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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2020 20:36:36 GMT -5
I have never seen an episode of Gilligan's Island. You need to correct that, sir. I recommend any episode with Hans Conreid, as Wrong Way Feldman, any episode with a dream sequence, those with Vitto Scotti (more his Dr Boris Balinkov, rather than his one as a Japanese sailor); Phil Silvers as producer Harold Hecuba (they stage a musical version of Hamlet, set to Carmen), the Kurt Russell jungle boy episode, Denny Miller and Tongo the Apeman and his other episode as Duke the surfer, any episode where Mary Ann uses her feminine wiles (there were a couple and Dawn Wells was pretty sexy in them I don't recommend either of the Filmation cartoon series, though; either The New Adv of Gilligan's Island or Giligan's Planet (they escape the island in a rocket and end up marooned on another planet). Dawn Wells did provide the voices of both Mary Ann and Ginger, in the latter, though she had to miss out on the former, as she was busy with a play.
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Post by spoon on Jan 1, 2021 1:36:10 GMT -5
I have never seen an episode of Gilligan's Island. Well then. Just sit right down and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port about this tiny ship. It's great.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 1, 2021 9:17:58 GMT -5
Giliigan's island is fun fluff.
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Post by brutalis on Jan 1, 2021 10:21:55 GMT -5
Grew up on repeats of Gilligan, Brady Bunch and Get Smart. Loved the island of misfit castaways as they, and the show totally embraced the ridiculousness of it all. It was creative in coming up with stories that are fun, silly, cute, interesting and so much better than it's spinoff Survivor of today.
And it is ALWAYS going to be Mary Ann the adorable country girl. Who wants the high maintenance and drama of Ginger the starlet every day? Once her makeup kit runs dry and her sexy gowns are torn and ragged she will have a meltdown that makes Hiroshima look like a belch. Besides, Mary Ann can cook wonders with bananas and coconuts! What a woman!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2021 23:48:33 GMT -5
RIP to former Bond girl, Charlie's Angel, Beastmaster and Sheena star Tanya Roberts. She was 65.
-M
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Post by brutalis on Jan 4, 2021 0:31:30 GMT -5
RIP to former Bond girl, Charlie's Angel, Beastmaster and Sheena star Tanya Roberts. She was 65. -M Bummer. She was such fun in That 70's Show as Midge, Donna's sexy yet dim mother.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 4, 2021 12:17:53 GMT -5
Also passing away was Gerry Marsden, of Gerry and the Pacemakers, one of the leading acts in the Merseybeat sound, in the 1960s.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 4, 2021 12:19:32 GMT -5
RIP to former Bond girl, Charlie's Angel, Beastmaster and Sheena star Tanya Roberts. She was 65. -M Bummer. She was such fun in That 70's Show as Midge, Donna's sexy yet dim mother. Yeah, I never thought much of her work until that show. I think she finally found a role that fit her talents, rather than one that fit her looks.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2021 20:06:55 GMT -5
Apparently reports of Tanya Roberts death were exaggerated. Apparently she is still alive according to her reps and recovering after collapsing on Christmas Eve.
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 4, 2021 21:09:57 GMT -5
Apparently reports of Tanya Roberts death were exaggerated. Apparently she is still alive according to her reps and recovering after collapsing on Christmas Eve. -M This is such a crazy thing that they reported her dead.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 4, 2021 22:25:52 GMT -5
Apparently reports of Tanya Roberts death were exaggerated. Apparently she is still alive according to her reps and recovering after collapsing on Christmas Eve. -M This is such a crazy thing that they reported her dead. Not the first time something like that has happened, between attempts to be first out with a scoop and compounded errors. Several years back, Sean Connery made an appearance on Letterman, because there had been reports that he had died. What had happened was that John Connally, the former Texas governor and collateral victim in the Kennedy assassination had passed away, and one report had misspelled the name as John Connery, and that was picked up by a second reporter, who then though they had gotten the first name wrong and corrected it to Sean Connery. It was like a game of Telephone, with obituaries. There were a couple of other celebrities reported dead, within the last year, who were still alive.
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Post by foxley on Jan 5, 2021 1:16:45 GMT -5
I have never seen an episode of Gilligan's Island. Well then. Just sit right down and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port about this tiny ship. It's great. I especially like "Up at Bat", where Gilligan dreams he is a vampire and features the Professor and Skipper as a Holmes and Watson parody named Inspector Sherlock and Colonel Watney. Alan Hale more than competently portrays a Nigel Bruce-style Watson, but
Russell Johnson (an extremely good actor who deserves to be remembered as more that just the Professor) is brilliant as Sherlock, and shows that he could have been great playing Holmes in a serious movie (I suspect he could even have managed the English accent).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 15:43:51 GMT -5
And now comes the news that Tanya Roberts did pass a day after confirming the reports of her death were premature. She never recovered from the Christmas Eve collapse, but was still alive when her death was first reported, but she succumbed the day after.
-M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 5, 2021 22:50:02 GMT -5
And now comes the news that Tanya Roberts did pass a day after confirming the reports of her death were premature. She never recovered from the Christmas Eve collapse, but was still alive when her death was first reported, but she succumbed the day after. -M Yeah; sadly, I suspect she will become more known for the bizarre circumstances of her death announcement than he work.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 5, 2021 22:54:51 GMT -5
Well then. Just sit right down and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port about this tiny ship. It's great. I especially like "Up at Bat", where Gilligan dreams he is a vampire and features the Professor and Skipper as a Holmes and Watson parody named Inspector Sherlock and Colonel Watney. Alan Hale more than competently portrays a Nigel Bruce-style Watson, but
Russell Johnson (an extremely good actor who deserves to be remembered as more that just the Professor) is brilliant as Sherlock, and shows that he could have been great playing Holmes in a serious movie (I suspect he could even have managed the English accent).
That's one of my favorites. Tina Louise is good in the dream sequence, as the vampire's wife... "We don't have an alcove....you, schnook!" Russell Johnson, in his memoir of the series, said they all enjoyed the dream episodes, as it was a chance to do something different. The one where Gilligan dreams of Jack and the Beanstalk and Skipper is the giant, has Bob's young son doubling him, to set the scale for Alan Hale, as a giant. Johnson used to play a lot of heavies, before Gilligan's Island; then, no one wanted to cast him as anything other than scientists or teachers. He has an excellent Twilight Zone episode, where he is a time displaced man who wakes up in 1865, with the knowledge that Lincoln is going to be shot and tries to stop it. Johnson also served is the US Army Air Force, in WW2, as a bombadier.
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