I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you.

With these words, a tearful Ving Rames handed the best actor Golden Globe he just won

to legendary Thespian Jack Lemon, a humble tribute to an actor who'd inspired his career.

The late lemon called the onstage gesture at the 1998 Globes ceremony, one of the nicest

sweetest moments I've ever known in my life.

Four years earlier, Rames, a hulking character actor with a distinct, resonant voice, had

delivered a breakout performance in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction, as

menacing crime boss Marcella Swalas, described in Tarantino and Roger Avery's screenplay as

quote, a cross between a gangster and a king.

First introduced an unbroken over-the-shoulder shot that highlighted an unexplained band-aid

on the back of his head.

Tarantino later clarified it was to cover the actor's scar for the camera.

Rames's Wallace hoarded at a disproportionate chunk of the movie's memorable lines.

Rames's career send several ladder rungs after the film, and he since delivered memorable

performances in commercial hits like Conair and the Mission Impossible franchise, and scene

stealing turns in critical hits like Sutterberg's Out of Site and Scorsese bringing out the

dead.

Flash forward to 2011.

America's second largest sandwich chain, which had been founded in Ohio back in 1964,

had just posted a $35 million loss.

With its sales declining, and with its heavy, unhealthy food having become a pop culture

punching bag ridiculed by the Simpsons sign-filled in the Daily Show, the company launched a turnaround

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