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...best-known songs of the 1950s and 1960s were not sung by Elvis Presley, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. In fact few even made it to vinyl. Classic cuts such as The Jetsons, Leave It to Beaver and Gilligan's Island were heard over and over again as theme songs for television shows. Now, however, a two-record set called Television's Greatest Hits has put the hottest tunes in TV history on Billboard's pop albums chart. According to Executive Producer Steven Gottlieb, the record recognizes TV music as a piece of Americana. Says he: "People like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Jan. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...boats are the only chance to do sweep rowing for those who have never rowed before and are looking for camaraderie and exercise without the pressure and serious training involved in A-boats,” said Paul F. Gilligan ‘05, captain of last year’s champion Eliot House A-crew and an Eliot House IM secretary. For that reason, he stressed that, despite the safety concerns, the Houses should work to maintain both amateur and more experienced crews...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Possible IM Crew Cutback Resolved | 2/15/2005 | See Source »

...nutshell, was what J.J. Abrams and his co-creator, Damon Lindelof, decided soon after Lloyd Braun, then ABC's entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain the audience's interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to His Unreality | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...young women live in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where former Harvard professor Carol K. Gilligan was conducting a writing workshop through a program for teen mothers. It was Gilligan who introduced Lipper to the teen moms by inviting her to visit Pittsfield to record the proceedings of her workshop...

Author: By Mary CATHERINE Brouder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumna Explores Teen Pregnancy in Book, Film | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...protection against a 30,000-ft. drop is good hair and low body fat. The plane was a thousand miles off course and out of radio contact--the survivors are stranded. But not alone: at night the jungle chatters with the sounds of unseen, hungry and possibly supernatural creatures. Gilligan, meet Mulder and Scully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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