Harold Hecuba will come out of retirement to direct...
It's a gamble but not unfeasable. He's notorious for those lavish musical numbers but a properly marketed soundtrack could easilly recoup the loss and possibly bring a substancial return.
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GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
October 3, 1966
In "The Producer," Hollywood deal-maker Harold Hecuba (Phil Silvers) is looking for talent in "out-of-the-way places" when his plane crashes on our favorite tropical isle. To impress the impresario, the castaways mount a musical version of "Hamlet" with Gilligan (Bob Denver) in the title roll. It ain't Shakespeare, but it does get the producer's attention.
He quickly rechristens it "Harold Hecuba's Hamlet" and swipes all the singing parts for himself (a quicksilver bit of shtick for Silvers, above, with cast). At the end of this inventive episode, Hecuba steals away -- and steals the idea -- leaving a sadder but wiser Gilligan to pronounce the moral: "Well, that's showbiz."
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- tom moody 3-07-2002 1:06 am
It's a gamble but not unfeasable. He's notorious for those lavish musical numbers but a properly marketed soundtrack could easilly recoup the loss and possibly bring a substancial return.
- steve 3-07-2002 4:10 am [add a comment]
52
GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
October 3, 1966
In "The Producer," Hollywood deal-maker Harold Hecuba (Phil Silvers) is looking for talent in "out-of-the-way places" when his plane crashes on our favorite tropical isle. To impress the impresario, the castaways mount a musical version of "Hamlet" with Gilligan (Bob Denver) in the title roll. It ain't Shakespeare, but it does get the producer's attention.
He quickly rechristens it "Harold Hecuba's Hamlet" and swipes all the singing parts for himself (a quicksilver bit of shtick for Silvers, above, with cast). At the end of this inventive episode, Hecuba steals away -- and steals the idea -- leaving a sadder but wiser Gilligan to pronounce the moral: "Well, that's showbiz."
- dave 3-07-2002 4:21 am [add a comment]