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Godzilla
Tattoo
Roarke was known for his white suit and cultured demeanor, and was
initially accompanied by an energetic sidekick, Tattoo, played by the
diminutive Hervé Villechaize. Tattoo would run up the main bell tower
to ring the bell and shout "The plane! The plane!" to announce the
arrival of a new set of guests at the beginning of each episode. This
line, shown at the beginning of the show's credits, became an unlikely
catchphrase because of Villechaize's spirited delivery and French
accent (he actually pronounced it, "De plane! De plane!"). In later
seasons, he would arrive in his personal go-cart, sized for him, and
recklessly drive to join Roarke for the visitor reception while staff
scrambled to get out of his way.
Gilligan
The two-man crew of the charter boat S.S. Minnow and five passengers
on a "three hour tour" run into a tropical storm and are shipwrecked
on an uncharted, uninhabited island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
(The episode "The Pigeon" places the island approximately 300 miles
(480 km) southeast of Hawaii, while "X Marks the Spot" gives a
location near 140° longitude, 10° latitude, which puts it about 1,200
miles (1,900 km) to the southeast.)
Executives were concerned that first-time viewers might not understand
the premise of the show, so the sea shanty-style theme song, "The
Ballad of Gilligan's Isle", was written as a capsule summary of the
castaways' predicament.
Obama's Plane Scare
July 08, 2008 7:36 AM
By the time we all heard about it the unscheduled stop that the
campaign plane of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, made in St. Louis
yesterday was ultimately uneventful. But the incident was quite dicey
there for a spell.
As the pilot struggled to re-gain control of the pitch of the plane -
the angle of the nose of the plane - Obama was told that he and the
other 44 passengers on board might have to assume the brace position
upon landing, bending forward with their heads between their knees.
That ultimately did not happen, but National Transportation Safety
Board chairman Mark Rosenker told ABC News' Dennis Powell yesterday
that the incident "is extremely serious in this particular case."
An inflatable slide in the tail cone of the plane had deployed, making
control of the plane tough. "There are hydraulic lines back there,"
Rosenker says. 'There are control cables that deal with the elevators
and other area's of control surfaces for the aircraft, and could
potentially make it extremely difficult if not impossible to fly the
aircraft."
Three fire trucks met the plane on the tarmac in St. Louis. Obama
called his wife Michelle to let her know he was fine before she saw
anything on TV about the plane's unscheduled landing. The plane was
supposed to land in Charlotte, NC.
This was not Obama's regular campaign plane, which is being
overhauled. It was a loaner, having previously been used by Sen.
Hillary Clinton, D-NY.
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