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sky429	Micky's glasses	Lead	[-]
Posts: 16 (05/17/08 12:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The episode, "The Picture Frame" is on OnDemand right now, and of course, Micky wears his glasses in the courtroom scenes. I also saw him wear them in "Monkee Mother", in the fight scene in "Head", and in pictures from the Headquarters recording sessions. I've read that they were really his glasses. So, my question is: did he wear contact lenses when he wasn't wearing glasses or did he only need glasses sometimes, like for reading? Or maybe he was walking around pretending to be able to see, LOL. Thanks! "Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster...toward bringing down someone who's found the questions, but no answers."--Michael Nesmith, Daily Nightly, 1967
marnweb		#1	[-]
Posts: 233 (05/17/08 12:57 PM) Globetrotter Cravin' Kasem Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't know, but I think Micky does wear contacts ... interesting question, someone here would know!
NoraLou		#2	[-]
Posts: 9032 (05/17/08 1:30 PM) Rev. Nora Paperback writer Amazing Grace Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have heard they were really his, but can't remember the source. I also know there is a a picture of him and Ami as a child in his bio and he's holding his glasses in them. As a matter of fact I think I might have seen more recent pictures with him having reading glasses on, maybe when he was promoting "Gakky".
The Big Dogma		#3	[-]
Posts: 642 (05/17/08 6:24 PM) GOMOTB Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I wonder if they are "Magic" Glasses...... *"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how* the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt..."Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 "They call me the Bandit without any Pants." BD the GOMOTB(Grumpy Old Man of the Board.....Yeah thats me! whatcha gonna do about it?) "Weasles! They're not just for breakfast anymore!"
sky429		#4	[-]
Posts: 17 (05/17/08 8:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	NoraLou wrote: I also know there is a a picture of him and Ami as a child in his bio and he's holding his glasses in them. Good eyes, Nora! I hadn't noticed that he was holding glasses in that picture. After you posted this, I went and looked in my copy of his book. Yep, glasses. LOL. "Magic" Glasses. giggle "Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster...toward bringing down someone who's found the questions, but no answers."--Michael Nesmith, Daily Nightly, 1967
NoraLou		#5	[-]
Posts: 9034 (05/17/08 8:41 PM) Rev. Nora Paperback writer Amazing Grace Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Good eyes, Nora! Thanks-it's my contacts!
aspiemonkeediva		#6	[-]
Posts: 91 (05/18/08 8:34 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	They were even in Prince and the Pauper, and they are rad!
Monkeegroupies		#7	[-]
Posts: 2198 (05/18/08 7:52 PM) Mauler-Catcher Rosie Mod Squad Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I think I remember reading somewhere that Micky is nearsighted... PS1 WORDS OF WISDOM Everyone seems normal until you get to know them You can't have everything. Where would you put it? I don't get even, I get odder. Stupidity got us into this mess - why can't it get us out? If it ain't broke, fix it till it is. My Reality Check bounced Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool
ScreenGemsStage7		#8	[-]
Posts: 424 (05/18/08 8:17 PM) Gem Finder Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Micky always was very nearsighted. I just posted, in a separate thread, a reprint of a 1967 "16 Magazine" article where Micky talks about just this subject at the very beginning of the piece. Here's part of the article. Micky in the 1967 article said: I CONFESS---I'm near-sighted. Very near-sighted. That means I can't see things that are too far away from me---like, say, six inches from my nose! That's why I'm always squinting on the show (and you thought that was just one of my little jokes!). I've tried contacts, but they don't work on me. Maybe it's that I don't work on them. Anyway, I have three pair of glasses (that I know of---I'm always losing them, you see): one horn-rimmed very round pair, one rectangular pair, and one pair of prescription shades. I can't drive without 'em; I can't eat Kellogg's without 'em; in fact, I can't even walk without 'em. But I can sleep without 'em. Check out the other thread for the full article from 1967.
