Brady Bunch Convention - Q & A session - Aug 16, 2014

the girl's club like the youngest is the crazy movement of the manatee dasoni his CD with three goes alone they went to lift legs together until the day when maybe and they knew that it was much more than looking for the new book that this group we were somehow way we all become the Brady Bunch jokes. It has been a pleasure meeting most of you this weekend. We'll have a big night ahead, so stay tuned for everything now. I would like to introduce your moderator for the evening, mr. William a century of Brady Bunch 45 News in front of the gamma test for the real Brady France one through the rates of qualified moments in history, let's start in order with the Brady Bunch and then what came next, the lively Brady children are now anyone here to attend the

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It goes on and on and on and we wouldn't have it any other way. We hope it continues like this for the rest of our lives and beyond. As you can see, we have a lot of guests to bring here, so let's get to them. Right away let's start with the original Brady four who started with all the ladies first, the lovely miss Susan Olsen, played Bobby Mike Lookinland, mr. pork chops and applesauce, okay, let's have one more Brady with us as soon as he gets off the elevator. I wouldn't miss this for the world, so I'll see you guys.

I talked about this last night. The boys were on the cover of People magazine in '92 when Robert passed away and just a few months ago I saw them at the talk in honor of Florence Henderson Furyan's birthday. You always come out to support us and we can always trust you. why are you inferring something? tell us why it's a waste you're putting it off we're the ones who always go out that's not what you heard me we love you guys we're here for us well sometimes you just can't I can't be there I know Susan had that in one of the conflicts and then others have different points of view, which we would allow them to be here, that's fine.

I would like to share what my viewers know because I have been consistent with the brand on the Brady Bunch. I'm very proud of the show. It's been a wonderful journey being on an amazing controller, no doubt - the test of time and yes, each of us as something throwable, at some point I'll get into that. in more detail tonight on my show about pigeonholing or what's stopping us from moving forward, but the bottom line is this show has been wonderful for America, it's been wonderful for us, it's been wonderful for us financially, it's been wonderful for We as a second family and We all get along well and unlike some members at different times, I don't feel like we need to apologize.

I'm probably the show and I'm very proud that we have such a loyal base of people who have kept us going. we in the air of all these years that we thank you 35 years I want you to tell me what has been your most special Brady moment whether on camera or off camera you know that there are really so many and one of The reason why I always appear in these things is you may have heard me say this before, but Lawrence Anderson told me something else don't play ball in the house, he told me he loves the fans because without the fans there is nothing.

Not exchanging gifts is simply the truth, but the reason I've returned every time over the years is because I simply can't think of a good reason not to. I heard so many times that I had a difficult childhood, I had problems with my family and I was in trouble and you were mine you were my bank at home you were my safe place and that's special to have been a physical part of that and it still works to this day today for these last four decades, why don't you give me the microphone? There are smart people who don't give me mine if any of you know me on Facebook, there are so many enough for me.

I love you guys. but for me a lot of it is okay it's this family that I'll give you I'll give you my moment we all came to Hawaii to film three episodes and Robert Reed was already there and Berry was already there because he convinced production that you had to go there early to practice. Feminist waves are different in Hawaii than in California, so I was trying to save production money. They said why we got my waves to surf for about a week. They fell in love. I went to our director Jack Arnold and everyone with their hair ready you know that nobody cares about the ring and we all went out into the ocean and Bob's shoulders you know like you know these daughters and I think, for example, with those all those children except you get married, I think it was certainly and arrogant people stood up, wasn't it, wasn't that, oh, that's nonsense and I felt very proud of that.

Everyone thinks we're really bad. We have a guest here today. Because I think it's from. Australia, are you there? No, man, this was a kid, my son can't, Kenny, so today we had someone here, he came from Australia and that's where I have my story, so this is the weekend, it's really for everyone. I wasn't always, I didn't always have, say pride or even love or bravery and that was simply because where my family was from was something I thought I wasn't proud of, so they adopted they were jealous, well they were artists in their mind, so they were so upset maybe you can comment on that because he's more of an adult than me at the time.

