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Los Angeles’ based writer and music historian Harvey Kubernik remembers the firebrand that made The Monkees freak out. Pictures by Henry Diltz

My brother Kenneth and my mother Hilda just called me with the news of Bob Rafelson’s passing.

I first encountered maverick television/film producer and writer Bob Rafelson in very late 1965 in Hollywood at Gower Gulch inside the Columbia Pictures studios. My bio-regional relationship began with Rafelson, his partner Bert Schneider of Raybert Productions, and their TV series The Monkees,

My mother Hilda was employed at Columbia Pictures on Sunset Blvd. from ’62-72, and primarily during ’65-68 for Raybert Productions, helmed by producers Bob and Bert. Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker had developed it for TV adaptation.

Hilda helped type the television scripts for The Monkees, was in the stenography pool on the lot and did dictation for author and screenwriter Lillian Hellman. She worked for Marty Erlichman who managed Barbra Streisand and Peter Guber in his first job in ’68 at Columbia as a management trainee.

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Bob Rafelson

American film director (1933–2022)

Bob Rafelson
Rafelson in 2009
Born	Robert Rafelson (1933-02-21)February 21, 1933 New York City, U.S
Died	July 23, 2022(2022-07-23) (aged 89) Aspen, Colorado, U.S.
Education	Dartmouth College
Occupations	Film director producer screenwriter
Years active	1959–2002
Spouses	Toby Carr (m. 1955; div. 1977) Gabrielle Taurek (m. 1999)
Children	4

Robert Jay Rafelson (February 21, 1933 – July 23, 2022) was an American film director, writer and producer. He is regarded as one of the key figures in the founding of the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s. Among his best-known films as a director include those made as part of the company he co-founded, Raybert/BBS Productions, Five Easy Pieces (1970) and The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) as well as acclaimed later films, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and Mountains of the Moon (1990). Other films he produced as part o

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Obituary: Bob Rafelson

He was a leading figure in the American new wave of directors of the late 1960s and early 1970s who were credited with creating the “New Hollywood”.

With such films as Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson, who has died aged 89, was part of a creative and innovative movement that helped transform American cinema by ushering in an anti-establishment ethos. It bridged the gap between the dying studio system of the mostly Jewish Hollywood moguls, and the new counterculture.

An enthusiastic drug taker himself, his iconoclastic films Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider and The King of Marvin Gardens often featured drug culture.

He regularly collaborated with Jack Nicholson, helping to cement the actor’s position as a Hollywood star, making films that influenced a younger generation of directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson.

With his Jewish friend Bert Schneider, Rafelson developed the original concept for The Monkees, a fictional rock band closely modelled on The Beatles that formed the basis of the 1966 television sitcom and series of albums. Bo