8/1/03
Looking into A Child is Missing. It looks like they do really good work, helping the police during the first few hours of the disappearance of a child / elderly / disabled person. They're funded by donations and government grants. The home base is only about 2 miles from my apartment, too.

Sakes... what a little celebrity gossip-mongering list this is. Newest stuff in blue...Like all gossip, I'm sure it's best taken with a grain of salt. Maybe a whole salt lick. (Orson Welles possibly the Black Dahlia Murderer?)

Omniglot: A Guide to Writing Systems -For fun stuff, see the alternative writing systems, including alphabets from Fantasy and Science Fiction. See your name in assorted systems.

Metacritic is a ratings accumulator not unlike Rotten Tomatoes (except that it covers music as well as film, videro/dvd, and games). Gigli is currently at 19, and falling, or "Overwhemiing Dislike and/or Disgust." (0-19 is the lowest possible score range, out of 100) Right now, Rotten Tomatoes has Gigli at an average rating of 2.6/10, with only one positive review out of the 59 accrued so far. A decent movie is considered 60% or better... the current list is 2%.

Non-castaways on Gilligan's Island Master List

Wrongway Feldman (Hans Conried)
Japanese Sailor (Vito Scotti)
Jackson Farrell (Larry Storch), accomplice (Kenneth Smith)
Indigo Mob "Hank" (Louis Quinn), "Lucky" (Jack Sheldon)
Jungle Boy (Kurt Russell)
Surfer Duke Williams (Denny Scott Miller)
Alexandri Gregor Dubov (Harold J. Stone)
Enrico Rodriguez (Nehemiah Persoff)
Russian Cosmonauts Ivan and Igor (Vincent Beck, Danny Lega)
The Mosquitoes (The Wellington's; Les Brown Jr. 'Band Leader', Ed Wade, George Patterson, Kirby Johnson)
Erika Tiffany Smith (Zsa-Zsa Gabor), Boat driver (Michael Whitney)
Robot (Bob D'Arcy)
Minature Gilligan (Beanstalk) Patrick Denver
Mr. Howell Imposter (Jim Backus)
A Ghost (Richard Kiel), On Walkie-Talkie (Charles Maxwell)
Mad Scientist Boris Balinkoff (Vito Scotti), Igor (Mike Mazurki)
Gilligan's Double, a Russian Spy (Bob Denver)
Harold Hecuba (Phil Silvers)
Lord Beasley Waterford (John McGiver)
Kidnapper Norbert Wiley (Don Rickles)
Eva Grubb (Tina Louise)
George Barkley (Strother Martin)
Johnathan Kincaid (Rory Calhoun), Ramoo (Harold Sakata)
Tongo the Ape Man (Denny Scott Miller)
Native Girl Kalani (Midori), Native Warrier Ugandi (Michael Forest)
King Killiwanna (Stanley Adams), Other Natives (Mickey Morton), (Robert Swimmer)
Native Headhunters (Roman Gabriel) Then quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams,(Eddie Little Sky), (Allen Jaffe)
Music Hath Charm Natives (Paul Daniel, (Russ Grieve), (Frank Corsentino)
Native Family, Chief (Russ Grieve), Mother (Henny Backus), Fat Native Girl (Mary Foran), Native Warrier Haruki (Eddie Little Sky)
Kupaki Headhunters (Jim Lefebra, Al Ferrar, Pete Sotoge)
Matoban Tribe, Michael Forest, Mike Reece, Bill Hart
Inmate Sterling Holloway (Birdy) (note: He is the real voice of Winnie The Pooh)
Prison Guard, Harry Swoger
CIA Agents (Plastic explosives) Rudy Larusso, at Headquarters Bartlett Robinson (Hartley) Kurt Duncan
General Bryant, Operation Powdercake, Harry Lauter
Kidnapping Ape and Ape With Weapons, Janos Prohaska
Cape Canaveral Scientists, Booth Colman (Corwell), Arthur Peterson (Bancroft)
Cinderella Knight, Billy Curtis
Astronauts, Scott Graham (Tobias), Jim Spencer (Ryan)

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