#Sherwood Schwartz

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Sherwood Schwartz never got to make Murder on Gilligan's Island.

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Growing Up in 70s Television: The Addictive Glory of Marshall, Schwartz, Larson, and Slade

The 1970s in the United States, as seen through the innocent, yet perceptive eyes of a child, was a period marked by profound cultural, political, and religious shifts. The 1970s were a decade where the vibrant promises of the 60s’ counterculture movements began to clash with the realities of ongoing political strife and societal change. The Vietnam War lingered in the background, its echoes felt…

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THE BRADY BUNCH (1969-74) created by Sherwood Schwartz

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The Gilligan's Island radio was actually NOT a prop. It was a working radio...Packard Bell model AR-851 table-top AM radio...previously purchased by show creator Sherwood Schwartz to listen to Dodger games in his office. Schwartz didn't like the black radio used in the pilot...thought the white radio would show better. (He had the prop department add the handle and antenna for effect). When the show wrapped after the 3rd season, Schwartz took the now iconic TV prop back to his office, plugged it back in, and continued to listen to Dodger games on it for decades....

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The Venture Bros. #30: “The Doctor Is Sin” | June 8, 2008 - 11:30PM | S03E02

I love The Venture Bros, but I always dread writing about it. This season, which is very plotty and dense, especially feels like a slog. I might even have to expend MORE EFFORT on this blog in order to deliver more economical blog posts about this show. Hmm (NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: I did not accomplish this for this episode). A rough cut of the first act of this episode originally debuted during Adult Swim’s April Fool’s stunt. And, boy, it would be nice if I had written up that first act back then and only had to write-up the last half of the episode.

This one feels like a TRUE season premiere, even though it leaves the Monarch/Dr. Girlfriend stuff from last season hanging. We join the Venture family waiting for a visit from General Manhowers hoping to cinch a lucrative military contract. He engages in a Sherwood-Schwartz-esque ruse, asking the Orpheus family and others to dress up as multiple characters to give the Venture compound the impression that it’s still the bustling center of innovation it was during his father’s reign. 

The plan fails, even though he creepily writes a scene in which he kisses the teenaged Triana Orpheus, his son’s crush. This part of their script is thankfully never performed because Manhowers is utterly unimpressed with Venture’s affairs and cuts the meeting short. The meeting is also boned by the presence of supervillains who keep showing up to arch Dr. Venture, because the Monarch has supposedly quit in favor of playing ball with the Guild of Calamitous Intent. 

Not wanting to beg his do-gooder brother Jonas Jr. for cash, Dr. Venture takes help from Dr. Killinger, whose making a return appearance from one of my favorite episodes from season two. Dr. Killinger’s guidance winds up being very effective. He even outfits the compound with “Venchmen” (get it?). He also evicts Orpheus, the only person who seemingly understands that Killinger is a consort of evil. Orpheus, the Alchemist (who lets Orpheus crash at his place) and Brock (now being charged rent and bored with his diminished role as bodyguard) decide to storm Venture compound and take back what’s rightfully theirs.

This dramatic clash was not meant to be; when the moment of truth arrives, they find the organization has simply dissolved. That’s because Venture realizes that Killinger has been grooming him to become a villain, and he wants him to arch his brother Jonas. Venture has a bit of an existential crisis; probably because he is a legitimately crappy person. But, COULD HE BE ACTUALLY EVIL?

There’s a great scene where Killinger takes Rusty on a trip into his own psyche, where he flashes back to his youth. His father walks into the kitchen in nothing but his boxers, after having an adult "sleepover". His dong flops out, intimidating Rusty. Killinger tells Rusty that this is the moment his feelings of inadequacy first took hold. This is the moment that his father became his tormentor and rival.

If you’re watching the blu-ray, the dong is uncensored (as are all the swears). On HBOMax, the dong is boxed out. There’s one advantage to the censorship box; when Venture Sr’s penis morphs into Dr. Killinger, the box actually morphs and it’s a fun transition. On the blu-ray, we simply cut to Killinger, already having taken the form of Jonas’ package. I appreciate the uncensored version, but the censored version is a little more fun, animation-wise. 

