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Ernest Borgnine RIP
ChadTower:
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--- Quote from: shmokes on July 10, 2012, 09:39:23 pm ---I don't at all dislike him. I didn't say unknown; I recognized him instantly. I said none of us knew his name. Which I think is almost certainly true, or at least almost none of us knew his name.
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OK, I'll rephrase - *I* knew his name :)
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+1
He was far more famous than shmokes wants to admit.
I softly agree that we don't need a thread when a celebrity passes away of old age. It's a morbid thing to have a mini wake every time someone that we only knew from TV/movies passes away. I generally ignore them but figured I'd post here to mention that I knew his name too.
Maybe we should sticky an RIP <old entertainer> thread and bump it when someone dies. :dunno
shmokes:
Apparently more famous than I was aware. I'm skeptical, sure, primarily because I do tend to have a fairly encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood. But plenty slips through the cracks. It really has little to do with not wanting to admit it. I just find the claims incompatible with the evidence and my own experiences.
As for Kevin Bacon, Saint, you can't be serious. He was played the villain in the X-men summer blockbuster just last summer! He's one of the most well-known memes in history: six degrees of Kevin Bacon. I'll freely grant that I may have projected and underestimated the number of people who knew Ernest Borgnine by name (I still have difficulty believing it or understanding why so many people would know his name), but EVERY American adult knows who Kevin Bacon is.
ChadTower:
You're all about titles, accolades, and "letting the community collectively decide what is good" in Hollywood. You know, the Rotten Tomatoes thing.
So, let's consider this guy's resume:
* Academy Award: Best Actor
* Golden Globe: Best Actor
* Emmys in three different decades
* SAG: Lifetime Achievement Award
He was in the main cast of two successful network television shows and a whole lot of very well known movie classics. More of either than Kevin Bacon.
Vigo:
No joke, just yesterday I was talking to coworkers about Kevin bacon during lunch. Two of them didn't even know who Kevin Bacon was. Yeah, they were the young'uns. 21ish. I was the only one there under 30 who knew what 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon meant.
I guess the Baconator is not so popular these days. :dunno
Mysterioii:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 11, 2012, 03:13:51 pm --- EVERY American adult knows who Kevin Bacon is.
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All but one knew who Ernest Borgnine was... :lol