesmith won a
$46.8 million verdict last week when a federal jury found that PBS had committed 
fraud by inducing a mass termination of video licenses held by Nesmith's company, 
Pacific Arts.
	Henry Gradstein, Nesmith's lawyer, said, "The jury found that PBS did not treat 
Nesmith fairly and honestly."
	A spokesman said PBS was "frankly shocked and plans to vigorously contest
the verdict."
	The dispute stems from Pacific Arts' distribution of the PBS Home Video Library--
including such programs as Masterpiece Theatre and Ken Burns's Civil War series-- 
in the early 1990s.
	Through Pacific Arts, ex-Monkee Nesmith licensed the PBS logo from the
broadcaster and dozens of PBS programs directly from producers.  Facing a
cash crunch, he decided to sell the library in late 1992, but, according to
his lawyers, PBS persuaded him to try to recapitalize or slowly wind down the
library to avoid a disruption of distribution.
	Subsequently, Nesmith's lawyers alleged, PBS orchestrated a massive
termination of Pacific Arts' license agreements and its solicting of other
distributors to take over the library, with the intention of capturing the
underlying rights itself.  PBS sued Nesmith and Pacific Arts in 1995 for
past-due royalties.
	Nesmith filed a countersuit claiming fraud.
	The verdict gives $14.6 million to Pacific Arts in compensatory damages
based on the value of the library, plus $29.2 million in punitive damages.
Nesmith received $3 million, including $2 million in punitive damages.
---This story first appeared in Feb. 3 Daily Variety.

I thought everyone might find this interesting.

Deb



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From: Hooloovoo 

> In the ROCK AND ROLL section, there is an article on upcoming oldies
> packages tours for the summer. The article claims that one tour, called the
> Summer of Peace and Love tour, will be featuring Micky Dolenz sharing the
> bill with Byrds founder Roger McGuinn and other 60's rock luminaries. 

Rolling Stone was printing mere rumors.  Micky will *not* be touring this summer either with this tour or any others. His plans for this summer are to pursue more directorial work.

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From: Jay Votel 

Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley are scheduled to perform at May's
Chapel in Timonium, MD, May 14 at 8 p.m. This is one of the most popular
intimate folk venues in the Baltimore area. The ticket information
number is 410-922-5210.
-- Jay Votel

++++++++++++++++++

From: LazyBum24@aol.com

            Last week Davy met with the label staff of the new Delta disc
records in Hendersonville, Tenn. He has a friend there and wanted to check it
out to see if he wanted to record here.

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From: Roseann Flickenger 

For all those planning to attend the Shoe Suede Blues show at Club 
Caprice in Redondo Beach, California ... the following message was just 
received from Tadg of Shoe Suede Blues:

Emergency message!!!
The Gig this Saturday the 20th of February at Club Caprice in Redondo
Beach has been CANCELLED.

---Zan



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From: Tiffany 

As posted before, the issue of Rolling Stone with Lauryn Hill on the cover (Feb. 18th), the same article (pg. 24) that Micky's name appears in for the Summer of Peace and Love Tour, in last paragraph, it says- "Indeed, it seems that there's a classic-rock package for everyone: Silverman recently had the Teen Idols - Davy Jones of the Monkees, Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits and Bobby Sherman - performing New Year's Eve at Disney World. 'Peter Noone says the girls still throw underwear onstage,' says Silverman, 'It's just the size of the underwear they're throwing that's a little different.' -FRED GOODMAN"
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From: monkeebiz@prodigy.com ( MAGGIE   MCMANUS)

The Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues gig scheduled for Feb. 20 at Club
Caprice in Redondo Beach, CA, has been *CANCELLED*.  Peter says the
cancellation was "due to circumstances beyond our control".  If you are in
touch with other Monkees fans in the southern California area who are
planning to attend the show, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD.

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Monkee Business Fanzine Monkees News Update
February 17, 1999


PETER TORK
Peter will pay a visit to Indianapolis on March 11, thanks to oldies radio
station WGLD.  Peter will be the on-air guest of the WGLD Gold Morning Good
Guys from 7 to 9 am on March 11.  He'll do an in-store personal appearance
and autograph signing later in the day, location to be announced.  Listen
to WGLD 104-5 FM for further updates and details, or call the station at
317-842-9550 for more info.  Peter's appearance is part of WGLD's
"Throwback Thursdays"---every Thursday in March, the station brings a '60s
TV celebrity to town.  Other guests during the month include Larry Storch
from "F Troop", Russell Johnson from "Gilligan's Island", and game show
host Gene Rayburn.