According to the audio commentary, that scene was meant to have an extra element to it: the woman Jonas was meant to have been rogering was a beautiful actress that Rusty had a crush on. She’s in the middle of making a movie called “Follow That Bikini!” about a woman who turns invisible while wearing a bikini, so she was going to be covered in blue paint for blue-screen effects. It sounds like this scene was cut during the script stage. Years later, we actually see snippets of this movie playing on a TV.

There were plans to have Rusty run into her in the present day, now in her 50s, and attempt to smash. I read somewhere that she was supposed to be Hank and Dean's mother [source?]. Since this wasn’t technically in the episode; it’s still very much in character for Jonas to have done such a thing, and for Rusty to feel as resentful as he does. It would’ve been poetic to have the parallel between him having that done to him as a boy and repeating the same exact mistreatment between him and Dean, with Triana and the creepy kissing scene he writes for them earlier in the episode. 

This one feels more like a classic Venture Bros. episode in that it has a story that’s somewhat self-contained. It still feels like we’re doing a lot of table-setting for the season, though. This episode mostly functions to remind us that Venture is looking for a new arch, who eventually will show up.

There’s also a lot of fan-service when Doc calls his brother Jonas Jr. In the background we see him working with Hector and Swifty, the pirate, and Sally Impossible. The pirate I vaguely remember being established as working for Jonas. We also see Hadji from Jonny Quest overseeing some other division of Jonas’ arm of Venture Industries. Action Jonny is with him. Nearly all of these guys are people who Rusty cruelly cast aside for his own narcissism. The intent here to make longtime fans feel a little warm and fuzzy seeing them find success and thrive with Jonas Jr. 

My criticism of this season still holds true, but I do think this is a big improvement over the previous episode. The commentary track sorta backs up my feelings; Jackson and Doc refer to these episodes as “feverishly getting stuff out of our system”. They also mention that these first two episodes of season three were originally part of the same episode and they realized the Monarch stuff was a much more complicated story than they realized. I still think they should’ve combined both episodes into an hour-long special to kick off the season with. If anyone makes a fan-edit of these two episodes doing that, then... I'd, uh, watch it. I don't know. Probably wouldn't work out; we need something connecting the two episodes.

The post-credits scene is Venture opening up a package from the Monarch with a venomous cobra inside. It crumbles into dust because the package was sent in 2003 and not opened until now. This replaced a deleted scene (which is on the blu-ray) of Sgt. Hatred getting a letter that he’s to be Venture’s new arch, a teaser for what’s to come. He’s a very divisive character; and I will probably be forced to write a pretentious paragraph or two about that. Or, like Brock Sampson putting on brownface, I can simply gloss over that. Brock Sampson puts on brownface in this, everyone. 

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Hey! Sorry for the late reply about the season 3 premiere (I only check this blog like once a week), but I do have an interesting tidbit to share about the "Monarch, I'm..." bit. As revealed in the venture bros art book, the original plan was for her to answer "Monarch, I'm pregnant", but Doc HATED that twist. Felt that it went against the show, went against what he wanted to write, she's a strong character and the last thing they need is for her to be a mom.

Doc thought it would be Out of Character for her to be a negligent parent, and if she was a GOOD parent, there goes her independence as a character entirely. Jackson ended up cutting it out and later admits that doc was right in hindsight, though he still feels that never answering the "Monarch, I'm..." question directly was one of the biggest failures of the show, he felt like he was just blowing the fans off (though doc thinks it's funny that the answer's "who fucking cares?").

I never did read that art book; I've taken it out from the library and leafed through it a couple times, though. That's interesting! I don't think they really go over that in the commentary. I feel like they could've dragged out the pregnancy and came up with a weird twist. Or they could've made a joke out of it and had the first episode just been them walking out of an abortion clinic.

