Ride along on the first part of our Nicholas Cage series if you think biting the head off a fish is attractive to ladies and monitor lizards in top hats are cool. Is fried cricket good in an egg salad sandwich? Did Sean Penn try to halt Nick's rising star? Would you marry a man who had Poky from Gumby's voice? August Coppola may have told Nicky that he was too restrained as an actor, but we think his work speaks for itself.

With so much thanks to the author Zach Schonfeld and his book "How Coppola Became Cage" for a hilarious and insightful ride through Nick's early life.