Brian's family lived in SoCal, IIRC, next door to Ernest Borgnine, prior to Ernie's big break in the movie "Marty." Brian told an interesting story about Ernie. One year, around Thanksgiving, Ernie was flat out broke, with no where to celebrate the holiday. Brian's parents invited Ernie to dinner. Next thing they know, Marty is a hit, Ernie moves away, doesn't say good bye, and that's the end of that.
I finally rented Marty a year or so ago. Wife and I liked it, a nice, light affair...story of an adult who lives with his widowed mother, hangs with his buddies every day, meets a great gal, his friends get jealous, he dumps the gal...I won't spoil the ending. Black and white, Ernie's shows his future acting strengths, I liked it, especially his mom and aunt's characters, classic. The end arrives suddenly, out of nowhere. Really dug Ernie in that NCIS episode a few years ago, very funny.
Can't remember if it was Brian's mom or dad who worked for Disney, decades prior to Disney becoming the current garbage dump of an entertainment industry.
Two bits of trivia Brian shared whilst soldering crossovers one day while I assembled speakers:
"Pulling my leg" came from good ole medieval days when children were hung for stealing. Children are too light to break their necks in hanging, so a friendly "civil servant" would pull their legs.
"His name is mud" does not denote dirt, but rather Dr. Mud. John Wilkes Boothe of course injured his leg in the jump at the theater. Boothe came upon a Dr. Mud, who did not check his internet news, and knew nothing of the assassination. Mud set Boothe's leg and set him on his way. When the posse arrived later they promptly and wrongly hung poor Dr. Mud, whose name was not cleared till, IIRC, Pres. Carter.