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The Cast of Gilligan's Island with producer Sherwood Schwartz and director Jack Arnold

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I think my parents just kind of liked the name, but didn't have a significant personal reason. I was on the leading edge of "Greg", though, thanks to being born before The Brady Bunch became a thing.

(In a interesting aside, I am reblogging this from a person who shares a name with a character from Gilligan's Island; both Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island were by creator Sherwood Schwartz.)

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What do the lyrics of the ballad of gilligan's island mean

CBS Television Distribution In this author's eyes, there are four perfect TV theme songs in the history of the medium. For instrumentals, the two best themes are Jack Marshall's surf-like monster music for The Munsters and Danny Elfman's Platonic Ideal Music for Tales from the Crypt. For theme songs with lyrics, the two best of all time were, not coincidentally, written by Sherwood Schwartz. He…

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What do the lyrics of the ballad of gilligan's island mean

CBS Television Distribution In this author's eyes, there are four perfect TV theme songs in the history of the medium. For instrumentals, the two best themes are Jack Marshall's surf-like monster music for The Munsters and Danny Elfman's Platonic Ideal Music for Tales from the Crypt. For theme songs with lyrics, the two best of all time were, not coincidentally, written by Sherwood Schwartz. He…

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Read my interview with Sherwood Schwartz, conducted shortly before he died.

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What do the lyrics of the ballad of gilligan's island mean

CBS Television Distribution In this author's eyes, there are four perfect TV theme songs in the history of the medium. For instrumentals, the two best themes are Jack Marshall's surf-like monster music for The Munsters and Danny Elfman's Platonic Ideal Music for Tales from the Crypt. For theme songs with lyrics, the two best of all time were, not coincidentally, written by Sherwood Schwartz. He…

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Birthdays 11.14

Beer Birthdays

Philip Kling (1818)

John H. Stahl (1825)

Gary Sink (1962)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Louise Brooks; actor (1906)

Aaron Copland; composer (1900)

Claude Monet; French artist (1840)

McLean Stevenson; actor (1929)

D.B. Sweeney; actor (1961)

Famous Birthdays

Leo Hendrik Baekeland; chemist, inventor of Bakelite (1863)

Sandahl Bergman; actor (1951)

Stephen Bishop; rock singer (1951)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali; UN secretary-general (1922)

Wendy Carlos; composer, keyboardist (1939)

Prince Charles; British royalty (1948)

Josh Duhamel; actor (1972)

Robert Fulton; inventor (1765)

Fred Haise; astronaut (1933)

Robert Ginty; actor (1948)

Brian Keith; actor (1921)

Veronica Lake; actor (1922)

Charles Lyell; British geologist (1797)

Joseph McCarthy; politician, commie hunter (1908)

Jawaharlal Nehru; Indian politician (1889)

P.J. O'Rourke; writer (1947)

Dick Powell; actor (1904)

Condoleezza Rice; politician (1954)

Run (a.k.a. Joseph Simmons); hip-hop singer (1964)

Laura San Giacomo; actor (1962)

Sherwood Schwartz; television producer (1916)

William Steig; illustrator, writer (1907)

Patrick Warburton; actor (1965)

Yanni; Greek new age musician (1954)

James Young; rock guitarist (1949)

Buckwheat Zydeco; zydeco accordionist (1947)

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Happy 90th birthday to the fabulous actress, singer, Playboy playmate, Frederick’s of Hollywood catalogue model and alluring atomic-era sex kitten Tina Louise (née Tina Blacker, 11 February 1934). Louise is, of course, best remembered for portraying movie star Ginger Grant on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island (and following the death of Dawn Wells – aka Marianne – in 2020, she’s the last surviving cast member). Show biz lore holds that the role of Ginger was originally offered to (and rejected by) Jayne Mansfield, but Mansfield’s most recent biographer Eve Golden says she found no evidence of this in her research (and argues “for one thing, Jayne rarely turned down a paying job – certainly not one that would turn into a three-year gig)”. And as Gilligan creator Sherwood Schwartz always maintained, “I knew I wanted a gorgeous tall redhead. Why red, I don’t know but that’s what I wanted.” The admirably durable Louise played Appassionata Von Climax in the Broadway production of Lil’ Abner, released an album of tinkly cocktail jazz (It’s Time for Tina) in 1957 and later made a vivid impression as one of The Stepford Wives (1975).

