Nearly lost in the overwhelming amount of news out of the Gulf Coast region hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina is the news today that Bob Denver, namesake star of TV's "Gilligan's Island," has died at age 70.
His New York Times obituary.
His fan Web site (which uses Comic Sans but I will overlook).
I have long been a huge fan of the TV show "Gilligan's Island." I enjoyed sitting "right back to hear a tale, a take of a fateful trip." Each episode reliably provided comic antics and physical humor -- all in an episode where the seven castaways would grasp at a resuce or way off the island only to have some screw-up from Gilligan or just dumb luck dash their hopes. Denver, as Gilligan, never failed to deliver, always taking a smack on the head from the Skipper's cap for his foolishness.
There's a bit of Gilligan in us all, I think -- at least there is in me. There's an island in the Pacific gone dark tonight in memory of everyone's li'l buddy.
-- Wenatchee, Wash.
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