So this article with Roxanne is really long and I don't feel like typing it all out, so here's the only decent part of the article when Roxanne tells about how she hooked up with Micky, dig?

After that, things really began to happen. I was in the Red Velvet one night, (that's a club on Sunset in Hollywood), and Micky Dolenz walked in. This was way before anything happened with The Monkees. They were just working together, they hadn't made any films or anything.

We got to talking and I told him I wanted to be an actress and he said he wanted to be a good actor. I told him about some of the things I'd done and mentioned that I was already in the unions (I'd had to join in order to work on television.) I was really surprised the next day when I got called for an interview. They wanted me to be on the pilot film for the Monkees!

The Monkees Pilot

The pilot is the first film they make-- it's the one that they use to sell the show to a sponsor, so it has to be very good. Well, I got to be on that very first film!

I reported for work and believe me, it was work! We had to be in the studio for makeup at 7:30 in the morning and we worked until 7:30 at night. The whole cast worked very hard, but the Monkees had it the roughest of all because they were learning how to work together for records too. They worked even longer than the rest of us did.

Starts Dating Micky

Micky and I sort of hit it off from the first. I thought he was one of the funniest people I'd ever met. He was always moving around, always saying or doing something that was outasite. He never just stood anywhere talking, he always had to be doing something funny.

That first night I was pretty tired, but Micky asked me to stick around after the rest of the cast had left for the evening. I did, and watched the guys perform all by themselves. It was outasite!

After the guys called it a day Micky and I went to Bob's Big Boy Drive-In for a hamburger (Wow, he took her to Bob's Big Boy. Micky knows a way to get a chick to sleep with him. Classy guy.) After that we went over to his place and listened to Beatle records.

We went together for about 6 months, and Micky is one of the greatest people I've ever known. All the Monkees are. I worked on about seven films and so I got to know all of them very well, and they are some of my best friends. Even though Micky and I aren't going together anymore, we're still the best of friends and I can call on him anytime I need him.



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