Robert Reed, the actor who played Mike Brady, has been excised from all new Brady Bunch memoribilia. The Washington Post investigates the story and is stonewalled by the studio, and so speculates that this comes down to the fact that Reed was gay and died of AIDS, and hence has been expurgated, Trotsky-style, from the official Stalinist Brady brand. but gets the real story from the managers of Reed’s estate — they’ve chosen to remember the actor in other ways. (Thanks for catching my blunder, Erik — I changed coasts last night and I’m really jetlaggy)