* Sharon Taggart as Charlene Duggs, Sonny's dumpy, unpleasant girlfriend in the first act.

The case is brought to court, where Sonny has his friends as counsel, including Layla ( Joey Lauren Adams ), Corinne's sister and Sonny's new girlfriend ; and late-arrivee Kevin.

Two of his male friends, Phil ( Allen Covert ) and Tommy ( Peter Dante ), from school, in contrast to their conduct in Sonny's experience while at school, are now revealed to be homosexual and in a committed domestic partnership, which weirded Mike ( Jonathan Loughran ), another friend of Sonny.

* Originally Caan was to be cast as the main character Michael Corleone ( Sonny's youngest brother ), while Carmine Caridi was signed as Sonny.

There he befriends a very disturbed fellow patient, Marlon Borunki ( Dom DeLuise ), who agrees to help in Sonny's quest to end it all.

Once Connie finds out what Michael has done ( though apparently not knowing of Carlo's role in Sonny's death ), she flies into a hysterical rage and denounces him in front of his wife, Kay ; she resents Michael for some time afterward.

In the former, Aldo witnesses Luca Brasi's murder, kills Luca's assassin, plants the gun for Michael Corleone ( Joseph May ) to kill Sollozzo ( Richard Newman ) and Captain McCluskey ( Gavin Hammon ), helps Rocco Lampone ( Michael Dobson ) put the horse's head in Jack Woltz's bed, guards Don Corleone at the hospital, witnesses the death of Sonny Corleone ( James Caan ), kills Sonny's assassins, appears at the meeting of the Five Families and kills the Dons of the four other families during the baptism scene.

He follows the trail of clues to nightclub owner Chillas ( Sonny's assailant ), and Chillas's lackey Bruce, who runs the gym Sonny used to frequent.

At Mary Bono's request, Cher gave a eulogy at Sonny's funeral.

The differences in their political views separated them, and the two had not spoken for more than a year at the time of Sonny's fatal skiing accident in January 1998.

Police Quest II is notably more ' mature ' than the first title in the series, and relies much more on proper procedure ; failure to properly maintain Sonny's firearm at various points throughout the game will cause it to malfunction or misfire, and proceeding into a dangerous situation without proper backup will usually prove fatal.

) Sonny's older brother, Jim Hickam, excelled at football and expected to get a college football scholarship.

Sonny's first attempt at rocketry consisted of a flashlight tube and model airplane body as a casing that was fueled by flash powder from old cherry bombs.

She is supportive of Sonny's rocket building, but often finds herself at odds with her husband, Homer Sr., about the rocket building.

* Dorothy Plunk is Sonny's dream girl ; he even describes her as " God's Perfection " at one point in the memoir.

Later at the club, Phil is arrested for destruction of city property and trespassing in the area they raced through, reckless driving, and hit-and-run and manslaughter for Sonny's death.

When Sonny's trial nears its end, the prosecutor, Claire Walsh, issues a subpoena to bring Michael in to testify, believing that Michael's testimony will ensure Sonny's conviction.

When Jacy hears of Sonny's affair with Ruth, she sets her sights on him and Ruth gets nudged out very quickly.

Kira then enters the discussion, saying the emotions she has toward Sonny are new to her -- if only they could have one more night together, Sonny's dream of success for the nightclub Xanadu could come true.

She was also the valedictorian of Sonny's graduating high school class and took Sonny's spot in a calculus class because her grades were higher.

Though Alexis aids Jax in his attempts, she is fully aware that Jax is being unreasonable and continually urges him to try and compromise with Carly to no avail ; recalling that her attempts to keep Kristina safe from Sonny's violent world did nothing but convince Kristina that her father didn't love her, Alexis fears that Jax may make the same mistake with Josslyn.

Carly, having vowed to distance herself and her family from Sonny, approaches Alexis and asks her for help in keeping their children away from Sonny, but Alexis, openly skeptical that Carly is ready to give up being Sonny's enabler, flatly refuses to help her, reminding her of Kristina's rebellion and car-bomb injuries the year before as a direct result of her trying to keep Kristina and Sonny apart, and subsequently gives Carly a verbal scalding, telling her that what happened to Jax is just as much her fault as Sonny's because she riled Sonny up and set him on Jax in the first place.

There are several chains with mass-produced items of Southern cuisine on their menus, such as Cracker Barrel, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Church's Chicken, Mrs. Winner's, Sonny's, Tudor's Biscuit World and Popeye's.

Two scenes got slightly longer treatments: Ruth's and Sonny's return from the doctor, and the boys ' returning Billy to Sam after his encounter with Jemmie Sue — both had added dialogue.

She refuses Sonny's desire to be reconciled, although she assures him that she will not interfere with his right to see his children.

A short debate between Sonny and Zeus occurs with Mnemosyne interceding on Kira and Sonny's behalf.

* General Mills packaged a game with Cocoa Puffs cereal, which included the main game " Sonny's Race for Chocolaty Taste ", a demo of " Moop and Dreadly: The Treasure on Bing Bong Island ", and a copy of AOL.

Hooper leaves for the studio, with Gwen, in a futile last-ditch attempt to change Sonny's mind, saying she wouldn't be there when he comes back.

Sonny's name comes from the original format for the commercials, in which he was paired with his Grandfather.

Also, as of December 1, 2009, the Tifton, Georgia restaurant became known as The Smokehouse Restaurant due to disputes with Sonny's over imagery and icons in the restaurant itself and on employees ' clothing.

Vincent endears himself to his uncle by trying to protect him from rival Mafia families ; the aging don sees that Vincent has inherited Sonny's temper and fears he will suffer his father's fate, and so takes him under his wing with the encouragement of his sister, Connie.

Later in 2004, Alexis gets involved with Sonny's half-brother, Ric Lansing, played by Rick Hearst.

Distraught, Alexis goes to speak with the mayor's wife the same night Sonny's wife Claudia is run off the road.

At home, Calogero is confronted by his father, who saw him driving Sonny's car from the window.

Suddenly, he is confronted by a furious Sonny and his crew, who found a bomb in Sonny's car and suspected Calogero of planning to assassinate him.

After Sonny's assassination, Vito chooses Michael to succeed him as head of the Corleone Family.

She is instrumental in persuading Michael to take Sonny's youngest son Vincent Corleone under his wing and groom him as the new Don.

In 1980, Michael appointed Sonny's illegitimate son, Vincent Mancini, to be his successorthe Don and head of the Corleone familyallowing him to change his name to Vincent Corleone.

On Sonny's birthday he isolates from his birthday party, and calls Patricia who comes up to check on him.

Adamsky soon runs after Sonny and traces him to the house, where he performs the exorcism, releasing Sonny's soul.

* Kathryn & Francesca Corleone — Cousins ; Sonny's twin daughters.