{"id":498,"date":"2011-08-09T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/?p=498"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:17:08","slug":"the-providence-journal-review-film-probes-grit-beneath-cowsills%e2%80%99-squeaky-clean-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/2011\/08\/the-providence-journal-review-film-probes-grit-beneath-cowsills%e2%80%99-squeaky-clean-image\/","title":{"rendered":"The Providence Journal &#8211; Review: Film probes grit beneath Cowsills\u2019 squeaky-clean image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Michael Janusonis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Journal Arts Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cowsills, a Newport-based family group of singers who inspired \u201cThe Partridge Family\u201d TV series, became Billboard chart toppers in the late 1960s thanks to their squeaky clean image and catchy tunes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rain, The Park, And Other Things;\u201d \u201cWe Can Fly,\u201d \u201cIndian Lake\u201d and later in the hippie era, \u201cHair,\u201d were among their hits, performed at the height of their popularity by five brothers, sister Susan and their mother, Barbara. They were paraded in front of the TV cameras with the likes of Ed Sullivan, Dean Martin, Mike Douglas, Johnny Carson, Johnny Cash, Buddy Ebsen, even Hugh Hefner. They had their own TV special and screaming girl fans. They seemed happy and carefree and intensely talented.<\/p>\n<p>But behind the glare of the spotlights &#8230; &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/movies\/content\/CONNECT_Cowsills_movie_review_08-09-11_5CPEC4_v13.36791.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the review at The Providence Journal<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Janusonis Journal Arts Writer The Cowsills, a Newport-based family group of singers who inspired \u201cThe Partridge Family\u201d TV series, became Billboard chart toppers in the late 1960s thanks to their squeaky clean image and catchy tunes. \u201cThe Rain, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/2011\/08\/the-providence-journal-review-film-probes-grit-beneath-cowsills%e2%80%99-squeaky-clean-image\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}