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Author: randomsurfer

Aug 23rd 2012 at 12:10:54 AM

I'm going to provide a long quote from the book ''Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg'' by Barry Williams, about his time on ''TheBradyBunch''.  You needn't use the whole quote, just summarize it as you will.  Shorter version: even superfamous and powerful parents need to impress their kids with something besides what they usually do.
-->[Following a story about a time when HenryKissinger visited the set.] By now you ''must'' have asked yourself, "Why on earth would Henry Kissinger go out of his way to visit "The Brady Bunch?"  The answer, quite simply, is tht he was trying to impress his daughter.  She ws a big "Brady" fan, and when she asked her father if he might arrange for her to meet us, he simply made a phone call, blew off an afternoon full of globally significant meetings, and arranged for the visit.  I still find it nothing short of amazing that a man who was arguably the single most powerful politician in the world needed "The Brady Bunch" to impress his kid - sort of an eerie commentary on the power of the tube and its significance on the lives of American children.
-->An even more blatant example of the egregiously potent power of "The Bunch" came when astronaut James [=McDivitt=] appeared on the show in a cameo role.  [=McDivitt=] had piloted both NASA's Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, and he had been ot the ''moon'', for chrissake; but when he got to our set, the first words out of his mouth were "Boy, being on "The Brady Bunch" is gonna make me a ''hero'' at my house."
-->Scary, very scary.