Today is Ernest Borgnine's birthday. This Blogger had just finished an extremely stressful assigment; as a break from stress, he became a gofer on an independent film, THE YOUNG WARRIORS, shot in Canada. Since he was the oldest gofer in living memory, he became the driver to the lead of the film, Ernest Borgnine. He was the kindest, funniest guy you ever dealt with, without pretension or crassness or phoniness. We were shooting in  a very small town outside of Vancouver; at night, he would go food shopping by himself. This Blogger, and a hired local goon shadowed him for safety's sake. That was a waste of time; the  locals were enthralled, and he was patient with their requests for pictures, and autographs. Naturally, he had great stories about  Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden,Ward Bond, Nicholas Ray, Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Valerie French,Glenn Ford, Randolph Scott, Burt Lancaster,Gary Cooper, Charles Bronson,Robert Aldrich, Spenc...