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.

Comments

[Barry]

This guy is a terrific actor, one of the best ever. There aren't too many who can hold a candle to him today.

[Paul]

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.

[Malice A. Forethought]

No way man, that stuff on the 7 Deadly Sinners site is a rip off of your style, 14!

[Damien Morgan]

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.

[Betty Noir]

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.

[NY Diva]

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.

[midevil]

Thanks for the intro to Rod. Nice works on his site, eh.

[DonnaJEM]

I love his hiney-chin and sock garters! Hilarious!

[Betty Noir]

Chicks dig Dutch Ovens. So I hear.

Congrats, Mr. Filbrandt, make way for piles of that internet money!

[Wee-Bone Talker]

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.

[Jacko]

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.

[Cathey]

I love Ernest Borgnine. Hope no one is going to diss this man!

[Long Island Irish]

That is one ugly Cupid......

[Chansmom]

Wow! A blast from the past! I can't believe he's still alive. Good work!

I loved Ernest in "Marty". Great actor and great Valentines card!