The lack of irony in this story from the Tribune over the weekend is disturbing:
FANS THINK THEY STILL LOVE TEEN IDOL CASSIDY
`PARTRIDGE FAMILY' STAR AT FAIR TO PROMOTE CEREAL
GEORGE GRAHAM Tribune correspondent
PLANT CITY - It's been about three decades since ``The Partridge Family'' ended its four-year run on ABC-TV, but David Cassidy's fans still love him.
`He's still hot after 30 years,'' sighed Rhonda Martinez of Seffner as she watched him perform Thursday at the Florida Strawberry Festival. Martinez was one of the millions of teens and preteens around the world who idolized Cassidy when he played Keith Partridge on the early 1970s sitcom.
``I must've been 11 or 12 years old,'' said Martinez, who now has a 12-year-old daughter. ``I had his pictures plastered everywhere.''
She brought ``The Partridge Family's Greatest Hits'' CD, hoping to have it autographed, but didn't get to Cassidy in time. A publicist took her name and address and promised to mail her Cassidy's autograph.
Tricia McIntire drove more than an hour from her home in New Port Richey to hear Cassidy sing ``I Think I Love You'' at the mock marriage of a dapper ``Cheerio'' to a seductive ``strawberry.'' The event helped kick off a new General Mills cereal called Berry Burst Cheerios, which features freeze-dried strawberries.
Question: Is it technically a mixed marriage when a cereal marries a fruit?