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

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. Hardcore 'Star Wars' Fans Await Opening 'The Riddler' Frank Gorshin Dies at 72 Slideshow: Cannes Film Festival Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not...

MIDI - GILLIGAN'S ISLAND Sit back my friends and I'll tell a tale...about a George Bush trip He'll visit those Euro-weasels and will not take their lip We have a man who's a president and not a spineless shill We had eight years of that kind of stuff with gonad-less Bill...with gonad-less Bill When we find our world's in jeopardy to whom will nations turn It's not the French to be counted on...that lesson has been learned...that lesson has been learned Bush makes his point and he tells it straight...it's clear as it can be With Condi Rice and...

I tried to watch The Real Gilligan's Island, the new TBS reality series in which two Skippers, two Gilligans, etc. compete to see who can be rescued first, but gave up on the wretched enterprise after 15 minutes. And it's not because I'm too highbrow for Gilligan's Island either — far from it. Shortly after Sept. 11, I began thinking that the wonderful thing about Gilligan's Island — which has been dubbed into 30 languages and has never, not once, been off the air since its CBS premiere 40 years ago — is how perpetually enraging it must be to...

There's an odious milestone accomplished this evening: The debut of The Real Gilligan's Island (TBS, 8 p.m.), which officially marks the first known merging of a reality show and an idiotic sitcom. Rarely is TV this dumbed-down. It's dumb and dumber, I suppose, since this concept is based on Gilligan's Island, a low-concept sitcom surely aimed at a dull-witted viewership back in the sixties. It was a hit, of course. The original Gilligan's Island concerned a group of people stranded on a remote desert island. For three painful seasons the castaways struggled to get off the island and failed time...

Greg Dyke, former director general of the BBC, has claimed that the British Government "tried to kill" Andrew Gilligan. Reporter Gilligan broke the story that British intelligence had "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq that sought to justify Britain's support for US-led invasion of the country. "The Government tried to kill him," claimed Dyke about Gilligan, who was forced out of his job at the BBC in January in the wake of the Hutton report that inquired into the death of scientist David Kelly. Kelly was the main source for Gilligan. Dyke was speaking at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature...

I haven't seen this posted yet. Pretty funny. http://kerrywaffles.net/kerrygan.html

Gilligan's Island vs. the Taliban By Catherine Seipp Why do they hate us? Here are some of the usual answers: Israel. McDonald's. The Gulf War. Infidel American women who run around in short skirts with heads uncovered. Hollywood. U.S. arrogance and naivete about other cultures. To all that, I suggest another reason: "Gilligan's Island." Shakespeare scholar and literary critic Paul Cantor wrote "Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture In the Age of Globalization" before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (The book will be published in November.) But his argument that "Gilligan's Island" was really, at its core, not just a silly '60s...

Judging from reactions, it’s hard to tell Tony Blair’s administration was vindicated for charges it "sexed up" pre-Iraqi war intelligence. Likewise, it’s hard to tell the BBC had juiced up its war reporting. In less than two weeks, critics have spun the news to suggest the exact opposite had occurred. Nevertheless, the clear verdict of an independent inquiry into false accusations lodged by the BBC against the British government is thumbs-up for the government, thumbs-down for the BBC. Blair’s vindication should bode well for the Bush administration, which faces almost identical criticism regarding the veracity of its own pre-war intelligence....

FOR THE LAST WEEK, much of Britain has borne witness to an outpouring of grief the like of which has not been seen since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. When Baron Hutton of Bresagh, knight of the realm, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, a hitherto rather inconspicuous retired member of the British supreme court, delivered his much anticipated report at the end of January on the death of Dr. David Kelly, a British government weapons expert, a collective howl of anguish went up from the well-upholstered parts of the media establishment. Lord Hutton concluded that Tony Blair, the...

Having read the Hutton report and most of what has been written about it, I have reached the following, strictly non-judicial, conclusions: first, that the episode illuminates a wider crisis in British journalism than the turmoil at the BBC; second, that too many journalists are in denial about this wider crisis; third, that journalists need to be at the forefront of trying to rectify it; and, fourth, that this will almost certainly not happen. The reporting of Lord Hutton's conclusions and of the reactions to them has been meticulous. The same cannot be said of large tracts of the commentary...

