The “Brady Bunch” is getting some modern touches for a 21st century relaunch: Mike and Carol were previously married, and their respective ex-spouses are still in their lives. Plus, they have a kid together. No word regarding Alice or Sam the Butcher’s revised characters (the best butcher shop I know in Los Angeles, Lindy and Grundy, is run by a lovely couple, Amelia and Erika, so butcher shops still exist, and Alice might end up being an older tattooed hipster nanny/manny which could be interesting). Vince Vaughn is producing, and the project is at CBS

Growing up in SoCal, where almost everyone I knew was a kid with divorced parents like me, both The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family seemed to be about divorce, and a way of helping kids cope with being in a blended family (as we call them now), or having a single parent. I always wanted an episode of  The Partridge Family where the kids’ dad reappears and wants to take Danny with him…

Deadline Hollywood, which broke the story, points out that in 1969, the show’s creator Sherwood Schwartz (the man behind My Favorite Martian and Gilligan’s Island), a true television genius who addresses vital societal issues in his sitcoms:

 wanted Carol to be a divorcée but the network refused, so the end of her first marriage was never addressed.

My, how things have changed.

Last week I questioned the appropriateness of running the trailers of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn’s upcoming movie “Neighborhood Watch” in light of 17-year old Trayvon Martin’s shooting death at the hands of gun-toting Neighbor Watch captain and cop-wannabe George Zimmerman.

The summer comedy’s distributor, Twentieth Century Fox, has now pulled trailers and posters from Florida theaters

out of respect.

Protests over the shooting death have spread across the country, and director Spike Lee in a bonehead move tweeted the address of the wrong George Zimmerman to half a million people who follow him on Twitter. Dude, if you’re gonna dox somebody, get it right, and don’t make a nice old couple have to hide out in a motel. On the other hand, if the Zimmermans get a good lawyer, Spike may end up funding their retirement account and a nice college fund for their grandkids.  Reacting to Lee’s clumsy use of teh Googles, journalist Mark Ebner tweeted Spike Lee’s address.

In light of 17-year old Trayvon Martin’s shooting death at the hands of gun-toting Neighbor Watch captain and cop-wannabe George Zimmerman, Ben Stiller’s latest movie, Neighborhood Watch, which co-stars Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill as suburban dads who

form a neighborhood watch group to get time away from their families, only to discover a plot to destroy Earth

might not be be most tasteful trailer to be running in theaters right now. The film, written by Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg from a story by Jared Stern and Shawn Levy, is due out July 27 from Twentieth Century Fox. Bad timing.

It was announced Monday that the FBI, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida will investigate the killing of Trayvon Martin, who was unarmed when gunned down by Zimmerman, as a hate crime. Zimmerman did not follow standard Neighborhood Watch guidelines, and 911 tapes showed Zimmerman ignored a dispatcher’s directive not to pursue Martin. The Sanford FL police department has come under fire for their botched handling of the case, including:

● Withholding a batch of telling 911 calls, including the one revealing Zimmerman’s possible racist remark.

● Sending a narcotics detective to the scene, instead of a homicide detective, as is typical for homicides.

● And failing to administer a drug and alcohol test to Zimmerman that night, which homicide investigator Rod Wheeler called a “fatal flaw in the investigation.”

Additionally the police did not contact Trayvon’s girlfriend who was on the phone with him at the time of his fatal encounter with Zimmerman.