Goodbye, Little Buddy!

Bob Denver, whose portrayal of goofy castaway Gilligan on the 1960s TV show "Gilligan's Island" made him an iconic figure to generations of TV viewers, has died. He was 70.

I grew up watching Gilligan's Island and wishing I were one of the castaways. It all seemed so romantic and ideal to me, like Shakespeare's green world in Twelveth Night. Gilligan was my favorite character and I always thought he was the brains of the outfit and would have saved them all if the Skipper had quit bopping him in the head!