Well... at least it's not a reboot. Not really. The tale of seven people on a three-hour tour that goes really, really awry will be revived for a new generation.
The classic '60s TV series "Gilligan's Island" has been dusted off by Warner Bros for a big screen treatment, according to Variety. Most of you readers are probably far too young to have been around during its three-season run from 1964 to 1967 -- I certainly am -- but I imagine most if not all of you have encountered the sitcom or at least some reference to it over the course of your lives.
If you haven't... wow. The story follows a group of tourists who are marooned on an island after their tour boat, the S.S. Minnow, is shipwrecked in a storm. The seven trapped people comprise a colorful group, as the series' unforgettable theme song clearly states. Read More...
Thursday night, on a flight from Los Angeles to New York, I settled into my emergency-exit-row seat next to a woman with ginger-colored hair who looked familiar but I couldn't quite place. We talked casually during the flight — I taught her about Google video chat and she told me about her daughter, Caprice Crane, a writer and producer who is working on the new "90210." (I then launched into a rant of how obsessed I am with the original "Beverly Hills, 90210," which I immediately regretted — I can be a little fanatical about that show ...) 
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