Celebrity Valentines: Ernest Borgnine
Gallery of the Absurd is pleased to introduce our first guest artist, Rod Filbrandt. Rod and I share an appreciation of Ernest Borgnine, but only Rod would think to portray Borgnine as Cupid. Old Ernest has appeared in over 100 films, but my favorite was the classic 70's disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure. Watch Ernest Borgnine bark out orders on a sinking ship while angry and wet....swoon, oh how I LOVE Ernest Borgnine. See more of Rod Filbrandt's work at Chowderhead Bazoo.
I loved Ernest in "Marty". Great actor and great Valentines card!
Posted by: | February 10, 2006 at 01:54 PM
Wow! A blast from the past! I can't believe he's still alive. Good work!
Posted by: Chansmom | February 10, 2006 at 04:14 PM
That is one ugly Cupid......
Posted by: Long Island Irish | February 10, 2006 at 08:58 PM
I love Ernest Borgnine. Hope no one is going to diss this man!
Posted by: Cathey | February 11, 2006 at 06:14 AM
But let's not forget Ethel Merman's take on her marriage to Ernie. In her autobiography, she gives the chapter nothin' but blank space.
Then again, Ethel was a bitch.
Posted by: Jacko | February 11, 2006 at 07:35 AM
Yes, today's celebrities could learn a thing or two about ugly, wrong-headed, short-term marriages from old-school screw-ups like Ernie & Ethel.
But they did it with such style! And bunions.
Posted by: Wee-Bone Talker | February 11, 2006 at 09:46 AM
Chicks dig Dutch Ovens. So I hear.
Congrats, Mr. Filbrandt, make way for piles of that internet money!
Posted by: Betty Noir | February 11, 2006 at 07:03 PM
I love his hiney-chin and sock garters! Hilarious!
Posted by: DonnaJEM | February 12, 2006 at 06:49 PM
Thanks for the intro to Rod. Nice works on his site, eh.
Posted by: midevil | February 13, 2006 at 05:53 AM
I'm ashamed to say I had a boyfriend that looked exactly like him...his only redeeming quality was that he was great in bed.
Posted by: NY Diva | February 13, 2006 at 06:06 AM
Good Lord, NY Diva, you say that like it's a BAD thing. At least the guy had a redeeming quality!
(is that what the kids are calling it now?)
I dated a guy once whose redeeming quality was...uh...I'm totaly stumped. His obsession with Magnum P.I. reruns, Asian girls (which I ain't) and his own ass kind of block any good things that might have happened.
Posted by: Betty Noir | February 14, 2006 at 03:43 PM
I've always been uber impressed by this kind of work, in fact I've been looking really closely at the same stuff popping up on 7 Deadly Sinners, and drooling. Such classy, classy work.
Posted by: Damien Morgan | February 15, 2006 at 01:49 PM
No way man, that stuff on the 7 Deadly Sinners site is a rip off of your style, 14!
Posted by: Malice A. Forethought | February 21, 2006 at 03:09 PM
What was always so great about Borgnine was that he gave 110% to every role. Sometimes he chewed the scenery, but then there was a role like Marty, where he bled his feelings onto the screen.
Posted by: Paul | June 26, 2006 at 05:07 PM
This guy is a terrific actor, one of the best ever. There aren't too many who can hold a candle to him today.
Posted by: Barry | August 18, 2006 at 06:10 PM