I had a bit of this together later, after I became an adult, to try to explain why I went. But through all of that, when it was over, I was done or I thought that, to a large extent, it was about a family, and as I would realize, it was probably a better representation of a family than what I had at home, so I was trying to leave her. back I hadn't left the industry when I was in my twenties, I had kept working and other projects didn't matter, okay and no matter what I did I would go back to the big eh because it had, I call it, a gravity heavier than anything else I'd ever done , so it didn't really matter what else he did unless he reached some kind of epic level and was taller than the Bradys, that was never going to equate to what the Bradys did who frustrated themselves into a new crater and in that frustration used You have a tendency to blame the success you continue to enjoy, so I was going through that mark now in business.

If a trip to Australia had never gone around the world. I heard the water is going away. below there is no evidence that she felt totally alien to the men of showbiz, right, my first thought was great, the one who recognized me at the show and didn't know we had any idea that the show at that time was also repeating in Indonesia, Australia and other places, but I thought this would be cool. I won't have to hide. I didn't mean to say that customs when they were recognizing me and then customs asked me if I was going to see the premiere. premiere for bigger than what and now I am.

There we are selling 3D software, we have a distributor who stays at his house, the house of our civilian distributors, and receives news calls. I'm not sure how they got their number or really how they knew where I was staying other than Customs had shared where I was because they were so sure I was there for this premiere. This premiere was from the real-life Brady Tribe. Now, when they asked me to go participate, not on stage, but just to be in the audience. Real life Brady Bunch when it came through LA I said no thanks, I didn't want to be because in my mind I wasn't a Brady anymore, I was moving on and although everyone had the right to enjoy it, that wasn't the place. for me and I avoided it and then now I'm in Australia not even there three hours and the news calls me asking if I'm going to go to the show and it was two days later and I had to admit that that was a one-time fluke and maybe breathe deeply and say yes because now I am on the other side of the world in a different place although very similar to my home it is still because the first time you travel so far from home you recognize how small and insignificant you are here I am in this place I've never been to a party and before me there was an interesting new concept at the time so I said yes to going to this job I don't know who here has seen one of the real life Brady's performances but you know so well like what you said, it's just me, but during the editing of the episodes on stage they had a couch in front that could be front and center and here's this Australian cast. who I later found out was very nervous because I was there and they were doing the roles and it was at that moment that I realized that this is not something I will ever get over.

It would be exhausting for me to try to not be a Brady anymore or not recognize that at least all they're trying to give me is the love and acceptance that they bring so that that's my Brady when we start our show. There was one budget and as I got older there was another and we finally got off the third year sound stage and maybe went to the Grand Canyon, well the ticket I got there was beautiful and we didn't socialize often. A lot because we were working all the time, we had our own houses to go to, but now that we were on location, we would have to work with it.

There was a big giant log cabin with fireplace TVs and the whole group gathered together. and we sat around the fire and we were watching television together something horrible to ourselves and something very similar to what Susan and my shopkeepers oh look at this, there's a Cindy Brady in this Peter, it was crazy, there's Jan and there's Carolyn, there's Mike and there was a whole bus all over the resort and he made me feel connected, he made me feel connected to our viewers and he made us feel like we were a unit and that unity has continued to this day, each of us remains in contact with I think you had dinner with Eat Plum last night two nights ago.

We are all in contact. I get those love calls from Maureen Marcia and it's been able to stretch across all these decades and that was the first real feeling is that you have to go to the family, even though we know you're not, but you're not away from home. , tell us what you're doing and what's happening to your life, even as a New Yorker, you live in the city and you absolutely love it. her time here, in fact, they, her husband still works three weeks a month in Los Angeles and he doesn't, he does executive level technical work, but it looks like now this will be her home.

They maintain two residences, but I think we will now leave the Los Angeles side and be in New York, since she loves it now and is following her strong career as an actress on stage. Here we have a great replacement for her, it's called Speak Change and it stuck to Jan Springer. Friday lunch at Mountain Ridge, our sherry, what was it like for you to join the family at the end of the game? Well, I got really excited when my agent called my mom and told her that Jerry needs to come to the interview, my mom said, so what are the Brady Bunch four? and they need to replace one of the kids on the show and my mom says who, Oh Jan, so my mom, you know, later told me that when I got home from school I was in high school and she says, Jerry, You're supposed to go in a Tomorrow's interview for a Jamboree world has a great group.

I told her why are you talking and she says yes even though the girl who was playing can't do this and they need to replace her immediately and oh this is great. She doesn't have niceties with Jerry, but it's going to be a variety show and you're going to get this and you're going to get to dance if you get the part, so he was like, oh my gosh, that's what I've always done. What I wanted to do is sing and dance. I was already doing it, but that was the Bradys, so I did three interviews and that's exactly how I found out I got the role.

