George Lucas named Dexter Jettster after his son, Jett Lucas, but based the character on the acclaimed actor Ernest Borgnine.

I cut my pop culture teeth on silly television. Now, in my dotage, my television diet consists of re-runs, reality shows, ...

While this year's Oscars marked a victory for U.S. independent moviemaking with 'Anora' taking home best picture, it's also a ...

and Delbert Mann’s “Marty,” a New-York based crowdpleaser with Ernest Borgnine, in 1955. Billy Wilder’s “The Lost Weekend” also won the top prize at Cannes in 1945, although it wasn ...

The award went to Ernest Borgnine instead, for his performance as the lovelorn working-class butcher from the Bronx in the film adaptation of Delbert Mann’s Marty (1955). Borgnine wasn’t bad ...

When Ernest Borgnine gets his big break in Hollywood, he can hardly believe his luck. But soon he discovers his supposed star vehicle, Marty, is not the dream gig he thought it was. In this episode of ...

And I’m gonna’ die just a little more on each St. Valentine’s day . . .-Tom Waits, Blue Valentines. How I once dreaded Valentine’s Day, that cavity-inducing, flower-killing, quasi-holiday designed to ...