Trivia

Extensive re-shoots on this film forced Kevin Kline to withdraw from Hook (1991). He was replaced by Robin Williams.

Burt Reynolds turned down the lead role, because his then wife, Loni Anderson, told him that the whole of Hollywood would laugh at her, as Reynolds and Sally Field once had a very publicized love affair.

David Barnes (Robert Downey, Jr.) was originally written as a 50-year-old man. But director Michael Hoffman, who had worked with Downey before on an unfinished film called "Back East", had the part re-written to fit Downey's age.

Production designer Eugenio Zanetti described the main studio set as a playful rendering of Dante's Inferno. The stage where the actors works seems like a pit, red and warm. Above this are the rings of offices and dressing rooms that look down upon the stage area, giving the impression of no privacy and that everybody is spying on everybody else.

Cathy Moriarty said this was her favorite performance.

Ben Stein: As a nitwit executive, billed as "Benjamin Stein".

Stephen Nichols: Credited, as himself.

Leeza Gibbons: Credited, as herself, an Entertainment Tonight (1981) reporter.

John Tesh: Credited, as himself, an Entertainment Tonight (1981) reporter.