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 Posted:   Sep 5, 2018 - 11:08 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/gilligans-island-star-is-dollar200k-in-debt-turns-to-fans-for-help/ar-BBMVonO?li=BBnb7Kz

 
 Posted:   Sep 6, 2018 - 7:57 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

The fundraising page noted that Dawn got hit hard during the 2008 recession and lost almost all of her savings.


That's exactly what happened to me. I wish her well.

 
 Posted:   Sep 6, 2018 - 8:30 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

I'm not sure I think much of her assuming celebrity (which surely paid well for a long while) can get her this.

But I still wish her luck.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 6, 2018 - 8:59 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

I'm not sure I think much of her assuming celebrity (which surely paid well for a long while) can get her this.

But I still wish her luck.


ACtually, if you're referring to "residuals" from GI, they only got residuals for the first few reruns, then NOTHING!

 
 Posted:   Sep 6, 2018 - 9:13 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I'm not sure I think much of her assuming celebrity (which surely paid well for a long while) can get her this.

But I still wish her luck.


ACtually, if you're referring to "residuals" from GI, they only got residuals for the first few reruns, then NOTHING!


That was my thinking, they didn't profit off of their shows like they do nowadays.

 
 Posted:   Sep 11, 2018 - 8:24 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

I'm not sure I think much of her assuming celebrity (which surely paid well for a long while) can get her this.

But I still wish her luck.


ACtually, if you're referring to "residuals" from GI, they only got residuals for the first few reruns, then NOTHING!


I'm talking about the fact that she was a celebrity gaining her advantages that non-celeb's do not, including financial ones unrelated to Gilligan's Island residuals.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 11, 2018 - 9:15 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

I'm not sure I think much of her assuming celebrity (which surely paid well for a long while) can get her this.

But I still wish her luck.


ACtually, if you're referring to "residuals" from GI, they only got residuals for the first few reruns, then NOTHING!


I'm talking about the fact that she was a celebrity gaining her advantages that non-celeb's do not, including financial ones unrelated to Gilligan's Island residuals.


such as.....?

 
 Posted:   Sep 11, 2018 - 9:36 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

Nowadays non-celebrities with a sympathetic story get loads of Go Fund Me money all the time. The homeless guy who gave his last $20 to a stranded yuppie? His page raked in $400K.

Dawn Wells has spent her life dealing with the impositions of being world famous, while NEVER having been paid the kind of money that empowers more recent celebrities to shield themselves with secluded mansions and private security. Her generation of TV actors made very little money. I hope the funding page takes care of her. Better late than never.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 11, 2018 - 11:54 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

There are only two people still alive of the GILLIGAN cast, right -- Dawn and that "Diva" person (name escapes me at the moment...Tina something)?

 
 Posted:   Sep 12, 2018 - 8:43 AM   
 By:   mgh   (Member)

There are only two people still alive of the GILLIGAN cast, right -- Dawn and that "Diva" person (name escapes me at the moment...Tina something)?

Tina Louise. If you've ever seen the God's Little Acre LP cover, you would never forget her.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 12, 2018 - 9:00 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

I thought the old (I dunno, over 65, 70?) got free medical treatment in America.

 
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