Posted on 01/11/2014 6:19:53 PM PST by SamAdams76
David Cassidy, a former teen idol and star of the 1970s U.S. television series "The Partridge Family," was arrested in California on Friday night on suspicion of drunken driving — his third such arrest since 2010.
Cassidy, 63, was stopped on a road near Los Angeles International Airport after making a right turn on a red light in violation of a posted sign, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.
After smelling alcohol coming from Cassidy's vehicle, an officer gave him a field sobriety test that showed a blood alcohol content of 0.19 percent, the patrol said. That level is more than twice the 0.08 legal limit for driving in California.
Cassidy was alone in the car, the patrol said.
Cassidy was charged in August with drunken driving in Schodack, N.Y., after initially being stopped for not dimming his headlights, authorities said at the time. He was arrested and convicted for drunken driving in Florida in 2010.
Over my head too. But I do have the flu. Funny!
I had a major crush on Susan Dey when I was in high school.
I got turned off when I saw her on a Los Angeles TV station during the 1984 presidential campaign, and she said something like, “Reagan and Bush she just leave office now, and let Mondale and Ferraro take over.” And she said it with an angry look on her face.
It was a major turn off.
I think his uncle, Hopalong, died from terminal flatulence after a bean eating binge.
Same here, I bought every Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, and 16 magazine with his picture on the cover with my babysitting money and allowance, and they always had pull-out posters, which promptly went on my wall.. My neighbor even bought me a “life size” poster of David that I hung on the back of my bedroom door. He would teasingly refer to him as “David Casualty”. LOL.
I knew every single Partridge Family song there was because my bestie had ALL their albums. Yes, I was totally coveting them. ;^) I had a couple of their 8-tracks. Ahh, memories...
Oh! I remember he came here for a concert, and my mom wouldn’t let me go. I cried for hours. I gave her the silent treatment for a while as well. Hahaha!
Yes - the bottom pic is just like I remember him when he was young. Now I look at the picture and see: eyeliner on both top and bottom lids, mascara, lip gloss, highlighter and blush on that face.
I had no opinion of him before reading it, but afterwards, I ended up not liking him at all.
Most autobiographies gloss over the "ugly parts" of a person's life. This one tells everything, in all its sleazy glory.
But I don't wish him ill. I hope he gets help, and soon.
A third DUI almost always ends up with some jail time.
Hopefully it will be a wake up call.
David Cassidy: “I think I love alcohol but what am I afraid of....
Being sober....though it worries me to say I’ve never felt that way....
I have a love of alcohol there is no cure for.....
Anyway, I think I mentioned it here once or twice but around 1971 or 1972, when I was just 9 or 10 years old, I actually penned a fan letter addressed to "Mr. Reuben Kincaid" asking to be let into the Partridge Family. The premise of the letter was that I could drum (at least better than Chris), bang on a tambourine or maybe ring a little cowbell. Well maybe I never specifically mentioned cowbell but I'm sure The Partridge Family could have used more of it at the time.
I ended up getting just a form letter from the band inviting me to join their fan club and they included an 8x10 glossy of Keith Partridge which was a pretty humiliating experience for a 9-year-old boy who just wanted to join the band! I guess you could say it was my "Drink Your Ovaltine" moment and made me just a little bit more cynical about the outside world. Yes, I really did harbor a fantasy at the time of the Partridge Family tour bus pulling up to my house and whisking me away from the drab existence that was my life at the time.
Everybody likes to make fun of the music of The Partridge Family but it all brings back fond memories for me. The music takes me back to a more innocent time in my life when I still had my whole life ahead of me and the future still looked bright. This song here sort of epitomizes that era for me.
You're thinking of Jack Kerouac's pal NEAL Cassidy and he drove THIS bus on LSD.
LEAVE JOYCE DEWITT ALONE!
You might want to check out Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” for a most excellent trip down memory lane. Those “Merry Pranksters” were a wild and crazy bunch.
Ken Kesey strikes me more as a libertarian than the far left radical politics of the others of his day (and Kerouac didn’t even stand with them to oppose the war in Vietnam).
Ken Kesey’s second novel was about a man who crosses a union picket line.
He seemed more about going off into the woods of Oregon to raise his family, cut trees, and do his own thing.
Just think a fair number of folks in that pic are running America today.
I don’t know any of the Pranksters to be running things today, but look at the photos of anti-war protests (often advertised under the guise of being a “free concert”), Chicago organized riots, et al AND YOU WILL find persons who’ve attained positions of power and influence in politics and academia.
...she looks just like my classmates at my 45 year reunion...
LOL’s
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