<p>LONDON, England (CNN) --Reporter Andrew Gilligan who was criticized in the Hutton Report for saying the UK government exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to justify war has resigned from the BBC.</p> <p>Gilligan's report, based on an interview with weapons expert David Kelly, sparked a huge controversy last summer that eventually led to the scientist taking his own life.</p>

Special report: the BBC BBC to launch Gilligan inquiry Ciar Byrne Friday January 30, 2004 Mark Byford, the acting director general of the BBC, has announced there will be an internal inquiry at the corporation into what went wrong over the Andrew Gilligan affair. Director of news Richard Sambrook told BBC News staff in an email today that Mr Byford was pressing ahead with an inquiry planned by Greg Dyke "to rebuild trust in BBC news". "The BBC made mistakes and we have faced up to that. I regret misjudgments over the last eight months and accept responsibility for my...

BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan has resigned in the wake of the criticism directed at him in the Hutton report. Mr Gilligan conceded some of his story was wrong, and apologised for it. He said his departure was at his own initiative, but described the BBC collectively as the victim of a "grave injustice". Earlier departing BBC director general Greg Dyke said he was shocked by the findings of the Hutton Inquiry and did not accept all of the report. He said Lord Hutton had "given the benefit of doubt to every government witness and not to any at the...

BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan made a final plea for understanding in a late submission to Lord Hutton's inquiry. Reporters should be given 'a margin for error' when dealing with matters of clear public interest, particularly on political issues, he argued. He insisted he had never accused the Government of lying and told the law lord that, while there were errors in his May 29 report for Radio 4's Today programme, it "accurately reported the burden of what Dr Kelly had told him". The 42-page statement was released by Lord Hutton along with submissions from the BBC, the Government, and the...

Gilligan comes out fighting after Hutton drubbing Claire Cozens Wednesday January 28, 2004 Andrew Gilligan today came out fighting with a statement issued on his behalf describing Lord Hutton's report as "grossly one-sided". He is struggling to hold on to his BBC career after Lord Hutton issued a damning criticism of his Today programme report, describing the central claim that the government had "sexed up" its dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction as "unfounded". In what amounted to a complete demolition of Gilligan's controversial report. Lord Hutton cast doubt on the "sexing up" claim and rejected as "unfounded" the...

Live Video of Lord Hutton delivering his report on http://news.bbc.co.uk/ now

LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - David Kelly, the weapons expert whose suicide rocked the British government, believed Iraq did pose an immediate threat, the BBC said on Wednesday, just days before a critical report into his death. Kelly told the BBC before the war that Iraq's weapons could have taken "days or weeks" to deploy. But he did not back Prime Minister Tony Blair's notorious claim that they could be fired in 45 minutes. The failure to find Iraq's weapons of mass destruction -- the primary Anglo-American motive for war -- has eroded public trust in Blair, putting him in...

New evidence submitted to the Hutton Inquiry supports recent claims of bias against the BBC’s coverage of the Iraq War. Whose Agenda? The BBC Reporters’ Log on the Iraq War, a quantitative analysis of articles posted online by BBC journalists throughout the War, found that correspondents were more likely to criticise Coalition strategy and discuss setbacks than to offer praise or evaluate advances. Reporters were also more likely to be sceptical of claims made by the Coalition than they were of claims made by the Iraqi authorities. Whose Agenda? is based on 1343 posts made on the BBC Reporters’ Log...

Called in to anchor the BBC's coverage of the death of the Queen Mother last year, the broadcaster Peter Sissons made a simple choice that set off a complicated furor. Instead of the traditional black necktie traditionally worn by BBC presenters at times of national mourning, he wore maroon. It was a tiny thing, really. But there were calls of complaint, indignant editorials, denunciations on talk shows, letters to the newspapers, all showing how important the BBC is to Britain's view of itself and how angry, even personally affronted, Britons can become when they disagree with it. It is the...