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BLACK 2A ColorFinal 2A THE PALM BEACH POST REAL NEWS STARTS HERE I MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 Back of the front OBITUARY Ernest Borgnine, 95, Oscar-winning actor MAGENTA He won acclaim in TV's 'McHale's Navy' during the 1960s. The NewYorkTimes Ernest Borgnine, the rough-hewn actor who seemed destined for tough-guy characters but won an Academy Award for embodying the gentlest of souls, a lonely Bronx butcher, in the 1955 film Marty, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 95. The death was confirmed to The Associated Press by his spokesman, Harry Flynn. Mr.

Borgnine made his first memorable impression in films at age 37, appearing in From Here to Eternity (1953) as Fatso Judson, the sadistic stockade sergeant who beats Frank Sinatra's character, Private Maggio, to death. But Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote Marty as a television play, and Delbert Mann, who directed it (Rod Stei-ger was the star of that version), saw something be yond brutality in Mr. Borgnine and offered him the title role when it was made into a feature film. The 1950s had emerged as the decade of the common man, with Willy Lo-man of Death of a Salesman on Broadway and the likes of bus driver Ralph Kram-den (The Honeymooners) and factory worker Chester Riley (The Life of Riley) on television. Mr.

Borg-nine's Marty Pilletti, a 34-year-old blue-collar bachelor who still lives with his mother, fit right in, showing the tender side of the average, unglamorous guy next door. Marty's awakening, as he unexpectedly falls in love, was described by Bos-ley Crowther in The New York Times as "a beautiful blend of the crude and the strangely gentle and sensitive in a monosyllabic man." Mr. Borgnine received the Oscar for best actor for Marty. For the same performance he also received a Golden Globe and awards from the New York Film Over a career that lasted more than six decades, the burly, big-voiced Mr. Borgnine was never able to escape typecasting completely, at least in films.

Although he did another Chayefsky screenplay, starring with Bette Davis as a working-class father of the bride in The Catered Affair (1956), and even appeared in a musical, The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956), playing a Broadway showman, the vast majority of the characters he played were villains. Military roles continued to beckon. One of his best known was as Lee Marvin's commanding officer in The Dirty Dozen (1967), about hardened prisoners on a World War II commando mission. He also starred in three television-movie sequels. But he worked in virtually every genre.

Filmmakers cast him as a gangster, even in satirical movies such as Spike ofBensonhurst (1988). He was in Westerns such as Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) and Sam Peckin- pah's blood-soaked classic The Wild Bunch (1969). McHale's Navy and the 1964 film inspired by it were his most notable forays into comedy, but in 1999 he began doing the voice of a recurring character, the elderly ex-superhero Mermaid Man, in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. Ermes Effron Borgnino was born on Jan. 24, 1917, in Hamden, near New Haven.

His father was a railroad brakeman. His mother was said to be the daughter of a count, Paolo Boselli, an adviser to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. He joined the Navy at 18 and served for 10 years. During World War II he was a gunner's mate. After the war he considered factory jobs, but his mother suggested that he try acting.

Her reasoning, he reported, was, "You've always liked making a damned fool of yourself." His survivors include his wife, Tova; a son, Christopher; and two daughters, Nancy and Sharon. 1956 ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO Grace Kelly presents Ernest Borgnine with the prize for best actor for his Marty role at the 28th Academy Awards. Critics Circle, the National Board of Review and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Mr. Borgnine won even wider fame as the star of the ABC sitcom McHale's Navy (1962-66), originating the role of an irreverent con man of a PT boat skipper.

(The cast also included a young Tim Conway.) He wrote in his 2008 YOUR WORLD AT A GLANCE SOUTHAMPTON, NY. Romney's offshore accounts targeted Mitt Romney privately raised millions of dollars from New York's elite on Sunday, as Democrats launched coordinated attacks against the likely Republican presidential nominee, intensifying calls for him to explain offshore bank accounts and release several years of tax returns. The line of attack, dismissed by the Romney campaign as an "unfounded character assault," follows new reports that raise questions about Romney's personal wealth, which could exceed $250 million. President Obama's re-election campaign is expected to push the strategy throughout the coming week, underscoring its desire to portray Romney as disconnected from the middle-class voters he needs to win the presidency. "He's the first and only candidate for the president of the United States with a Swiss bank account, with tax shelters, with tax avoidance schemes that involve so many foreign countries," Sen.

Dick Durbin, said on CBS' Face the Nation. ASMAAWAGUIH 2012 ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO Members of Egypt's Parliament confer in January before the opening session in Cairo. Nearly half of the seats in the legislature were won by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt's new president orders Parliament back into session autobiography, Ernie, that he had turned down the role because he refused to do a television series but changed his mind when a boy came to his door selling candy and said, although he knew who James Arness of Gunsmoke and Richard Boone of Have Gun, Will Travel were, he had never heard of Ernest Borgnine. tion's top generals, held an "emergency meeting" shortly after Morsi's decree was announced by the official news agency.

The generals, said the agency, met to "review and discuss the consequences" of Morsi's decision. In a separate report, the Supreme Constitutional Court, the panel that dissolved the legislature last month, will meet today to discuss Morsi's decision. The court ruling said a third of the legislature's members were illegally elected, but only ordered its dissolution in the verdict's legal citation. Acting on the court's ruling, the generals decreed the dissolution of Parliament last month, angering the Brotherhood and poisoning the atmosphere ahead of the military's handover of power to Mor-si on June 30. The basis of the ruling is that political parties breached the principle of equality by fielding candidates to run for the third of the chamber's seats set aside for independents.