I was in high school. My counselor called me into the office and told me. Oh my God, where do they call me at the office? I'm a good girl. I will do anything wrong. I told him I should have done something and I walked him there and he said, Jerry, guess what, what, sir. Abrams, said you have the role of Jandry on that Brady Bunch variety show we almost fell on. I was really excited because Jerry, the first thing you have to do is get all your scores from all your teachers. Rarely, Johnny, I still have to do that and then I went straight to the plate and worked with Susan before a couple of commercials, so we knew each other and when it came to this, I have to say these are the most wonderful people you can imagine . working with them who really hope to be many didn't have to earn what we were, we hadn't been without you know our regular original cast before and we didn't know how we were going to assimilate someone new into a role of our Their sister and Jerry arrived with enthusiasm andnine o'clock and then we'll put it on at 8 o'clock because we had shows that never really had incidents and that wasn't the case.

I don't do it particularly well and it exists mainly in our memories. Now I'm dead. What happened. Boyd continued. You remember what some of the future stories could have been for the family. Brady. No, many guest stars came over the years. I have one here tonight Debbie Storm Molly so actually, why don't we play this clip of Weber's transformation without my contacts? Well, thank God, sir, but I thought if you like China, my mascara contest with a baby, Molly, there are other things you'll forget. I'll really help you think, so come on, my next money, the killer story is my brand money.

I hope she's happy that you have to look at her when you talk, plus she laughs and smiles, be friendly. Hi Marsha, that was good, yeah right. back and remember that the key words are poise and dignity, for example, greedy, write it down, so stand up straight and drag it up. This shows the height of the Brady Bunch to success. What was it like watching the show? Show me something you did before going on the show. You did it? You were a fan, oh, absolutely, I was, you know, we all grew up together, we all had the same agent at some point, so we all like, like Jerry said, we all knew each other and the strength, I mean, I was a big Brady Bunch fan.

Everyone has been asking this weekend what the rain event was like. It was a totally amazing experience, but apart from that, I was not aware of the impact that Malli's climate would have on teenage girls and my daughter went through that, I'm sure a lot. Many other people went through that ugly phase and I'm not really a brat, I have my moments but I'm not a graduate. I'm very grateful to have been a part of that and it doesn't matter how I got here. The point is, I'm already there, I'm still developing, so I was lucky enough to be involved in the entertainment field from the age of five until I was 22 23.

I went on to have my own group. I had four beautiful children and a few years ago I came back and now I'm going to return to the industry that I love so much I will be an informant during that week tell us a memory you have a boring well I didn't I wasn't He wasn't as close to Maureen as I was to eat, even I was about the same age. How many of you wanted to be Maureen McCormick? Huge freshman head, so you know. I grew up with all the children. We all had our moments, as Chris said before. but again I wasn't that close to caring, but everyone wanted to be her, so boy was it naive, were you sure what the first choice for Jam is?

What I heard, no, that's not right, okay, correct it, baby had chosen blonde girls and boys. Brown hair and hair depending on the cast that received any cast, so I had brown hair and they were looking for me for the role of Jam to match the parents. Push the tips. I want to give you the opportunity to ask a couple of questions. Before we finish, a young lady here was going to be our band, our assistant, can you wake up your hand? Can you show us where you are? Could you tell us yeah, microphone, okay, if you represent Ella Brady for any fans now, so tell us your name and what great group of said you love the most well, we're going to make the ruthless easier and you have a question for the panelists here and just wait for the microphone to come to you Alice, you're up, hello, this message is for Christopher Night, I was wondering, I thought I saw it on a TV show recently where you said you were going to write a biography, write my bio, facebook, yeah, I've been working on it for a little over a year, you know, very undisciplined.

I don't need to and I've been distracted numerous times this year, so we're behind, but my life goes on, so you know, if this year ended artificially because I finished it, I'd miss out on the things I'm doing now. so it just means that more things will be included in the book. Thank you. I hope myself and the Senator level buy a copy. Can you give us a little detail and a little explosion to use? He did a great job with this book chronicling Brady and all that. The Brady Bunch experience, as I mentioned earlier, my life was a little different, so mine will take an approach that I really appreciate and that maybe Lloyd also appreciates that there was a real desire to have it.

