1 | * BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,383,747. This was one of Creator/WoodyAllen's most highly {{Acclaimed Flop}}s. |
2 | * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/DianneWiest took the part of Helen Sinclair specifically for this reason, as she wanted to play something besides the nice, emotionally troubled characters she had been known for. |
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4 | ** The running theme of the film is that a true artist has their own moral code. This is probably a rebuke by Creator/WoodyAllen to those who decried his affair and marriage to Soon-Yi Previn. |
5 | ** Creator/ChazzPalminteri is a brilliant writer, and is usually typecast as Italian doofuses. |
6 | * SparedByTheCut: Originally, [[spoiler:gangster turned playwright Cheech]] was supposed to live and become a theatrical success without losing his more sinister elements, but he dies in the final version. |
7 | * ThrowItIn: Cheech's last line, "Don't speak!", was ad-libbed. |
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