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Ethel and Ernest: A True Story Raymond Briggs
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

It's a true happy-ending story that I felt needed to be told and happy that I was asked to be a part of it. It was only later, reading Ethel and Ernest and having such a strong reaction to his story telling and art that I looked up Briggs and realized who he was. Ernest Borgnine in 2006 via Wikimedia Commons. In 1964, many an eyebrow was raised when Ethel Merman married Ernest Borgnine. Ethel and Ernest: A True Story, Raymond Briggs has used his parents in his work before. Ethel and Ernest: A True Story From Raymond Briggs, author and illustrator of the beloved book, The Snowman, comes Ethel and Ernest: A True Story. Rather than speak ill of the recently departed, I refer you all to the famous chapter ("My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine") in Ethel Merman's memoir. In the case of a character actor like Ernest .. Her use of her childhood diaries, writings, and illustrations make this almost an archival work of her family's story and reveals the emotional torment Bechdel endured. While it is true that in 1964 Borgnine was an Academy Award-winning actor and star of the popular sitcom McHales Navy, Merman had been a stage and screen star for three decades, and had just enjoyed international acclaim in the hit comedy To do this when Merman is no longer around to tell her side of the story forever marks Borgnine as a coward, and a lying coward at that. It's a famous quip, one that is proven true virtually every time a former Oscar-winner -- or even a nominee -- dies, even when their celebrity is such that a puny golden statuette hardly seems their most culturally significant achievement. Photo of Lily Renee by Jo Ann Toy for Newsweek - click on the image to be taken to the websource.