Normaly, we here at JOZINE pass over any official news from Archie's Comics. They're getting repetative and desprate and there's that DeCarlo treatment problem we have trouble with. THEN we saw this cover (left) of Archie #608! WOW!
The title of the story is called It Starts With A Kiss and it's coming out in April! Beyond that, well, let the chips fall where they may!.
JOZINE is happy to report that Dan DeCarlo is now officially on the internet! www.dandecarlo.com was launched sometime ago with just a couple of pages, but now, it's a much MUCH bigger site: lots of videos and art, newsletter registration and biography information on not just Dan but Josie and their two sons….and it looks official as the copyright notice is registered to Josie herself, so this is a good sign.
We’re happy to see that this big site is helping to claim Dan’s legacy and hope they will do a much better job of it than Archies’…and with screaming fanboys like yours truly.
Rapper Nick Cannon is taking Josie by the tail and is planning a multi-media relaunch campaign for her in 2010. An audition for live Josie members has just been announced with a TV series for Nickelodeon and books planned for later this year.
This isn’t the first time Archie has attempted a live concert version of Josie as they announced a similar campaign way back in 2001 just before the Universal movie. That time, it was done in partnership with the infamous Lou Perlman, the man behind N*Sync and Backstreet Boys and is currently in jail for 25 years for embezzlement and was a subject of an episode of CNBC’s American Greed.
Click HERE for details and let’s see what happens.
As many of you already know, JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS: THE COMPLETE SERIES was released. This package contains the full first season of the TV series on 2 DVD’s; actually it’s 3 DVD’s as the second disc is double sided. The only special feature included here is the long rumored documentary on Josie creator, Dan DeCarlo.
The digital transfer of the old shows is quite good, though thanks to the high quality, you can clearly see the occasional light reflections on the original animation cells. Good old Hanna-Barbera!
As for the documentary, it was quite good and informative. They interviewed friends and colleges like Bill Morrison, Scott Shaw, Stan Lee, Casey Kasem and, the inspiration of it all, Dan’s widow, Josie DeCarlo! The big shocker was that they even interviewed Archie Comics president Michael Silberkleit! For those of you who kept up with recent Josie/Jozine history, you might know all about the crap Silberkleit gave DeCarlo during the 2001 movie and towards the end of Dan’s life.
I am glad that DeCarlo was mentioned through out the documentary as well as the package as the creator of the whole deal, even though the end credits mentions the legal BS that Archie created Josie based from Dan’s ideas….even though the program proved vise versa.
Still, fanboy grudge aside, I can’t complain much. I’m just glad that the thing got released and Dan and the real Josie got some deserved credit.
No word as to if/when the ‘Outer Space’ episodes will see similar treatment.
Singing Pussycat member, PATRICE HOLLWAY, had passed away of a heart attack in October 1, 2006 and was laid to rest on the 16th in Los Angeles, CA.
This announcement was a shock as, outside of CHERYL LADD, very little is known (or documented) of the rest of the Pussycats after they were let go by Capitol Records. While Cathy Douglas was never to be heard in the entertainment industry again, Ms. Holloway continued with her multi-talented career as background singer and writer, though her solo recordings slowly ended after ‘Josie’.
Stuffed Animal (a. k. a. Don Charles), who also wrote the Josie article for the late and great Cool & Strange Music Magazine, has written a well researched and lengthy obituary on Ms. Holloway for the pop music web site SPECTROPOP. We thank the writer and the web site for “finding” Ms. Holloway, though this was under very sad circumstances.
