Bob Denver Recuperates From Heart Surgery

Associated Press ^ | May 18, 2005

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LOS ANGELES May 18, 2005 — Bob Denver, star of the 1960s television show "Gilligan's Island," is recuperating from quadruple heart bypass surgery, his agent said Wednesday.

Denver, 70, had the surgery recently after a checkup revealed problems, said his Los Angeles-based agent, Mike Eisenstadt. He is recuperating at his West Virginia home.

Denver portrayed the title character in the sitcom about a group of castaways stranded on a desert isle.

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Maybe he wasn't smoking enough dope.

Frank Gorshin, Bob Denver...

Who's next?

[Thebaddog]

Was she packing or what?

[SandyInSeattle]

Gilligan is 70? Wow, do I feel old.

[righttackle44]

Hope he gets a get-well kiss from Mary Ann.

[billorites]

I'd do her.
'cept I'm dead.

[Darkwolf]

So would Miss Hathaway. And so's she.

[South40]

Maybe he wasn't smoking enough dope.

My first thought also. Nothing says healthy heart like two lungs full of smoke.

[South40]

Remember Maynard!

[billorites]

"Gilligan is 70? Wow, do I feel old."

I'm almost 50, but I'm too young to remember the Dobbie Gillis show.

I remember Gilligan, though.

Mary Ann constitutes a major kink in my psycho-sexual development.

[Izzy Dunne]

No mention of Maynard G. Krebbs...

[hole_n_one]

[Lizavetta]

Barbara Eden's only child died of an accidental heroin overdose, by the way. I hope she has learned how to go on after such a horrific loss.

[clintonh8r]

The real news in that story is that Frank Gorshin died. I hope Krebs recovers, but he lacks somethng Gorshin had in spades: talent.

[handy old one]

Hang on my head just blew my hat off.

[yarddog]

Mary Ann constitutes a major kink in my psycho-sexual development.

Me too. I saw a program yesterday on TV land where they picked the 10 hottest female actresses. I was shocked at how bad their choices were but the worst of all was choosing Ginger instead of Mary Ann.

I have seen several times where just about any group would choose Mary Ann by a margin of something like 3 to 1 over Ginger. Not that Ginger was ugly.

[vipervomit]

I'm sure the Professor can rebuild his heart with a couple of cocoanut shells and and a voodoo doll.

[scottinoc]

Don't scare me like that, Little Buddy!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Mary Ann constitutes a major kink in my psycho-sexual development.

I'm still obsessing about what (if anything) she was wearing under that big nightshirt.

[SamAdams76]

Gilligan is 70. Mick Jagger is in his 60s. Half of the Beatles are dead. Joe Namath is getting a senior citizen discount on his pantyhose. The kids on The Brady Bunch and Partridge Family are having grandchildren.

Hell yes I feel old!

But Keith Richards gives me hope.

[cmsgop]

Now Mrs, Howell, I'd Hit That.......

[Puddleglum]

The real news in that story is that Frank Gorshin died. I hope Krebs recovers, but he lacks somethng Gorshin had in spades: talent.

Yep - rest in peace, Mr. Gorshin. You were a great, one-of-a-kind talent, and one heck of a Riddler.

[Hank Rearden]

He's finally got that excuse he needs to avoid having to do that Work! thing.

[Enterprise]

[yarddog]

Now Mrs, Howell, I'd Hit That.......

Either you are 100 years old or perverted. I do bet she was pretty when she was young tho.

[G Larry]

And his friend Dobie...with a "b".

Zelda was my fave!

Get well "little buddy"!

aka Maynard G. Crebbs.

[yarddog]

I saw somewhere that the actress who played Zelda was a flaming leftist. No surprise as she sort of gave that impression.

[SandyInSeattle]

But Keith Richards gives me hope.

Good point!

[SandyInSeattle]

I was shocked at how bad their choices were but the worst of all was choosing Ginger instead of Mary Ann.

If I were a guy, I'd choose Mary Ann. She can cook, and Ginger is way too much maintenance.

[Thebaddog]

I dunno, dudes. In this shot at that time, Ginger was HHHOTTT! And is the Perfesser a nerd or what?

And is the symbolism of the shot that Gilligan did them both?

[hole_n_one]

[b4its2late]

[yarddog]

Now that I think about it, Thalia Menninger, aka Tuesday Weld was one of the prettiest actresses ever. Maybe even the prettiest.

[b4its2late]

Kool pic!

[speedy]

Kind of makes you feel like putting on some Thelonious Monk and watch them tear down the old Endicott Building. After, of course, watching "The Monster Who Devoured Cleveland." Like, hi, Mr. G, Mrs. G, Dobe G.

[Rakkasan1]

good luck, little buddy.

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They've been on my list for 30 years.

Anytime...
Anywhere...

[speedy]

I've been in many of those "Mary Ann vs. Ginger" office polls. Mary Ann always wins easily, I think because of the maintenance factor and because she seemed more real. And Veronica always beats Betty, too. Maybe we really are all alike.

[tertiary01]

"Zelda "is currently a very leftist, lesbian member of the California State Legislature.

[cmsgop]

Mmmmmm, That's HOT !

[yarddog]

I saw at one of those Gilligan fan sites that Mary Ann got more fan mail than all the others combined.

[speedy]

Natalie Schaeffer, the actress who played Lovey Howell, was always very sensitive about her age. Turns out she was actually almost 20 years older than Jim Backus (Thurston). Probably if we had a picture of her from about 1920, she could have competed with Ginger and Mary Ann on a more even basis.

[Enterprise]

That's was the only good one I could find at the time. But I wonder too - exactly what was "little buddy" up to on that Island?

[hole_n_one]

A few years ago I got into flame war with a high brow twit on FR.

He wanted to discuss the effects that the movie Lord of the Flies had on the world populace in a social, geopolitical, and an economic sense.

I told him that one could discuss Gilligan's Island with as much intellectual curiosity and it wouldn't be as boring.

My last post to him was something about Zsa Zsa Gabor and he flipped out.

lol!

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"Tuesday Weld was one of the prettiest actresses ever."

Ya think?

[speedy]

I'm not surprised. All the teenaged boys dug her -- Ginger was too Hollywood -- Mary Ann seemed like she could have lived next door. I met both her and Russell Johnson (The Professor.) She seemed rather aloof. Johnson was a wonderfully warm and outgoing guy who was happy to talk at length about the show.

[Honcho Bongs]

Who is that guy on the left?

[speedy]

Good choices, Bill. Any room for Emma Peel and Samantha Stevens in your 60s pantheon? And maybe the young Shelley Fabares?

[Daaave]

The Professor: "They might not see our bonfire because of all the cumulonimbus."

Gilligan: "And there's allot of clouds, too!"