24. Brando skipped the Academy Awards and sent Sacheen Littlefeather in his stead to explain why he was declining the Oscar to protest Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.
25. Pachino was also a no-show at the Oscars because he felt he should have been in the best actor and not supporting actor category given that he had more screen time than Brando.
26. Robert De Niro and Marlin Brando win Oscars for playing the same character at different points in his life. (Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix won Oscars for playing the Joker -- but two very different versions of the character in two standalone movies.
27. That was a real horse's head.
28. James Caan's Sonny favored the nonsensical phrase "bada bing."
29. Caan had overheard the real-life mobster Carmine Persico using the phrase.
--RoadBing
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