Gilligan's Island
Ben Cox
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r...@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Ray Swartz (Oh, that guy again)) writes:
> And now for something completely different...
> Some office-mates and I were having a discussion, and a really
> obscure trivia question came up.
> What are the full names of the characters on Gilligan's
> Island? Not the actor's names, but the full names of the characters.
> The only time they were mentioned in the series was in the first
> episode, at the end, where they were all sitting around a fire and the
> radio announcer read a list of the seven people presumed lost at sea
> on the Minnow. We got some of them, but we would like the rest.
> Skipper Jonas Grumby
> Gilligan His first or last name? What's the FULL name
> Mary-Anne Last name?
> Ginger Grant
> Thurston Howell
> Lovey Howell Was "Lovey" her real name, or just a nickname?
> Professor This is one we're really stuck on.
> Does anybody know the answer? Has there been a government
> coverup here that the Clinton people will blame Bush for?
> Ray Swartz
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Ben Cox
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Ben Cox
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je...@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>Ray Swartz (Oh, that guy again) writes
>> What are the full names of the characters on Gilligan's Island?
>> Gilligan His first or last name? What's the FULL name
>This is not mentioned anywhere in the commonly known show. According to a book
>on Gilligan's Island (lists the plots of each show, gives detailed information
>about each character and guest-star appearance, recipes shown on the show, and
>so on) called "The Unofficial Gilligan's Island Handbook" by Joey Green [ISBN
>#0-446-38668-5], it could be either his first or last name. Sherwood Schwartz,
>the creator and producer of the show, thinks it's the character's last name
>(because in the original presentation, it's Willy Gilligan). However, Bob
>Denver (who played Gilligan in the pilot, show and movies) thinks it's the
>character's first name (no comment on what Denver claims the character's last
>name is).
>> Mary-Anne Last name?
>Mary Ann Summers (no hyphen and no 'e' in 'Ann') is the character's complete
>name.
>> Lovey Howell Was "Lovey" her real name, or just a nickname?
>Lovey Wentworth Howell is her complete name.
>> Professor This is one we're really stuck on.
>Professor Roy Hinkley, Ph.D. who has a B.A. from USC, a B.S. from UCLA, an M.A.
>from SMU and a Ph.D. from TCU at the age of 25 (yet his job before the boat
>trip that got him to the island was a high-school math teacher at some
>unmentioned high-school...hmmm.).
>And just for the sake of completeness, Thurston Howell III, Ginger Grant and
>Jonas Grumby are correct for "The Millionaire", "The Movie Star" and "The
>Skipper"'s names respectively.
>There's this plus probably everything else you've ever wanted to know about the
>show (and more!) in Joey Green's book. If you're a GI fan, it's a must-read.
>--
>-- Jeff (je...@uiuc.edu)
>-- NeXTmail welcome
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Ben Cox
th...@uiuc.edu
Aaron Humphrey
couldn't help but notice the movie "The Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan's
Island" as one of the outstanding works of cinematic art mentioned therein.
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>r...@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Ray Swartz (Oh, that guy again)) writes:
>
>> And now for something completely different...
>> Some office-mates and I were having a discussion, and a really
>> obscure trivia question came up.
[Gilligan's Island trivia deleted.]
You realize, of course, that Ray's message appears positively brilliant
compared to what goes on in the Star Trek groups.
JGH
Mark A. Pitcher
> In flipping through my newly acquired 1989 Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, I
> couldn't help but notice the movie "The Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan's
> Island" as one of the outstanding works of cinematic art mentioned therein.
You're not kidding! It is quite clear that this film is
steeped in the major European traditions, especially those of
German Expressionism and the Kammerspielfilm, and French poetic
realism. While the narration owes much to Welles, Ford, Bergman,
and Godard, its visual texture is heavily indebted to the
chiaroscuro lighting of Lang, the fluid camera of Murnau, the
baroque mise-en-scene of von Sternberg, and the deep-focus
realism of Renoir.
In the year of its relase, "The Harlem Globetrotter On
Gilligan's Island" was a radically experimental film - fully
twenty years ahead of its time - and was widely recognized as
such by American critics. But it failed at the box office less
because of its experimental nature than because of an aura of
fear in Hollywood created by attacks on Gilligan and his monkey
by the ASPCA. Though they were unsuccessful in preventing
the film's release, the adverse publicity made it difficult for
"The Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan's Island" to get bookings
and advertising. As a result, the film did poorly outside of
New York City and was withdrawn from circluation until much
later, when it played the art house circuit and began to acquire
a more sophisticated audience. Since then, "The Harlem
Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island", has been voted the "Best
Film of All Time" in four successive international polls, and
there is every indication that its critical reputaion continues
to grow.
I could go on and on about this great film.
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