"Micky's Own True Confessions"
from: Teen Life 6/67
Thanks to KLyn for the typing
Q. Where were you born?
A. L.A. 1945, March 8.
Q. Where did you go to school?
A. I went to a private school in the Valley with some of the all-time
great people, like Steve Allen's kid, until I got the Circus Boy thing,
sometime in 1955. I was in the 7th grade. When I got back off
Circus Boy, I went to Walter Reed Jr High school, where I did the
ninth grade. And because I was too young to go to high school I had
to take the ninth grade all over again at Van Nuys Jr Hi, because I
would have been in high school when I was 12 years old which is
kind of young to be in high school. So they kept me out until I was
old enough. The I went to Grant High School for three years and
graduated--barely.
Then I went to get a job as a Mercedes Benz assistant mechanic
'cause I wanted to get out in the world. Then I started Valley College
in 1963. After I started college my father passed away, so I quit and
went back the next semester, and didn't really like it because I felt it
wasn't doing anything for me at all. So then I decided to go to a trade
technical college because I wanted to get something done and I really
dug architectural drafting and the whole thing. And I always wanted to
be something in that field, planning on electrical engineering or
something like that.
What happened was that my mom moved up North and I was going
to go up with her after I finished college, but I decided to stay down
here. For various reasons, one of them being romantic. And I'm kind
of glad I did stay, because I wouldn't have gone on the first interview
for the Monkee thing and I wouldn't be here right now if I hadn't stayed
down here.
Q. Do you feel that you're in show business on your own this time?
A. I always was, explain that.
Q. Do you feel it was your own decision? Do you have more confidence?
A. I always wanted to be in show business. I was fortunate in that I
never tried. It was put upon me, "Hey, do you want to do a TV series?"
'Cause I had no idea. My father was in it, but there was no glamor or
glory in it for me because I saw show business as it really is behind the
scenes and there wasn't all the glory and everything. I always wanted to
do it but I didn't know whether I had the talent or whatever to really be
able to make it and really make a life out of it.
You know, a lot of people can be actors. You have to have something else
going for you, too. So I was determined--I talked to Lillian Barkley here
at the studio, the school teacher who's an old friend of mine from the old
days. She said why don't I stay down here and give it one more try. Stay
out here this summer--last summer--go to school and give it one more try.
And if I couldn't make it, I'd just say I couldn't make it. So I decided
to stay and try and I'm glad I did because this thing is working out
pretty well.
Q. How did the romance work out?
A. It didn't. It was not cool at all.
Q. What kind of girls do you date?
A. I'm girl crazy and I'll be the first one to admit it, I just dig
girls. Some more than others.
Q. So you don't restrict yourself to any one type?
A. No. Oh, athe type of girl I like? I always look at blondes, the type
with long blonde hair. That'll always catch my eye. A blonde doesn't have
to be pointed out at all, she catches my eye right off. I've dug a lot of
other girls who didn't have long blonde hair, but I've had to be
introduced to them. And they had to be pointed out to me. For some
reasons, the long blonde hair just attracts my attention.
Q. Do you play the field?
A. I love to mess around and have a lot of fun and I mess around with as
many girls as I can. And it's a lot of fun for a while then I say, "Gee,
I sure would like to have one girl--not settle down--that I can call my
girl." So when anybody says, "Hey, Micky, how's so and so," I'll know who
they mean. When you're associated with a girl, when people think of you
they automatically think of her. And besides, you always have somebody to
go somewhere with and somebody who cares what you did all day long and
somebody who cares if you feel good or don't feel good. Then what I'll do
is usually get myself in that situation and go alone like that for maybe
six months, then all of a sudden decide I want to go out and mess around
again.
Q. What is your ultimate goal, professionally...?
A. I believe there are only two goals, or let's say successes. If you had
a chart, up at the top you'd have two main successes that branch off like
plant and animal. One is success in relation to other prople, that means
business, social, financial, that type of success. That's one. The other
one, I believe is success in raising a family, because a lot of people
think families are old fashioned, but I think it's a definite part of
life. In other words, promotion of the species. If you want to bring it
down to there. Progress.
Q. How do you feel about change as opposed to tradition?
A. Well, I don't believe it's possible. I don't see how people can
honestly believe in tradition. Tradition is great, man, but I believe that
people who hang on to traditions or to old-fashioned ideas are afraid of
the present. They're insecure. I don't see how you can possibly live in
the past or hang on to old traditions, that doesn't mean knock them. But
just relate to them as old beautiful traditions and old ways of life. But
progress is changing and if we are to get anywhere we have to at least
live in the present, I don't say live in the future. There are a lot of
people that I don't agree with at all that do things too fast and make too
many changes at once. There has to be a definite rate of change, but you
can't hang on to things in the past because it'll drag you down.
In a boat you drop the anchor, but if you want to move you pull the
anchor up or you're not going to move.
Q. Have you any brothers or sisters?
A. I've got three sisters. Gemma is 17. Coco's her nickname, Debbie is 8,
Gina is 5. They live up North with my mother. My mother remarried about a
year ago. My mother's name is Jannelle and my father is a minister, Dr.
Robert Scott. He's a lecturer.
- --as told to Marilyn Beck
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