Hollywood Journalist Recalls His Long History with Ernest Borgnine

Long before Scott Feinberg joined the ranks of professional film awards bloggers in the fall of 2008, he started working as a Connecticut high school student on a book about classic Hollywood movies. One of the first big names he convinced to participate was Ernest Borgnine, who passed away over the weekend at age 95.

However, as Feinberg recalls in his Hollywood Reporter tribute to the late Oscar winner, this exciting “get” didn’t quite pan out as planned:

I spent hours and hours preparing for the interview… On the appointed day, at 8 a.m.,

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