I'm sure it's part of making our set a very, very healthy environment for the kids, and interestingly enough, I wouldn't send my son into show business in good health, but for me it's the other way around, it's like it's probably more complete than it would be. I've been without going to New York on Wednesday when you pray to another what we're going through at the time was that the lie of the primordial movies, you know, maybe it acts like a parade, we met some of the partridges, but you know, the people I would say you tell him.

I can't see hello I don't know my friends list includes more and more former child actors these silver like Jenny Piccolo in Happy Together to Bewitch Erin Murphy she is a good friend I am a very good friend of with charming and young I say she is Jennifer Runyon replaced me on the Christmas special Willie Aames I just became her people, tell us the first time you mention it Runyon in public about how she was oh it's funny we were at Burger King Kids and she was at one end of the pool of balls and I was in the other and we were both going and finally she mounts.

We had never met before, so we ran around the playground and hugged each other and our kids played together. That's all, no. Don't fight, don't throw chips at each other or just a word, audience question, so together, this question is for Lloyd in the Hawaii episode when Vincent Price calls Oliver the teeth and then there's cousin Oliver, it was Oliver, your mother or your brother. I don't think there was any reason why I would like quite an original resistivity because I said it was Oliver's cousin, Oliver. Yes, we had it. I'm going to tell you something that stimulated this quite interesting part.

My son Andrew created a TV series at Disney now. called mighty med I don't think he's watching Disney very talented and they opened, you will appear in the final and dark part of our panel, so finishing, boy, we have seen the Brady Bunch movie, Christmas Brave and we are a very nice sequel, we love you. I really love these guys, is there any chance you'd ever do another story with the original? You probably remember this. We went to NBC and they asked us to do a movie where they had an idea of ​​where the Brady Tribe would be sent with the original cast and I said, well, the original cast is not Cindy and I want to do it, and I told him they didn't feel really insulted, yes, and it was that they cut off Network executive calls to Barry Williams, who says, but you're getting the cast together for a Brady movie.

This is the movie and you get to Brady's movie so Barry Barry Williams calls Chris tonight and they talk and then the rest of the movie brings everyone together and we get into their real lives if I don't know what you're doing and what you think about all this and then they're all together for the movie and then you give him the script and the first line of the script says "what a shame dad can because he's, you know, in Peru or whatever they do." these things at the studio and then Susan says you know why we all get together, we like each other so much why do we have to get together just for movies why can't we just hang out and then there's a cut, I think the studio executives are probably coming back and everyone's gone and then they're all on the beach having a great time, that was the movie, but the studio said they were onto something because of the place they wanted to do there, but we wanted our movie, but that's the only way What I would do was talk about the impact that the show has had on you and we could all be together and I thought it would be really fun, I mean we could have gone in.

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it's a wonderful thing I would have another one of your dad's shows he was never talking about Gilligan's Island East the Brady Bunch yes yes This was an idea that someone at NBC said: What if the Brady Tribe shipwrecked? There was a different one, you know, okay, and there were two different studios upstairs, so this couldn't happen, and then they said, Well, what if that one downstairs was a cheerleader? They shipwrecked and then the Dallas Cheerleaders signed with different networks, that won't work and became our local parents on Gilligan's Island.

Well, in case we never visit Brady's characters again, I want to end tonight by asking. Y'all, what do you think happens to your characters? Where are they in

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? Demi, obviously, the transformations were done great. She is America's Next. Before I do that, I just wanted to say you guys have been amazing and again I just want to thank everyone else. of the Bradys sitting here is that we retired early and are traveling the world, our kids are grown and we are currently on a beach in the south of France. Monaco, it seems perfect to me, actually I can't. improve that I think a successful career as a doctor would be great and he retired early and raised the kids well and they were both successful and graduated from college whispers where is Peter Brady today why I won't steal him Mike became Elon Musk created Tesla and then the SpaceX furniture line and the furniture work and they had to extrapolate the corner. 3D kitty designed his.

What is his website? It's at overstock.com. Christopher Knight at home

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. She is at the trailer park. Danny Partridge. Okay, okay Mike. We are so out of the world. You, Fraidy Bobby, run a small company that makes parts for Peter Brady's company. We love you. We will return to any convention you hold. See you in one or five years. There are new people to do it.