[bomp] Stairway to Gilligan's Island Bob is now with John Denver...

[Louis Shukat <louis_shukat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ericka,

what I want to know is why they pulled a "Jim
Morrison" on us with Bobby Denver.  

He left us on 9/2 and we don't find out till almost a
week later.

Was he writing poetry with Morrison?

or did he take off in John Denver's plane to the 
Bermuda Triangle?

How do I get a copy to download of 
STAIRWAY TO GILLIGAN'S ISLAND.  I've only heard it
once about 25 years ago

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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Bob Denver -- starred in 'Gilligan's Island'
Peter Hartlaub, Chronicle Pop Culture Critic

Wednesday, September 7, 2005
 
Bob Denver, whose "three-hour tour" as the lead
character on  television's "Gilligan's Island" led to
four decades as one of popular 
culture's most recognizable icons, has died. He was
70.

Mr. Denver had undergone quadruple bypass surgery in
May, but he died  Friday at Wake Forest University
Baptist Hospital in North Carolina 
from complications of cancer, his agent said.

Mr. Denver starred in several other television shows,
including his 
role as bongo-loving beatnik Maynard G. Krebs in the
1959 series "The 
Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." But once he put on the
white sailor hat in 
1964 for the role of Willie Gilligan, it was hard to
imagine him 
wearing anything else.

The show ran on CBS for only three years, and never
finished higher 
than 18th in the seasonal ratings. But it was a huge
hit in 
syndication, where the slapstick antics of the Skipper
and his "little 
buddy" Gilligan were rediscovered by generations of
children and 
guilty-pleasure-seeking adults.

"As silly as it seems to all of us, it has made a
difference in a lot 
of children's lives," Dawn Wells, who played castaway
Mary Ann Summers, 
once said. "Gilligan is a buffoon that makes mistakes,
and I cannot 
tell you how many kids come up and say, 'But you loved
him anyway.' "

While some of his sitcom contemporaries fought
typecasting, Mr. Denver 
seemed to embrace the character, willing to talk to
fans about the 
role. Even in his later years, he would answer
questions about 
Gilligan, no matter how trivial, on his Web site.

"Did it hurt when the skipper hit you with his hat?"
one fan asked 
recently.

"Since I was getting whacked with his hat every time I
turned around, 
it's a good thing Alan (Hale Jr.) and I liked each
other so much," Mr. 
Denver responded. "He really was a gentle giant and
made a big effort 
never to hurt me in any of the gags we did. Even the
hammock gags, 
where he'd fall on me or vice versa, never injured
either of us."

Many of Mr. Denver's acting roles from the 1960s until
his death were 
Gilligan-related, including the 1981 movie "The Harlem
Globetrotters on 
Gilligan's Island," the 1982 animated series
"Gilligan's Planet" and 
guest roles as Gilligan on "Baywatch," "ALF" and
"Roseanne."

While he may not have been the most respected comedic
actor of his 
generation, he was among the most identifiable. But he
wasn't 
immediately famous, graduating from Loyola University
in Los Angeles 
and working as a high school teacher and mail carrier
before landing 
the role on "Dobie Gillis."

Later, after 98 episodes of "Gilligan's Island," Mr.
Denver starred in 
television sitcoms including "Dusty's Trail" (1973)
and "Far Out Space 
Nuts" (1975), although neither lasted long. He also
wrote a book, 
"Gilligan, Maynard & Me" (1993), about his two most
famous roles.

Mr. Denver was preceded in death by fellow cast
members Hale (the 
Skipper) and Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer (the
millionaire and his 
wife). The three remaining castaways, including
Russell "The Professor" 
Johnson, were grieving Monday.

"To his friends/fans the world over, we share our
tears with you," 
Johnson wrote Tuesday on his fan Web site. "Frankly,
Bob Denver would 
adore your laughter most of all. That's more than
likely why God 
created him."

Mr. Denver is survived by his wife of 28 years,
Dreama, and four 
children -- Patrick, Megan, Emily and Colin.


	
		
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