Still Waiting...

[Pretty Funky]

An annual round-up of promised/ proposed Beach Boys related projects that never see the light of day.


www.beachboyscentral.com  (BBs own website)

www.aljardine.com  (A Postcard From California)

Unleash the Love (Mike Love)

Brian Wilson Bio

....Did I miss anything?

[Wrightfan]

Chinese Democracy has beaten Beach Boys Central so I'm not as hopeful anymore. 

It'll probably come out around the same time as Duke Nukem Forever 

[Jason]

It'll probably come out around the same time as Duke Nukem Forever 

TRUE THAT!

I was looking forward to that game. Now the Duke fad is over. Let the man die.

[Jay]

I'm actually DREADING the Brian bio movie. It'll just turn into another Oliver Stone "The Doors" debacle. 

[Jason]

(Brian stumbles into the house wearing an open bathrobe)

Brian - Mar, did you bake me that big birthday cake you promised me?
Marilyn - No, I didn't. Dr. Landy told me not to.

(Brian grunts)

Brian - I'm a prisoner in my own house. Gene doesn't understand me, you don't understand me, and the Beach Boys don't understand me!
Marilyn - BRIAN! LOOK AT ME! I AM YOUR WIFE! I AM THE MOTHER OF YOUR CHILDREN! I DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE THIS bullmerda FROM YOU!

(Cut to 1978)
(Carnie is playing with her toys)

Brian - Carnie, hey, check this out! (Offers the girl heroin)
Carnie - Daddy, what is this?
Brian - It's good for you. It's powdered sugar.
Carnie - MOMMY! MOMMY!
Marilyn - Brian, how DARE you offer your dope to MY DAUGHTER! That's it! GET THE foda OUT OF MY HOUSE! (She grabs a knife) GET THE foda OUT NOW!

Oh yes, it'll be Summer Dreams bad but probably with better beards at least.

[Aegir]

My least favorite part about Summer Dreams was the beards.

I really wouldn't mind either of the horrible TV movies if hardcore fans were the only people that saw them. I'm just afraid they gave casual fans (and people who weren't fans at all) horrible misconceptions about the band, specifically Brian.

[Jason]

Summer Dreams did it for all the band members in my opinion.

It was like you had Brian, The Genius, Mike, The Frontman, Carl, The Chubby One, Dennis, The Wild Man, and some other dude. If I was Al Jardine I'd have sued for slander.

[The Heartical Don]

My least favorite part about Summer Dreams was the beards.

I really wouldn't mind either of the horrible TV movies if hardcore fans were the only people that saw them. I'm just afraid they gave casual fans (and people who weren't fans at all) horrible misconceptions about the band, specifically Brian.

SD is a true cult movie. I don't mind what misconceptions it might have produced: casual fans might have forgotten its contents anyway through all the beer they consumed whilst watching it.
The beards were fabulous. Like: 15 year old boys with ape hair glued to their faces.
And the actor playing Murry should have got an Oscar.

'Gene, I wanna release SMiLE after all! The world is ready for it!'
'No Brian, not yet; first we're going to do an album called 'Sweet Insanity' to complete the healing process. And take your Thorazine, you know it makes cents!'

[mikeyj]

I really wouldn't mind either of the horrible TV movies if hardcore fans were the only people that saw them. I'm just afraid they gave casual fans (and people who weren't fans at all) horrible misconceptions about the band, specifically Brian.

Well I don't mind American Family so much, cause that's what got me interested in the band in the first place (and I know there is another user on here that also got interested due to that film as well)... I think it's okay cause at least it has the actual music and not just some random guys singing & playing... I mean the music is what counts, right?

[The Heartical Don]

I really wouldn't mind either of the horrible TV movies if hardcore fans were the only people that saw them. I'm just afraid they gave casual fans (and people who weren't fans at all) horrible misconceptions about the band, specifically Brian.

