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Sherwood Schwartz Won't Be Down For Breakfast.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:12 pm
by DLRFantasmic!Dan
The creator of "The Brady Bunch" and "Gillian's Island" passed away at the age of 94.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-s ... 6607.story
Re: Sherwood Schwartz Won't Be Down For Breakfast.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:34 pm
by DisneyMom
Wow,he's responsible for my TV addicton! :p:
RIP :(
Re: Sherwood Schwartz Won't Be Down For Breakfast.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:00 pm
by darph nader
Oh man. :( Thought he passed away 'years' ago. Shows you how much I keep up on current events.
Re: Sherwood Schwartz Won't Be Down For Breakfast.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:18 pm
by Goofyernmost
darph nader wrote:Oh man. :( Thought he passed away 'years' ago. Shows you how much I keep up on current events.
All that beer might possibly blur your social vision. Social vision is overrated!
Re: Sherwood Schwartz Won't Be Down For Breakfast.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:09 pm
by darph nader
Goofyernmost wrote:All that beer might possibly blur your social vision. Social vision is overrated!
Yeah,well. Workin does the same thing. Being pummeled by some BS stuff doesn't help either. :mad:
Re: Sherwood Schwartz Won't Be Down For Breakfast.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:13 pm
by DLRFantasmic!Dan
darph nader wrote:Oh man. :( Thought he passed away 'years' ago. Shows you how much I keep up on current events.
You must be living under a rock, :D
Re: Sherwood Schwartz Won't Be Down For Breakfast.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:14 pm
by BRWombat
Not just the shows themselves, he also wrote the theme songs to both shows! I seem to recall that as slapsticky as both shows could be, he took them very seriously -- even talking about how the diverse personalities stranded together on Gilligan's Island were analogy for the nations of the world learning to live together in harmony! And yet I appreciated how he was able to poke fun at them later on. He even co-wrote the scripts for the Brady Bunch movies, which were parodies as much as homages.
Re: Sherwood Schwartz Won't Be Down For Breakfast.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:05 pm
by Zazu
Schwartz didn't spend his last years idle. He was living here in Central Florida, and wrote "Gilligan's Island: The Musical", and it's first performance was in the Walt Disney Theater at the Magic Kingdom. Staged by STAGE and viewed only by cast and friends, it was at least as good as the TV show.
Taking the stage after the show, he asked, "Whaddaya think, is it ready yet? I think it needs a little more work, but I've got the time and interest. We'll see if I've got the talent!"
Yeah, I think he did.