The Palm Intense U.S. heat breaking Cooler air brings storms, cuts temperatures. The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA The heat that blanketed much of the United States began to ease up from unbearable to merely very hot Sunday as temperatures from the Midwest to the East Coast dropped from highs above 100 degrees down to the 90s. Cooler air swept southward in the eastern half of the country, bringing down some temperatures by 15 or more degrees from Saturday's highs, which topped 100 in cities including Philadelphia, Washington, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Louisville, Ky.

For many areas, the cooler temperatures were ushered in by thunderstorms that knocked out power to thousands. In New Jersey, a line of strong, fast-moving storms knocked out power to nearly 70,000 on Saturday night. The heat of the past several days has also been blamed for at least 35 deaths across the country. A 4-month-old girl died and a 16-month-old girl was hospitalized in suburban Indianapolis after both were found trapped in cars during 105-degree heat Saturday. Deaths have also been reported by authorities in Illinois, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

To stay cool, Americans tried familiar solutions -dipping into the pool, going to the movies and riding subways just to be in air conditioning. If Americans ventured outside to do anything, they did it early. But even then, the heat was stifling. "It was baking on the 18th green," said golfer Zeb Rogerson, who teed off at 6 a.m. at an Alexandria, golf course but was sweltering by the end of his round.

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George has received death threats, his supporters say. George Zimmerman was released Friday after posting bail for the second time on a second-degree murder charge. His attorney said Sunday he was in Seminole County. Some of Martin's supporters have been angry Zimmerman was not arrested until 46 days after the February shooting, and Zimmerman has received death threats. WASHINGTON Book: Israeli spies behind Iran killings A new book claims Israel's spy agency dispatched assassins into Iran, as part of a campaign to sabotage the country's disputed nuclear program.

Israeli operatives have killed at least four Iranian nuclear scientists, including targeting them with operatives on motorcycles, an assassination technique used by the Israeli spy service, the Mossad, according to authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in their book to be published today, Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars. The agents "excel at accurate shooting at any speed and staying steady to shoot and to place exquisitely shaped sticky bombs," Raviv said Friday. The hits are part of a series of regular missions deep inside Iran intended to keep Tehran from developing weapons and following through with threats by Iranian President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map. U.S. officials have said in the past that they were not involved, and they don't know who did it.

Palm Beach Post wire services DETROIT Hug triggers gun, killing woman A woman celebrating the weekend before her 25th birthday was fatally shot Sunday when she hugged an off-duty police officer while dancing at a party, causing the officer's service weapon to fire, according to police and her mother. Adaisha Miller would have turned 25 today, according to her mother, Yolanda McNair. The shooting happened at an outdoor social gathering about 12:30 a.m., said police Sgt. Eren Stephens. It happened on the city's west side.

According to Stephens, the woman "embraced the officer from behind, causing the holstered weapon to acci-dently discharge." The bullet punctured Miller's lung and hit her heart, and she died at a hospital. BOISE, IDAHO Firefighters fail to contain large blaze Efforts to contain a large wildfire in southern Idaho by Sunday evening were dashed as winds picked up and the region's grass and sagebrush provided fuel for a blaze estimated at 117 square miles. But conditions improved elsewhere in the West, helping crews gain ground on wildfires in Colorado and Utah. The fast-moving fire west of Twin Falls, Idaho, was first spotted Saturday afternoon and grew to 75,000 acres within 24 hours. ORLANDO Zimmerman under guard at safe house The neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting Trayvon Martin is in a safe house that is being protected by his security team.

The Associated Press CAIRO Egypt's Islamist president fired the first volley in his war with the powerful generals on Sunday, calling on the Islamist-dominated Parliament to reconvene in defiance of a military decree dissolving the legislature on the basis of a ruling by the country's highest court. A week into his presidency, Mohammed Morsi's decree could plunge the country into a new bout of instability, and possible violence, nearly 17 months after the ouster of authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak by a popular uprising. The transition period that followed has been defined more by turmoil than the freedom that followed some 30 years of authoritarian rule. His decree also called for new parliamentary elections to be held within 60 days of the adoption of a new constitution for the country, which is not expected before late this year. In the first sign of an imminent crisis, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the formal name of the body grouping the na Customer Service Delivery, billing: 561-820-4663 M-F: 6:30 a.m.

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-Sun.) $256.86 Weekends 86.31 Subscription types other than 7-day will receive the following issues in 2012 as part of the current subscription: Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. The text of Morsi's decree made no mention of the Supreme Constitutional Court's ruling, saying it was revoking the military's own decree to disband the legislature. The military decree came when the generals were in power, acting as a collective presidency. Morsi is a conservative Islamist and a longtime member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group. The fundamentalist group won nearly half of Parliament's seats when elections were held seven months ago.

Brotherhood leaders welcomed Morsi's decision, but the country's leading pro-reform campaigner, Nobel peace Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, himself a longtime critic of the military, said it undermined the country's judicial authority. The president's decree, he wrote on his Twitter account, "ushered Egypt into a constitutional coma and a conflict between the state's branches." Beach Post Please recycle this newspaper. reprint of a published staff photo, call 561 820 4231. For Palm Beach Post posters COX Media Group 2751 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, FL 33405-1233 Main telephone: 561-820-4100 (Tequestato Boynton Beach) Other areas: 800-432-7595 Periodical postage is paid at West Palm Beach.

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