Black berets, bongo drums, Maynard G. Krebs… These are a few images that come to mind when someone utters the word “beatnik.” But the term will be reclaimed this weekend when three eminent ...

Any year that sees both Gilligan and Maynard G. Krebs head to that vast television in the sky can t be counted as very positive episode of boob tube karma. Both of characters were embodied by the late ...

Before he wore the bucket hat and stumbled into slapstick glory, Bob Denver was a shy kid with stage fright and a dream. From his beatnik start as Maynard G Krebs to his iconic turn as bumbling ...

Paul Farhi raised the great trivia question -- "What was Gilligan's first name?" -- in his Sept. 7 Style appreciation of Bob Denver. He did not ask or reveal what the "G" in Maynard G. Krebs stood for ...

Bob Denver was a smart comic actor on two dumb sitcoms. How we need smart actors and dumb sitcoms now. Denver, who died Friday at age 70, was unforgettably Gilligan, he of the eponymously named ...