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  • Awesome, Dear Boy: Albert Brooks was floored when Meryl Streep asked if he had a part for hernote . When he realized she was being sincere, he immediately rewrote the part of Julia for her.
  • Technology Marches On: Daniel's birthday gift is a dashboard-mounted CD player, then considered to be on the cutting-edge of music players
  • What Could Have Been:
    • The male judge states that the scenes he will see will be in 3D, while Daniel is amazed by the scenes. Originally, the script called for the scenes to be played out as if in VR, but that was dropped and was just rendered as a television screen.
    • Daniel was supposed to be sent back to Earth as a horse, but Albert Brooks realized that the love story was key and put more focus on the romance.

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