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Ernie we hardly knew ya...well, maybe we did, but..., August 27, 2008
A fun read for any movie buff, ERNIE is Ernest Borgnine's wonderful, open autobiography that touches on virtually everyone who was anyone in Hollywood from the 1950s to the 1980s. Borgnine is very honest in his praise for co-star/mentors like Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin. He also lets it be known that while he appears to have gotten along with EVERYONE, there were the occasional sour apples (Shelley Winters drove him crazy when they got together for a Love Boat episode, Jan Michael Vincent was a trainwreck during their AIRWOLF days and Gene Hackman was extremeley standoffish on the set of THE POSIEDON ADVENTURE (surely Borgnine's most famous movie).
Never what you'd call a typical leading man, Borgnine still had the good fortune to share the screen with a bevy of major leading ladies (Joan Crawford, Susan Hayward, Bette Davis [twice!], even Raquel Welch [again, twice!]). He's candid about his marriages, including the infamous few days with Ethel Merman. There are stories about Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Sam Peckinpah and even Don Rickles (they performed in a very off-Broadway revival of THE ODD COUPLE).
Borgnine, like his signature character MARTY, is self-effacing, very grateful for a LONNNGGGG career and has written a terrific, very conversational autobiography.
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 Ernie: The Autobiography 0806529415
Ernest Borgnine
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Ernie: The Autobiography
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Ernie we hardly knew ya...well, maybe we did, but...
A fun read for any movie buff, ERNIE is Ernest Borgnine's wonderful, open autobiography that touches on virtually everyone who was anyone in Hollywood from the 1950s to the 1980s. Borgnine is very honest in his praise for co-star/mentors like Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin. He also lets it be known that while he appears to have gotten along with EVERYONE, there were the occasional sour apples (Shelley Winters drove him crazy when they got together for a Love Boat episode, Jan Michael Vincent was a trainwreck during their AIRWOLF days and Gene Hackman was extremeley standoffish on the set of THE POSIEDON ADVENTURE (surely Borgnine's most famous movie).
Never what you'd call a typical leading man, Borgnine still had the good fortune to share the screen with a bevy of major leading ladies (Joan Crawford, Susan Hayward, Bette Davis [twice!], even Raquel Welch [again, twice!]). He's candid about his marriages, including the infamous few days with Ethel Merman. There are stories about Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Sam Peckinpah and even Don Rickles (they performed in a very off-Broadway revival of THE ODD COUPLE).
Borgnine, like his signature character MARTY, is self-effacing, very grateful for a LONNNGGGG career and has written a terrific, very conversational autobiography.
P. Jewkes
August 27, 2008
- Overall: 5
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