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Whom would you cast as TV's favorite castaways?

By now, almost every classic television series from the 1950s and 1960s that anyone really remembers has been made into a big-screen, big-budget, big-star motion picture for cinemas. Two glaring exceptions remain: Hogan's Heroes, which is probably safe from such treatment in this era of political correctness, and that "tale of a fateful trip" that lasted only three seasons on CBS but gained a generation of fans in syndication, Gilligan's Island. With the passing of its star, Bob Denver, last fall, I began awaiting news of a Gilligan movie, but so far nobody at the major studios has made any such plans public.

Naturally, if (when?) such a film does come about, no one else but John Goodman could possibly play Capt. Jonas Grumby, AKA "The Skipper." Likewise, only Jim Carrey comes close to having the kind of rubber-faced, manic innocence and adeptness at physical comedy needed to pull off Gilligan. Carrey, though, may now be too old and too far down the road of high-minded dramatic thespian to do it. Robin Williams is definitely too old, but in a pinch I might allow for the possibility of Andy Dick. (I used to like watching him, but Dick's slobbering all over poor Nichelle Nichols and practically everyone else at Shatner's roast on Comedy Central last year still leaves a bad taste in my brain.)

So...who would you pick to round out the "seven stranded castaways" on the big-screen version of TV's most famous uncharted desert isle? (And if they do make this and Dawn "Mary Ann" Wells doesn't at least get a cameo, someone's gonna get hurt—badly. Ditto for Russell Johnson and Tina Louise, if she's finally mellowed out about the whole thing.) Is Uma Thurman glamour-puss enough to tackle playing sultry starlet Ginger Grant? Is there anyone who can play mega-millionaire Thurston Howell III without aping the late, lamented Jim Backus? William H. Macy might work as the Professor, and I would just love to see what Glenn Close could do with the role of Mrs. Howell, AKA "Lovey." Whattaya think?