R.I.P. Ernest Borgnine.

I heard today about the pass­ing of Ernest Borg­nine. I often enjoyed him on the TV show “McHale’s Navy” and I watched his Oscar win­ning per­for­mance in “Marty” because I wanted to see him do some­thing dif­fer­ent. He was a very suc­cess­ful char­ac­ter actor who proved he could be a lead­ing man. I didn’t real­ize he was the voice of Mer­maid­man on Sponge Bob Square Pants. But what really endeared me to Ernest was his reg­u­lar par­tic­i­pa­tion in Milwaukee’s Great Cir­cus Parade, dressed as a clown. He wasn’t known for phys­i­cal com­edy, but he cer­tainly appre­ci­ated it.