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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream," said Edgar Allan Poe.
If you are of a certain age you certainly remember the singing family pop band, The Cowsills. They hit it big in 1967 with "The Rain, the Park and Other Things," "Indian Lake" and their hugely popular version of "Hair" followed in 1968 and 1969. (There was something deliciously subversive about the innocent Cowsills singing a song from that notorious, groundbreaking musical.) The Cowsills were actuallly the basis of the TV series "The Partridge Family."
From the outside, they were simply perfect - a sunny, shiney, all-American success story - but behind the scenes there was a brutal, tyrannical father/manager, sexual abuse, drugs, all manner of things that were so not the Cowsills image. After only a few years, the group splintered and disbanded.
Now filmmaker Louise Palaker is set to release a documentary, "Family Band: The Cowsills Story." She has worked on this movie for seven years and has edited it to a concise and compelling 90 minutees.
Our PR pal in Hollywod, Hal Lifson, who is also a devotee of all things 1960s, says Palanker's film "is not just the story of a dysfunctional family, but of a tumultuous dysfunctional era." Lifson thinks the Cowsills tale might even spawn a feature film. Well, why not? We've just about exhausted early '60s nostalgia why not give the latter part of the decade a go?
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