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...Sitcom with a Message As our Milestone of actor Bob Denver noted [Sept. 19], he played the role of Gilligan in the popular 1960s TV comedy Gilligan's Island. Ten years ago, we profiled the creator of the show, Sherwood Schwartz, in a piece called "The Inventor of Bad TV." Here's an excerpt from that story [March...
...DIED. BOB DENVER, 70, perennially goofy sitcom star, most famously of the critically panned but ceaselessly popular Gilligan's Island, which ran from 1964 to 1967 and is still in reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") in TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...
DIED. BOB DENVER, 70, perennially goofy sitcom star, most famously of the critically panned but ceaselessly popular Gilligan's Island, which aired from 1964 to 1967 and is still in reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") on TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...
Sarah M. Seltzer ’05 was Magazine Chair of The Harvard Crimson in 2004. She was a dear friend of the late Paul F. Gilligan III ’05, and her brother Daniel L. Seltzer ’05 was Gilligan’s roommate...
...sister Lindsey A. Gilligan ’08, Paul was the ideal older brother, the kind most desire but don’t have—loving, supportive, and protective without being stifling. I know from experience that every Eliot suite that housed Paul’s blocking group, testosterone-filled as they all were, had an open-door policy for sisters. Lindsey, Becky L. Smith ’08, and I came and went as frequently as the boys themselves. Paul gave Lindsey advice, encouragement, coaching, refuge from the tribulations of freshman year, and so much fun. Those...