The entertainment awards shows used to be wildly popular on TV before the audience shattered into a thousand pieces. When a celebrity decided to make a pompous political statement, it was memorable – like in 1973, when Marlon Brando sent an Indian activist named Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his Oscar for “The Godfather” in protest.
Brando wanted to highlight how Indians were badly portrayed by Hollywood – as he made an Italian mobster movie, which surely didn’t lead to any ethnic stereotyping whatsoever.
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