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DIED. BOB DENVER, 70, perennially goofy sitcom star, most famously of the critically panned but ceaselessly popular Gilligan's Island, which aired from 1964 to 1967 and is still in reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") on TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...
After some patchy times and a couple near misses with record companies, McGuinness struck a deal with Island in 1980 that allowed an unusual amount of creative independence ("They had to accept the record without any question"), and the band released its first album, Boy. That same year, it paid its first visit to America, opening in Boston for a band of what Bono calls "some local renown. We started to play, and all the people started standing up, turning over the tables. The place was packed. Steam was dripping off the ceilings, and they wouldn't let us leave...
...that could stand as its anthem. That was Sunday Bloody Sunday from 1983's War, a tune about the divisive heat and blind violence of modern Ireland that curried no favor on either side. War was U2's best work until The Joshua Tree; the year after its release, Island, detecting seismic vibrations, renegotiated the band's contract with McGuinness. "Now U2's in an absolutely unique position," he reports. "They own outright every song they ever wrote, and they always will...
BEST PUNCH: The privacy-loving couple planned to hold the Aug. 24 wedding of Downey and Levin at their Long Island estate until they balked at a deal to sell the nuptial photos to a magazine. Their reps said they wished the newlyweds "all the happiness in the world...
BERMUDA Name: Bermuda Culinary Arts Festival Dates: Oct. 21-24, '05 Such top chefs as Bourdain, Pino Maffeo and Michael Lomonaco will converge on the island, known for pink sand beaches and a growing culinary scene, for seminars on organic farming, chef demonstrations and a Bermuda fish-chowder competition...