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-Woody Allen has always strenuously denied that the film is autobiographical. Allen has said in the book "Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman" (1994): "[Critics] thought that the lead character was me. Not a fictional character but me. Not a fictional character but me, and that I was expressing hostility towards my audience. That was in no way the point of the film. It was about a character who is obviously having a sort of nervous breakdown and, in spite of success, has come to a point in his life where he is having a bad time".
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-The movie is based on weekend film festivals that were hosted by movie critic Judith Crist, who can be seen in a cameo in Sandy Bates' magician fantasy.
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-Working title for this film was "Woody Allen No. 4". Allen told an interviewer that "I am not even half of the Fellini of Huit et demi (1963)".
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-This film largely stemmed from a riposte by Woody Allen to a hostile article written about him by novelist Joan Didion, and to the Academy's seeming indifference to his "serious" film Intérieurs (1978).(boring i'd say) This explains the film's relatively sour mood towards the critical community and indeed the movie-going public.
-Tony Roberts' character makes reference to his dating a Playboy Playmate. In his final shot in the movie, Roberts is shown talking to Candy Loving, who was indeed Playboy's 25th-Anniversary Playmate.
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-Woody Allen's final film for United Artists. The UA executives who had worked with Allen for a decade quit UA to form Orion Pictures, where Allen joined them foranother decade.
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-In the scene where the movie execs criticize Sandy's film, two of the execs are Andy Albeck (a real-life executive who worked with Woody Allen at United Artists) and Jack Rollins (one of Allen's long-time managers).
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-When Woody Allen edited his films, he would play old music records in the cutting room to help him establish the rhythm of a scene being edited. This was the first movie in which Allen used the old music on his movie's soundtrack.
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-Woody Allen once said of the casting of Charlotte Rampling in this film in the book "Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman" (1994): "She was just right for that part. I mean, she is so beautiful and so sexy and so interesting. She has an interesting neurotic quality".
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-The character of Dorrie was modeled on Allen's own ex-wife Louise Lasser, who took an uncredited cameo in the film.
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-In 1978, Laraine Newman was quoted in Rolling Stone as having been told by Woody Allen that she was the only member of the original "Saturday Night Live"cast who seemed like a genuine actor. She was given the uncredited role of the only female movie executive.
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-The paperback Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) autographs for the boy while having lunch with the new studio heads is the Monarch Notes version of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
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-The scene where Shelly has made her way into Sandy's bed without his knowledge is an homage to John Huston's Le malin (1979), made just one year earlier.Actress Amy Wright does exactly the same thing to that movie's main character, Hazel Motes.
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-The name of the hotel was The Hotel Stardust. The building was in reality the building of the The Ocean Grove's Great Auditorium, NJ.
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-The enlarged-photo-themed wallpaper in Sandy's apartment changed to offer reflections on or counterpoints to the scenes in which they appear. In the scene where Sandy & Dorrie are arguing about his flirting with her 13-year-old cousin it shows a newspaper headline that reads "Incest betw... father's and..."
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The name of the movie that director Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) was seen making in the film was "Suppression".
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-The movie features a magic show sequence. Woody Allen got his start in show-business performing magic tricks at sixteen years of age.
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-According to the book "Woody: Movies from Manhattan" (1996) by Julian Fox, Sharon Stone said of her big kiss on the window in the train: "I gave it my best shot to melt that sucker".
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Cameo
-Sharon Stone: As a Pretty Girl on train.
-Louise Lasser: Uncredited, as Sandy Bates (Woody Allen)'s Secretary.
-Jack Rollins: Woody Allen's regular producer as a Studio Executive.
