YOU KNOW THE famous story about Marlon Brando refusing to accept his second Oscar in person, sending Sacheen Littlefeather to reject it in his stead. But he also didn't show up for his only Emmy, which he won in 1979 for playing neo-Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell in "Roots: The Next Generations." But there was no Sacheen Littlefeather this time. On his behalf, presenter John Ritter accepted the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special.

Banana Republics: Woody Allen said that he called his 1971 film "Bananas" "because there are no bananas in it." He was originally thinking of calling it "El Weirdo." It also included a small role for some nobody named Sylvester Stallone, who played a subway thug. In the movie, a consumer products tester named Fielding Mellish ended up as the dictator of San Marcos, mostly to impress a girl.

Celebrity Snacks: Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Elle Macpherson created a restaurant chain called Fashion Cafe in 1995. Meant to walk in the footsteps of the Hard Rock Cafe and Planet Hollywood, the chain also had many of the same problems. It didn't help that two other, similar celebrity chains (Country Star and the Motown Cafe) launched at the same time. Within a couple years, all three went bust, taking Planet Hollywood down, as well.

Papist Trivia I: Lucia dos Santos entered the convent in 1925 and in the 1940s claimed she'd

been given a three-part prophecy at Fatima, Portugal, back when the Virgin Mary reportedly had appeared in 1917. The first is a vision of hell; the second supposedly predicts World War II. After much anticipation, in 2000 John Paul II released the Third Secret of Fatima, about a pope murdered atop a ruined hill by soldiers. He thought it was about the attempt on his own life.

Bogie in the Caribbean: There is a Hollywood legend that Ernest Hemingway bet Howard Hawks he couldn't film "To Have and Have Not." Hawks won the bet, when he produced a film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. One writer hired to work on the script was a down-on-his-luck William Faulkner, making this an unprecedented instance of a book by one Nobel laureate being adapted for film by another.

Dennis the Menace Hates His Mom: In the 1990s, the Dayton Daily News accidentally switched the caption for "Dennis the Menace" with the caption for "The Far Side," leading Dennis to say to his mother, "I see your little, petrified skull "... labeled and resting on a shelf somewhere." The line was much funnier in Dennis' mouth than in that of Gary Larson's Neolithic fortune teller. Does anybody out there know what Dennis was supposed to say?

E-mail Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit triviahalloffame.com.

Grammar Rules: Do people laugh at you for being picky about grammar? In 2006, a grammar mistake cost Rogers Communication $2.13 million. The Canadian telecom giant thought it had a rock-solid deal to use utility poles, but a misplaced comma allowed the supplier to cancel the deal. Something similar happened to the U.S. government in 1872, when a misplaced comma accidentally made all fruit duty-free, costing the treasury a then-whopping $1 million.