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Remember Gilligan's Island? It was like Lost, but instead of smoke monsters and alternate realities, they had coconut radios and innocent sexual tension. Child TV addicts such as myself were obsessed with its reruns back in the day, but now the old show is about to get some very wide exposure: Warner Bros. is turning the classic sitcom into a feature film. A few years ago, I asked you to recast Read more
It's a rivalry as old as ridiculous stereotypes about women: Ginger vs. Mary Ann. We all know that on Gilligan's Island, at least, the goody-goody in short shorts won out, but as far as makeup goes, both ladies' looks were absolutely divine — and surprisingly similar, when you get right down to it. To find out how to go from sultry to sweet with the substitution of just a couple products, read Read more
This is not political commentary. In fact, I'm not sure how you would file it, except under "weird." I think the formula is X + Gilligan's Island = WTF?! Read more
This is one of those ideas that starts out great. Combine footage and lyrics from one classic, Gilligan's Island, with the music from another classic, Stairway to Heaven. Giggling (at least for me) gave way to the feeling that this ganja-inspired (I'm guessing) mashup was a little too spooky for my tastes. But why don't you just sit right back and you'll hear a tale. . . Read more
Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt! The cast of "Gilligan's Island" is a fun one to recast because the characters are of various ages, so you can pick your favorite actors of several different generations. I absolutely loved many of Read more
Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt! "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale/ A tale of a fateful trip/ That started from this tropic port/ Aboard this tiny ship!" This week, tell me a modern tale of this fateful trip by recasting "Gilligan's Read more
Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, died today at age 94. Not only is Schwartz responsible for bringing Carol, Mike, and the six Brady kids into our lives, as well as their housekeeper Alice, but he also wrote the iconic theme song. The Brady Bunch aired for less than five years, but generations of TV watchers got to know the wholesome bunch thanks to decades Read more
