| @minnmich: I knew the makeup might make things dicey, so that's why I put his name in the URL. The greasepaint is the context of Ernest Borgnine's connection to Milwaukee. Johnny Carson once asked Borgnine, “What’s left?” Borgnine, in some light on-air banter, said “lots of things.” “Like what?” Carson pressed. Borgnine replied, “Well, I’ve never been a clown.” So, the organizers of Milwaukee's Great Circus Parade contacted Ernie and invited him, and he's become a fixture now, in clownface, for decades. :) |