1. Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a Globe winner for best acting debut with 1'76‘s "Stay Hungry." "On behalf of all Californians, I congratulate the nominees on their accomplishments, and I wish all in attendance a memorable night," Schwarzenegger‘s letter read.

2. In the four years after The Last Picture Show he was a young boxer pathetically hooked on getting ahead in the fight game in John Huston‘s superb Fat City; leader of a band of Civil War draft–dodgers out west in Robert Benton‘s directorial debut Bad Company (a Vietnam War allegory); the alcoholic young drifter in the John Frankenheimer film version of Eugene O‘Neill‘s The Iceman Cometh; a juvenile criminal drawn into an intense relationship with Clint Eastwood in Michael Cimino‘s debut Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; the innocent who comes to 1'30s California to make his name as a writer and becomes a B–movie actor in Howard Zieff‘s Hearts of the West; and the eccentric Atlanta millionaire who takes up with local body–builders in Bob Rafelson‘s offbeat Stay Hungry.