Peter will spend 1999 recording a new solo album.  He'll also be playing a
number of dates solo and with the Shoe Suede Blues Band. Current dates are
listed below:
Date      Venue
----      -----
Feb. 20   *CANCELLED*  Club Caprice, Redondo Beach, CA, 310-316-1700
Mar. 12   Doc's, Monterey, CA, 831-649-4241
Mar. 14   *CANCELLED*  Brick By Brick, San Diego, CA, 619-275-5483

Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley will tour this spring:
Date      Venue
----      -----
May 15    Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, PA, 717-397-7425
May 16    Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA, 215-928-0770
May 22    Lewisville Lawn Party, Lewisville, NC, e-mail LAAC27023@aol.com




DAVY JONES
Davy Jones is co-starring with Peter Noone and Bobby Sherman on the Teen
Idols concert tour:
Date       Venue
----       -----
Mar. 28    Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens, MI, 810-286-2000
May   6    Soaring Eagle Casino, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 517-772-8900
May  15    WFOX Festival, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA, 770-953-9369, or
                listen to WFOX 97.1 FM
Aug. 14    Itchycoo Park '99: The Camping Experience, Arts, Crafts &
                Music Festival, Manchester, TN, toll free 1-877-ITCHY99
                or see the www.itchycoo.com website

Davy will also embark on a few solo dates:
Date         Venue
----         -----
March 9-14   Sweet Basil, JAPAN
April 10     Robert Morris College, Moon Township, PA, 412-262-8200
April 20-23  Flower Power Festival, DisneyWorld, Lake Buena Vista, FL,
                 407-WDISNEY
June 12      Franklin Quest Field, Salt Lake City, UT, 801-485-3800
Sep. 18      Homer Hamilton Amphitheatre, Tennessee Valley Fair,
                 Knoxville, TN, 423-637-5840, concert free with paid
                 fair admission
Oct. 23      Murphy Theater, Wilmington, OH, 937-382-3643


MICKY DOLENZ
Micky is working seriously on his directing career in 1999.  He recently
directed an episode of the ABC-TV sitcom "Boy Meets World", which will air
Feb. 26.


MICHAEL NESMITH
Nez recently completed a bicoastal book tour to promote his new novel, The
Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora (1998, St. Martin's Press).
Michael Nesmith's long-running legal trouble with PBS was finally concluded
in early February when a federal court jury awarded him a settlement of
nearly $47 million dollars.  PBS plans to appeal the verdict.



SPENCER GIFTS
As previously announced in the December issue of Monkee Business Fanzine,
the Spencer Gifts retail chain is the exclusive distributor of a line of
Monkees merchandise this winter.  Some MBF readers have reported that not
every Spencer Gifts is carrying the Monkees product line---for the location
of the nearest Spencer that IS carrying the Monkees stuff, you can call
1-800-321-2497 (their customer service department).  Yes, some stores WERE
carrying the Monkees line and have dropped it now that the Christmas season
has passed, but Spencer's customer service people tell us they are
committed to helping you find the Monkees items you need, even if they have
to do it by mail!!!
Also, now that the Christmas season has passed, Spencer has added six
different Monkees t-shirts to their stores.  We've been told that the red
one, the one showing the Monkees on a vintage TV set, is a Spencer
exclusive.  Another new one is due out this spring, "in time for Spring
Break," says Spencer Gifts.


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From: "Kimberly Pearce Varnum" 

The Teen Idol Tour has added another date to their line up for 1999. 
Davy, Peter and Bobby will appear May 29th 1999 at the Nashville Arena 
in Nashville, Tennessee.

peace and love,
Kimberly
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From ???@??? Sat Feb 20 15:10:36 1999
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From: Psa13@aol.com

My sister caught Micky on petcetera on Animal Planet about thirty minutes
ago.  They were interviewing celebrities about their pets.  Animal Planet
usually repeats itself daily, so check the schedule.

monkees rule,
	whitney
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From ???@??? Mon Feb 22 11:34:07 1999
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From: C Smith 

In the TV LAND 1999 Classic TV Awards, Davy won in the category of
BEST GUEST STAR in his role on the Brady Bunch! He got 44% of the
votes! Hey, we KNEW he'd win! To view the results in all the
categories, go to the Nick-at-Nite home page at www.nick-at-nite.com
and click on the Classic TV Awards. 

Charlyne 
csmiths@worldnet.att.net



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From ???@??? Fri Feb 26 15:13:04 1999
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From: monkeebiz@prodigy.com ( MAGGIE   MCMANUS)

Although the "Boy Meets World" production office had told us weeks ago that
the "BMW" episode Micky Dolenz directed would air Feb. 26, a glance at
tonight's TV listings shows that no episode of "BMW" is scheduled for
tonight.  Today a spokesman for the show said there's no set air date for
Micky's episode, but two possibilities are March 12 or April 2.  Episode
title is "Bee True".


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From: "Amato, Jim" 

Just  confirmed today that Michael Nesmith will be a guest on "The Live 
Mike" with Mike Romigh this coming Tuesday Night (March 2, 1999) at 10:00 PM 
Eastern Time for an entire hour on KDKA AM 1020 in Pittsburgh, PA, "The 
Pioneer Broadcasting Station of The World."  The show can be heard in 38 
states, half of Canada and Mexico via 50,000 watts at 1020 on the AM Dial. 
 He will be taking calls, talking about the new book, his music, TV, and 
anything else that may pop up.  So tune in to hear a legend on a legendary 
station!

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From: CHasbro396@aol.com

In the March 8,1999 issue of People Magazine on page 50, there is an article on 
Michael's book The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora.
Thank You,
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From: Nadine 

Mike Nesmith was on "Extra" this morning (Saturday, Feb. 27).  It was a
two minute clip.

nadine


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