The Cowsills In Books

There are a trio of new sitcoms: The Partridge Family, about a group of rock singers whose mommy heads up the unit; extrapolating cunningly, I parse this to be a vehicle for The Cowsills. Whoopee! The Odd Couple with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman doing the Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau roles from the Neil Simon film. Barefoot in the Park, starring Nipsey Russell and Scoey Mitchell, converts the Doc Simon Broadway hit and film from white to black . . .