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Ernest Borgnine RIP
shmokes:
Agreed. Both prolifically and perpetually work well, and both lend some credence to your claim. But I don't think you can make a good argument to complete the alliteration with "prominently". He has not had prominent roles in decades, let alone 2011.
ChadTower:
He won an Emmy in 2009. I would call that prominent.
Spongebob Squarepants is prominent if we want to count voice acting.
saint:
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You're all about titles, accolades, and "letting the community collectively decide what is good" in Hollywood. You know, the Rotten Tomatoes thing.
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I think that's actually me :)
shmokes:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 11, 2012, 04:09:15 pm ---Spongebob Squarepants is prominent if we want to count voice acting.
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Yeah, we don't want to count that. Unless you think people spend much time reading credits after children's cartoons.
And even his Emmy is only questionably prominent. Nobody watches the Emmys to begin with (fewer than 15 million, compared with greater than 40 million for the Academy Awards, for example). And his award was for Outstanding Guest Actor. Which almost by definition is the opposite of a prominent role in a TV series (key word being guest).
I agree that his stint on ER appears to be his most prominent role in a very long time. But I wouldn't describe the role as objectively prominent.
ChadTower:
That's reasonable. The issue at hand, though, is not how recent his prominence is. The issue is overall fame and familiarity. :)
The opposite of a prominent role in a TV series can't be an Emmy winning guest spot. It would be more like sitting at a PC arguing over how famous Ernest Borgnine should be considered.
FML. :banghead: