Any year that sees both Gilligan and Maynard G. Krebs head to that vast television in the sky can t be counted as very positive episode of boob tube karma. Both of characters were embodied by the late ...

Paul Farhi raised the great trivia question -- "What was Gilligan's first name?" -- in his Sept. 7 Style appreciation of Bob Denver. He did not ask or reveal what the "G" in Maynard G. Krebs stood for ...

Before he wore the bucket hat and stumbled into slapstick glory, Bob Denver was a shy kid with stage fright and a dream. From ...