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Fans of nostalgia TV will be tickled pink over this first-ever collection of holiday themed TV episodes from the 50's and 60's. Seasonal episodes include: from 1954 - Robert Young and Jane Wyatt in Father Knows Best: The Christmas Story ; from 1962 - Ernest Borgnine in McHale's Navy: The Day They Captured Santa Clause ; from 1964 - Elizabeth ...

Got hot tips, pics or just want something posted send an e-mail to tips@celebdirtylaundry.com and we will be glad to post it! November 17, 2009 Nonagenarian Ernest Borgnine Academy Award-winning actor of television and the big screen, whose career has spanned for over five decades.

Paul Wendkos, who directed over 100 films and television shows during a 50-year career, including the 1959 surf movie "Gidget," has died.

Taylor Swift started what could be an interesting week with her second straight song of the year award at the BMI Country Awards Tuesday, when Kris Kristofferson was honored as an icon.

He was 92. He started his career as a magician and but found more fame as the "Magician who could never do a trick." Billing himself as "Ballantine the Great" or "The Amazing Ballantine," he created a comedy magic act similar to that of British prestidigator Tommy Cooper, where the trick always failed.

Carl Ballantine, the comedy-magician and character actor who was part of the World War II P.T. boat crew on the 1960s sit-com "McHale's Navy," has died.

Carl Ballantine, a wonderfully clever magician and comic actor, has died at age 92.

Tim Conway thinks many of the things on television these days are inappropriate for families.

Oscar-winner and Navy man Ernest Borgnine, 92, pauses in front of an American flag at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Sept.

Ernest Borgnine has been working in Hollywood for more than a half a century, in roles ranging from hard-edged soldiers to an Emmy-nominated turn on the medical drama 'ER' to an animated geriatric superhero known as Mermaid Man.

The theater in a 1958 photo. Courtesy CVLT Tim Conway, who grew up in Chagrin Falls, appeared as Ensign Pulver in Chagrin Valley Little Theatre's 1964 production of "Mr. Roberts" to help raise money to pay off the theater's mortgage.

By KAREN JEWELLHour Water ColumnistRemember the television series from way back titled "McHale's Navy?"It was one of the first sitcoms of its type and featured Ernest Borgnine as the skipper of a somewhat motley crew aboard an old PT boat.

He won the Oscar for the movie 'Marty' in 1952, then went on to star in the hit TV show Mchale's Navy.

In this Thursday, Oct. 21, 1988 file photo, Ernest Borgnine is pictured in New York.

In this Thursday, Oct. 21, 1988 file photo, Ernest Borgnine is pictured in New York.

The storied Venice Film Festival is updating its awards lineup by offering a prize for the best 3D movie of the year.

In this Thursday, Oct. 21, 1988 file photo, Ernest Borgnine is pictured in New York.

The official Emmy ballot listed 118 guest drama actors and voters were instructed that they could check off up to 10 names in each category.

Ernest Borgnine, who won the 1955 best actor Academy Award for his performance as a lovelorn butcher in the film Marty and is better known to a later generation of TV viewers as the PT-boat skipper on McHale's Navy, will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at this year's Rhode Island International Film Festival in early August.

Actor Ernest Borgnine will sign copies of his autobiography Saturday in Milwaukee.