The Paper - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[darrell]

Jill Hennessy originally had more to do, but was cut for pacing issues, as well the fact that she was filming episodes for her debut season on Law & Order (1990), which was also filmed in New York City.

[caroline]

Glenn Close played a similar character to Alicia Clark's ruthless bean counting co-editor-in-chief in the hit FX series Damages (2007), where she played a ruthless and manipulative lawyer, winning several Emmys during the show's run.

[eli]

Mike Sheehan was the perfect choice to play the character of New York Detective Ritchie, a police source for Michael McDougal. Sheehan was the key detective in the Central Park Case of 1989 in which five African-American and Latino-American teens from Harlem were wrongfully accused of attempted murder and rape of a twenty-eight-year-old white woman jogging in Central Park. Despite the overturn of the Central Park Five's conviction in 2002, Sheehan remains confident that the teens committed the crime. In the film, Sheehan's character Ritchie, when pressed by MacDougal and Keaton's character Henry Hackett about whether the two teenage African-American boys are NYPD scapegoats for the killing of white businessmen in Brooklyn, gives the quote and headline for the newspaper: "They didn't do it!"

[mathew]

Martha's nickname is "Marty," which is uttered by Henry a few times.

[linda]

Michael Keaton and Catherine O'Hara previously appeared in Beetlejuice (1988).

[steve]

The New York Daily News was the first tabloid newspaper in the U.S. It was founded in 1919, and for decades was the largest circulation paper in the U.S. Its peak circulation was 2.4 million in 1947. In 2020, it was the 11th largest U.S. paper, with just over 100,000 average daily circulation.

[christina]

Paul Newman turned down the role of Bernie White.

[kylie]

After the scene where Henry and Alicia have their fight in the printing room, he tells her "Congratulations, you've officially become everything you used to hate." This is quite similar to the character on the series, Damages (2007), in which Glenn Close's character tries to manipulate and turn Rose Byrne's character on the show to be as ruthless and calculating. However, for this film, it means that Keaton and Close were very close friends and reporters, before she became who she is in the film, and universally hated by her colleagues.

[ruby]

Robert Duvall and William Prince appeared in Network (1976).

[linda]

Michael Keaton and Marisa Tomei appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).