mickys411	Micky's glasses	#9	[-]
Posts: 106 (05/18/08 9:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I know how that is, I to am near-sighted and squint alot, espcially at night I've been wearing glasses for quite sometime now, and I think I need a new persricption Mickys411 (Laura)
LittleMetalBottletops		#10	[-]
Posts: 2846 (05/18/08 10:03 PM) Mistress of the Marathon Mod Squad Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*"I can't drive without 'em; I can't eat Kellogg's without 'em; in fact, I can't even walk* without 'em. "** Sounds like he usually performed without 'em, though! It reminds me of my younger son. He is quite nearsighted and needs his glasses to see the board at school, watch TV and movies, etc. I think he'd probably be better off just wearing them all the time, but he doesn't want to for some reason, and his eye doctor says it's okay for him to just use them the way he has been, so I don't press the issue.
Monkeegroupies		#11	[-]
Posts: 2199 (05/18/08 10:09 PM) Mauler-Catcher Rosie Mod Squad Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ooh, that's a new one to me SGS! I'm gonna head to your other post and read the rest. The one I was searching for was written by someone for one of the teenybopper mags, and it was things you didn't know about Micky or something like that. The article talked about how shy he is and something about if he walks by you with out saying something, it's not that he's snubbing you-he just can't see you! I've searched but i don't remember where I saw it. PS1 WORDS OF WISDOM Everyone seems normal until you get to know them You can't have everything. Where would you put it? I don't get even, I get odder. Stupidity got us into this mess - why can't it get us out? If it ain't broke, fix it till it is. My Reality Check bounced Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool
NoraLou		#12	[-]
Posts: 9051 (05/20/08 3:18 PM) Rev. Nora Paperback writer Amazing Grace Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	If memory serves (and it doesn't always!), I seem to recall pictures of one of his daughters wearing glasses as well, at a fairly young age. Perhaps the near-sightedness is a family trait? (Speaking as someone who's daughter and father also have glasses!)
sky429		#13	[-]
Posts: 19 (05/20/08 5:43 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You're right, Nora. In his autobiography, there's a picture of one of his daughters wearing glasses. If the caption lists them in the correct order, it's Charlotte. She looks like she's maybe 7 or 8 in the picture. "Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster...toward bringing down someone who's found the questions, but no answers."--Michael Nesmith, Daily Nightly, 1967
NoraLou		#14	[-]
Posts: 9065 (05/22/08 2:32 PM) Rev. Nora Paperback writer Amazing Grace Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Which still begs the question (for me at least), why would he wear glasses in certain scenes and not the whole show? It's not like he would have been any less loveable with them-in fact, I think he looks adorable with glasses on! (Then again, I think he looks darn adorable in general).
dydrmblvr		#15	[-]
Posts: 3037 (05/23/08 3:13 AM) Raspy McSqueaks MandrakeMallard soul peeps Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Nora.....do I need to get the hose out? I loved the glasses he sometimes wore on the show....they were so.....hmmmm......Micky. He did look very cute in those. I remember on one of the occasions during the Pippin tour seeing him with two pairs. I'm assuming one was a spare. He only put them on when he signed his dinner check. I giggled into my napkin as they were perched on the end of his nose.......trust me Micky, I understand completely. (This coming from me who gives myself whiplash from trying to read my computer monitor through my bifocals!!!) Is there such a thing????
sky429		#16	[-]
Posts: 20 (05/23/08 10:28 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	NoraLou wrote: Which still begs the question (for me at least), why would he wear glasses in certain scenes and not the whole show? It's not like he would have been any less loveable with them-in fact, I think he looks adorable with glasses on! (Then again, I think he looks darn adorable in general). Yep, I've been wondering the same thing, LOL. at the bifocal whiplash. I'll be needing bifocals myself pretty soon. "Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster...toward bringing down someone who's found the questions, but no answers."--Michael Nesmith, Daily Nightly, 1967
DavidForever		#17	[-]
Posts: 5830 (05/25/08 2:46 AM) FVB Chopped Liver Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have trifocals, I use the third "focal" for the computer. Sally B.
