Tweet RIP Ernest Borgnine

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/celebrities/oscar-winning-film-star-ernest-borgnine-dies-in-la-at-age-95/2012/07/08/gJQAU1CgWW_story.html

Sad news; a superb character lead, the like of which they don't make any more.

Anybody with kids will always smile thinking of his voice work as Spongebob Squarepants' totally senile hero Mermaid Man!

And that moves Maximilian Schell up a notch for earliest still living Best Actor Oscar winner, Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961 and then up ten years for Gene Hackman in The French Connection. Irwin