Author! Author! - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[victoria]

Ray Goulding: As Jackie Dicker. Goulding teamed with regular comic partner Bob Elliott for a 'Bob and Ray' cameo.

[ivan]

One of two 1982 movies made about playwrights, the other being Deathtrap (1982).

[miriam]

The 2nd February 1982 edition of show-business trade paper 'Daily Variety' reported that some delays in production were allegedly due to on-set creative differences between star 'Al Pacino' and producer Irwin Winkler where Pacino allegedly repetitively showed up late to the set.

[jamie]

This film's lead actor Al Pacino made his New York stage debut in 1968 in "The Indian Wants the Bronx" which was a play by this film's writer Israel Horovitz. Both won Obie Awards for it and had remained friends over the years and took the opportunity here to make a movie together.

[sophie]

The film was nominated for one Golden Globe Award in 1983 for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical for Al Pacino but lost out to Dustin Hoffman for Tootsie (1982). The pair later both appeared in Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy (1990).

[sylvia]

The entire film was shot in New York except for the sequence where Ivan tries to get Gloria back, shot over several days in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

[dustin]

According to 'The New York Times', "The impetus for Author! Author! (1982) came out of a discussion the writer [Israel Horovitz] had with his three children".

[sara]

The film's title is an ovation used in the theatre to call the playwright onstage after a well-received opening performance.

[mathew]

Bob Elliott: As Patrick Dickler. Elliott teamed with regular comic partner Ray Goulding for a 'Bob and Ray' cameo.

[tamara]

An exterior scene scheduled to be filmed outdoors at the Plaza Hotel fountain took three months to shoot. Initially, the scene had to be re-written anyway so the shoot there was canceled for that reason. The rain, more rain and a blizzard then prevented it being shot. By the time it was filmed, it was not longer autumn but winter, so that meant it had to be re-written as an interior with the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court merely becoming just a codicil to the sequence.

[kylie]

Both Al Pacino and Lori Tan Chinn were in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

[veronica]

Though a film about divorce, separation and mixed marriages, publicity for this picture stated that the film's director Arthur Hiller had been married to the same woman for thirty-four years.

[charlie]

One of two movies released in 1982 by the 20th Century Fox studio that were directed by Arthur Hiller. The other picture was Making Love (1982).