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The Pussycats: Josie And The Pussycats
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Josie And The Pussycats premiered on CBS on September 12, 1970. The series is about an all-girl rock group called the Pussycats, and their lead singer Josie. It is a Hanna-Barbera Production.
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Josie & The Pussycats follows the adventures of a rock & roll band that comes across all sorts of adventures along the way. The group consists of Josie, their guitar-playing leader; Valerie, the brilliant tamborine-player; Melody, the naive and optimistic drummer; Alan, Josie's love-interest; Alexander, the group's cowardly manager; Alexandra, Alexander's pesky sister who constantly tries to upstage Josie and be Alan's main squeeze; and of course, Sebastian, Alexandra's fiesty cat.
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In their junior Playboy kitty ears, the Pussycats have little more grip as characters than they did as '70s feline rockers spun off from the Archie comics. That's the film's principal drawback -- sorry, but Rachael Leigh Cook is not the new Cameron Diaz. Cook has a withdrawn mannequin glumness that makes it look as if she's had cosmetic surgery directly on her gene pool. She exudes an endearing earnestness in the concert scenes, though, and she helps to balance out the studious chicklet daffiness of Tara Reid's Melody, a one joke character who expands to a joke and a quarter when she has to fend off an attack by Reid's real life fiancé, MTV's Buddha of shill, Carson Daly. ''Josie and the Pussycats'' is hardly a good movie, but it's as flashy in its postmodern hard sell as a leopard skin spandex tank top. Could Josie be the new Britney?
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Josie and the Pussycats (but not Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space) was re-run on NBC Saturday morning for the 1975-1976 season. In the mid-1980s, both series, along with a number of other 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons (including Jabberjaw, Jeannie, and Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch), were shown on the USA Network's USA Kids Club. They would next appear on Cartoon Network in 1992 (where all 32 episodes were run in the same timeslot). Josie and the Pussycats and Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space are often seen today on Cartoon Network's spinoff channel Boomerang. A Cartoon Network bumper, called "Musical Evolution", featured the Pussycats performing their theme song through the various eras of pop music, including pop, disco, punk, Kiss-like heavy metal, country, and grunge (this may have been an inspiration for the similar Red Hot Chili Peppers' video for Dani California).
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Josie and the Pussycats is as spangly and shallow and artificial as its trio of pastel hearted girl group heroines, but give it this much: The movie's got bounce. Spanked along by a soundtrack that has a surprising punky bite for something aimed at 13-year-olds (the super catchy songs are like bubblegum Sleater-Kinney crossed with Joan Jett), the picture can make you long for the intellectual refinement of, say, the ''Charlie's Angels'' movie, but it offers a kind of junior high dose of the same rebel fashion plate swagger. Like Elvis films, the Monkees, or the entire career of the Spice Girls, ''Josie and the Pussycats'' is a great big soundtrack and image marketing juggernaut packaged as a ''knowing'' youthquake satire, one that dares to ask the question: Can a rock musical make devious fun of prefab, disposable, faux cool teen pop, even if it exists for no other reason than to package fresh new icons of prefab, disposable, faux cool teen pop? You bet your electric blue hip huggers it can.
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Josie and the Pussycats: The Complete Series will include a bonus documentary focusing on Josie and the Pussycats designer, Dan DeCarlo. Titled: The Allure and Charm of Dan DeCarlo, the documentary tells the story of the comic book artist, turned gag cartoonist and illustrator, who contributed to the creation of the legendary Archie comics’ as well as some of the most racy golden age pin up girl art to date. The ironies of this life and the beauty derived from tragedy are what defined Dan as a gentleman, artist and father. The documentary explores the man’s life through the words of his biographer as well as colleagues from his professional life, including renowned comic book superhero creator Stan Lee.
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