LittleMetalBottletops		#18	[-]
Posts: 2877 (05/26/08 8:17 PM) Mistress of the Marathon Mod Squad Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	NoraLou wrote: Which still begs the question (for me at least), why would he wear glasses in certain scenes and not the whole show? It's not like he would have been any less loveable with them-in fact, I think he looks adorable with glasses on! Well.... I think it's a nice touch that he wore the glasses sometimes, but I do think he's a lot more attractive without them.
NoraLou		#19	[-]
Posts: 9106 (05/27/08 12:29 AM) Rev. Nora Paperback writer Amazing Grace Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	True-they may have hid his handsome eyes if he'd had them on all the time.
Writer2Be2007		#20	[-]
Posts: 504 (05/28/08 4:49 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I am nearsighted as well. I need my glasses for driving especially. However, when I'm at home, I don't wear my glasses usually and I can see the computer monitor fine without them. I have found that going a while without the glasses on and then looking far away I can see better without the glasses on somewhat. Shhhh, I have even driven without them when they are needed for driving. Well, when you can't find them at the time, you kinda need an alternative since you lost your previous pairs of glasses as well. I've lost two pairs of my glasses and they were my current prescription so I am wearing my older ones that are a different prescription. I'm fine seeing with them. I just like to rest my eyes from wearing the glasses when I'm at home, as I can still see perfectly fine at home since everything is close-up.
PeterTorksgal1970		#21	[-]
Posts: 157 (06/09/08 3:52 PM) stitchy woman Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I too am near sighted and can not see far away without them. I will squint sometimes to see something far away when i don't have them on lol. (is there such a thing as not being able to type correct today for me or what?) Karen "That until mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all living things,he will never,himself,no peace." Albert Schweitzer
Mare55		#22	[-]
Posts: 512 (06/09/08 6:57 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have been wearing glasses since the age of 2 when my parents discovered I had a lazy eye. Had to wear an eye patch for awhile. I was always farsighted but now that I'm an old fogie I am nearsighted as well.
Mare55		#23	[-]
Posts: 515 (06/09/08 7:17 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	sky429 wrote: The episode, "The Picture Frame" is on OnDemand right now, and of course, Micky wears his glasses in the courtroom scenes. I also saw him wear them in "Monkee Mother", in the fight scene in "Head", and in pictures from the Headquarters recording sessions. I've read that they were really his glasses. So, my question is: did he wear contact lenses when he wasn't wearing glasses or did he only need glasses sometimes, like for reading? Or maybe he was walking around pretending to be able to see, LOL. Thanks! I just found out that the Monkees are not on On Demand for Comcast anymore! It's too bad because I enjoyed seeing which episode was coming on for that week and going back to previous ones. They didn't even play all of them. What a shame..
sky429		#24	[-]
Posts: 45 (06/09/08 8:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	What??!! checks OnDemand NOOOOO!!!!! "Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster...toward bringing down someone who's found the questions, but no answers."--Michael Nesmith, Daily Nightly, 1967 Last Edited By: sky429 06/09/08 8:16 PM. Edited 1 times.
sky429		#25	[-]
Posts: 46 (06/09/08 8:26 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	If they had played all the episodes, I wouldn't have minded so much. And I really don't want to put out $135 right now to buy both seasons on Amazon. I was hoping to do that for Christmas (because several family members usually give me Amazon gift certificates). OnDemand did the same thing last year--my husband really enjoyed Soap, and he looked forward to a new episode every week. Then suddenly, no more Soap! I just sent a friendly (reasonably) e-mail to Comcast via their "feedback" link. Here it is if anyone wants to join me. http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/Customers/contactus/ContactUs.html Scroll down to #6--"e-mail Rick". "Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster...toward bringing down someone who's found the questions, but no answers."--Michael Nesmith, Daily Nightly, 1967 Last Edited By: sky429 06/09/08 8:35 PM. Edited 3 times.