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• The bar in which Montgomery and Spike start a brawl is called Torchy's, the same name of the bar Eddie Murphy shook down in director Walter Hill's 48 Hrs. (1982). The Torchy's waitress in this film who phones in the brawl to the police is played by Margot Rose, who appeared in "48 Hrs." as the girlfriend of a character who (we're told) used to tend bar at Torchy's. In yet another nod to Hill's 1982 box-office hit, the car driven by Brewster's personal photographer is a sky-blue Cadillac convertible, the same type of heap driven by Nick Nolte in that earlier film.
  
  
• This is the seventh film adaptation of George Barr McCutcheon's 1902 novel.
  
  
• In quote shown onscreen between scenes, Chuck Fleming refers to "the road of excess" leading to "the palace of wisdom", an allusion to William Blake's poem "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell".
  
  
• The sound of the clock (when Angela Drake furiously writes out a receipt to Monty near the end of the film) comes courtesy of the New England Digital Synclavier. The Synclavier was an extremely expensive (approx. $200,000 in 1985 USD) digital sampler used not only in the production of many pop records of the time, but in sound design for motion pictures as well.
  
  
• As a nod to 48 Hrs. (1982), the bookie who lays down all the bets for Richard Pryor wears the exact same suit that _Eddie Murphy (I)_ also wore.
  
  
• Architectural Digest, the magazine that Warren mentions in regard to he and his ex-wife's work, actually exists.
  
  
• Brewster's political party "None of the Above" (NOTA) is used in jurisdictions or organizations giving a voter who is against all choices on a ballot a chance to indicate his disapproval with all of the candidates in any voting system. The underlying principle is that legitimate consent requires the ability to withhold consent, allowing voters to withhold their consent in an election to office, just as they can by voting no on ballot questions.
  
  
• The exterior of the bar "Torchy's" seen at the beginning of the film, is also pictured in a key scene of the film When a Stranger Calls (1979).
  
  
• 'Jennifer Beals' was up for the Angela role before Lonette McKee was cast.
  
  

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