Well I don't mind American Family so much, cause that's what got me interested in the band in the first place (and I know there is another user on here that also got interested due to that film as well)... I think it's okay cause at least it has the actual music and not just some random guys singing & playing... I mean the music is what counts, right?

Is American Family the one where VDP was portrayed as some sort of drug peddler? I recall he got very angry about one of those biopic things...

[mikeyj]

Is American Family the one where VDP was portrayed as some sort of drug peddler? I recall he got very angry about one of those biopic things...

Yeah I think that's the one.. I haven't seen it for a while though

[Alex]

I really wouldn't mind either of the horrible TV movies if hardcore fans were the only people that saw them. I'm just afraid they gave casual fans (and people who weren't fans at all) horrible misconceptions about the band, specifically Brian.

Well I don't mind American Family so much, cause that's what got me interested in the band in the first place (and I know there is another user on here that also got interested due to that film as well)... I think it's okay cause at least it has the actual music and not just some random guys singing & playing... I mean the music is what counts, right?

Is American Family the one where VDP was portrayed as some sort of drug peddler? I recall he got very angry about one of those biopic things...

And a guy named 'Tommy Schaefer' turned Brian on to drugs!

[grillo]

...(and I know there is another user on here ...

I love that you think of yourself as a Beach Boys user! I too am addicted.

[Chris Brown]

Is American Family the one where VDP was portrayed as some sort of drug peddler? I recall he got very angry about one of those biopic things...

Yeah I think that's the one.. I haven't seen it for a while though

Yes it was indeed "American Family" that Van Dyke got agitated over (and rightfully so, in my opinion).  After the first airing they had to change the character's name because Van Dyke had threatened legal action. 

[sockittome]

Is American Family the one where VDP was portrayed as some sort of drug peddler? I recall he got very angry about one of those biopic things...

Yeah I think that's the one.. I haven't seen it for a while though

Yes it was indeed "American Family" that Van Dyke got agitated over (and rightfully so, in my opinion).  After the first airing they had to change the character's name because Van Dyke had threatened legal action. 

The problem was that they made him out to be some goateed hippy dude.  The only thing that made him recognizable as VDP was the snappy dialogue.

[Amanda Hart]

The problem was that they made him out to be some goateed hippy dude.  The only thing that made him recognizable as VDP was the snappy dialogue.

What was annoying about that though was they were actual quotes, but stuff he said in mostly the 70s (It's OK TV Special) and way out of context.  They did that with Murry too, using stuff he said from the Rhonda session.

[sockittome]

Oh, yeah, that was the other thing that annoyed me.  They took a lot of liberties with the time frame, which makes an entertaining story for Joe Public, but for people like us who know much of the real story...urk! 

[punkinhead]

Why dont we make a list of stuff we waited on forever, stuff that we didnt think would see the light of day

[Pretty Funky]

December again!

Just thought it was time to cross off all the above projects we were waiting on 12 months ago.

[the captain]

If it makes anyone feel any better, we're still awaiting "Hapworth 16, 1924," too. Although we did get "The Original of Laura" this year, so another long-time holdout bites the dust.

[Surfer Joe]

Luther, once again, you and I are on the same page on another subject.  About ten-fifteen years ago I went to Dutton's Books on Hollywood Blvd. once a week to make sure the projected release of Hapworth 16, 1924 was still on track. Yep, still set for September" (or whatever it was). And then, inevitably: "Nope, withdrawn".

"The Original Laura"- are you referring to the Gene Tierney film, or what?

[Aegir]

People always like to imagine a world where Smile had been released in 1967, but just imagine a world where BWPS was never released.

Well, the world at large would see little difference, but our little lives would be impacted.

[the captain]

"The Original Laura"- are you referring to the Gene Tierney film, or what?

The Vladimir Nabokov would-be novel, released in postcards-draft form this year on the authority of his son Dmitri.

[Sheriff John Stone]

....but just imagine a world where BWPS was never released.

And I think to myself....what a wonderful world....

[the captain]

Because then we could have more "what if" threads about Smile. Oh, wait...