Ginger

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¿Cuál es el precio que pagan las mujeres por sus sueños?… “La Mujer En El Lago”

Cuando la desaparición de una niña conmociona la ciudad de Baltimore el Día de Acción de Gracias de 1966, las vidas de Maddie Schwartz y Cleo Sherwood convergen en una encrucijada fatal.

Maddie Schwartz es un ama de casa judía que intenta deshacerse de un pasado secreto y reinventarse como periodista de investigación.

Cleo Sherwood es una madre que navega por los bajos fondos políticos del Baltimore negro mientras lucha por mantener a su familia.

Estas vidas dispares no parecen tener conexión al principio, pero cuando Maddie se obsesiona con la misteriosa muerte de Cleo, se abre un abismo que pone en peligro a todos los que las rodean.

Estreno: 19 de julio de 2024 en Apple TV+.

Creada, producida, escrita y dirigida por Alma Har’el, la miniserie cuenta con las actuaciones de Natalie Portman, Moses Ingram, Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Dylan Arnold, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison, Pruitt Taylor Vince, David Corenswet, entre otros.

Detrás De Cámaras

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Gilligan's Island: "The Cream in My Pie!"

Based on: Gilligan's Island by Sherwood Schwartz

Rating: 14+

Mary Ann rewards The Professor with her coconut cream pie, however, tension starts to rise between the two.

With only the two of them alone on the other side of the island, Mary Ann, clad in her usual sexy farm girl outfit, which includes her pink crop top and, of course, her sexy pair of those incredibly tight and extremely short pair of blue short shorts:

Mary Ann: You know Professor, you and I have never spent enough time with each other, so it's nice to be on the other side of the island with you for once.

Professor: I'm excited to get to know more about you Mary Ann!

Mary Ann: You'll love my coconut cream pie!

The Professor starts to notice Mary Ann for once in his life, getting a great look at her form in said skimpy clothing. As Mary Ann is stirring the batter, her tight plump butt is shaking as she's mixing, which Professor takes a gander at, amazed at how much Mary Ann's short shorts accentuate her buttocks.

Professor: Wow! I must've been working to hard to notice Mary Ann and her wonderful assets!

Mary Ann: Now, let me just grab the coconut!

Mary Ann accidentally splashes coconut water on herself, making her dripping wet and she drops the coconut.

Mary Ann: AH! Oh my goodness! I'm all wet! Let me just grab the coconut off the floor!

Mary Ann bends over with her butt way up in the air, where Professor gets a great view of Mary Ann's plump juicy buttocks. It's impressive to think how short her short shorts are and how they truly make her legs look longer, much to Professor's delight and sexual arousal.

Professor: Boy! That Mary Ann is built! (looks down at his crotch) Oh no! She's a friend of mine, I can't do this now! Oh, but she's so shapely! Such great legs she's got, and an amazing butt! Control, professor! Control!

The Professor gets up, as Mary Ann is still bending over, the sound unzipping pants is heard and Mary Ann is shown with a shocked look on her face! Realizing that The Professor has jabbed his erect penis into Mary Ann's tight plump buttocks, making a hole in her short shorts.

Mary Ann: Oh! Oh my! Oh my goodness! Why Professor!

Professor: I couldn't help it, Mary Ann! I just never noticed how unbelievably sexy you are! More so than Ginger!

Mary Ann: Oh, Professor! I'm so flattered you felt this way about me, respectively! I was wondering when one of you boys would finally start giving me attention!

The Professor continues to be intimate with Mary Ann, until the two orgasm and feel relief from one another!

Mary Ann: (sultry voice) Let's keep this little secret between us, Professor! That's what I usually mean by saying if you want my coconut cream pie!