I used to watch Gilligens Island religously when I was a kid. But I think it because I thought Mary Ann was totally hot. I also like Bob Denver's Beatnick character he played in those surf movies.
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Okay, I know it's bad, but it just popped into my brain and I had to get it out of there!
Anyway, McGee, you silly goose... Bob Denver did have a nice voice but he wasn't known for singing. Closest might have been when he sang out, "Skipp-errrrrrrr!"
This is one of the sadder ones. 70 isn't really that old, too. I guess what adds to this is he seems the perpetual "innocent," not only in Gilligan but also in his regular demeanor. You hear of him being busted for pot, you think, "Aw, for God's sakes, it's Bob Denver... just leave him alone."
If you look at his page, www.bobdenver.com, it's filled with his congenialness, too. He speaks reverently of castmates gone before and has tributes to them on his site. His wife, Dreama, also did the web layouts, and did the same for Dawn Wells' site. It's full of fond remembrances all over the place, and he continually seemed to count his blessings for having had the opportunity to be Gilligan and Maynard G. Krebs, rather than grousing about being typecast and not receiving residuals for either.
"Gilligan" was probably one of the first TV shows I ever watched regularly and loved. As a kid, the whole concept really drew me in, and as an adult, it's still fun, pure silliness to watch. Dobie Gillis was apparently hidden for ages as an entirely black and white series stations preferred not to remember with the excitement over color TV... so it was nice to get to finally see some of those when Nick at Nite resurrected it, early '90s or so.
I just read that Bob had made an appearance not too long ago on David Letterman's show... he was one of the "Top Ten things that will make the audience applaud wildly"... and they did.
I'm very grateful to him for the presence he was... and I also am glad to have most all of his other shows just because he was in them... "Far Out Space Nuts," "Dusty's Trail," "The Good Guys," and even the Gilligan cartoons.
By all accounts, a very sweet, dear, gentle man, caring friend, loving husband, father and grandfather. God bless Gilligan, Maynard G. Krebs, and Bob Denver.
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I use to always watch Gilligan as a kid that then The Andy Griffith show. They are still both fun to watch. I never could stand "I love Lucy" (Forgive me) she annoyed the hell out of me.
I would never want a wife like Lucy. she lied, stole the Cubans money, and just annoyed me to no end. RIP Denver we want you, back but stay away from me Lucy! Get behind me! AHHHHHHHHh.
I just bought a DVD copy of "Rescue From Gilligan's Island." Somehow that seems to be in the public domain, because you can find it out there for just a few dollars, released by one of those "generic" companies.
So in that film -- which is silly but has heart to it, thus true to the series -- Gilligan finds a small metal disk, which originated and survived intact from a foreign satellite which had been purposefully destroyed to keep the disk's data from falling into U.S. hands. The disk helps the professor create a working barometer which then tells him of a major storm and tsunami about to hit them. They bind their huts together to weather the storm, end up afloat in this makeshift craft, and are thus rescued once they are seen adrift by the Coast Guard. Their arrival in Hawaii is seen by millions on TV, including two foreign spies who spot the disc as it was being worn by Gilligan as a "good luck" pendant. They spend the rest of the film trying to subdue Gilligan and get it back. One of these two foreign spies is Vincent Schiavelli... who was in both "Taxi" and in "Man on the Moon."
So there's our connection to Bob Denver! Meanwhile, the best laugh I think I got from the film was from the Professor, settled into post-rescue life, earnestly explaining tribal courtship customs to an amorous female professor. He tells her the natives would share the milk from a coconut together by drinking through a straw-like implement known as a "watoobi."
I just read in one of those crazy militiamen-survivalist books today that one should be careful not to consume too much milk from coconuts at once (not more than three or four coconuts worth), as the milk may act as a "violent laxative".
