Also Anderson's production company is called Ghoulardi, named after a character his father played on late night horror show circa 1960's Cleveland.
In Hard Eight, when John C. Reilly has the flashback about the matches just bursting into flames in his pocket, the old man and the young blonde girl in line behind him are PTA's late father Ernie and his ex-girlfriend respectively.
In Hard 8, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia the same strip of music is played in each one. It is a Michael Penn composition. It is most prevelant in Boogie Nights where roller girl is smashing the guy's face with her skates outside the limo.
PTA's original choice for Dirk Diggler was..........Leo DiCaprio!???!!!!?!?!?!?!? That would've sucked meat.
The paintings on the wall of Claudia's apartment are done by Melora Walters and Fiona Apple.
The record exec in BN and the program booth director in Magnolia are both played by Robert Downey Sr, who in my estimation is a flawless god.
The scene with Cosmo and the firecrackers is loosely based on a scene in Downey Sr's Putney Swope, a must see for anyone remotely interested in the wobbly scales of racial harmony.
When asked how he could write such realistic dialogue when his actors are doing coke, PTA replied: "Well, I think the fact that I used to do tonnes of cocaine each and every day helped out."
Apparently, and I swear on my mother, PTA plans to cast Adam Sandler as his next lead in a very dramatic role. Believe it, Tarantino has already cast him in a war epic he is starting.
Plus, anyone ever see the SNL skit with Ben Affleck that is a takeoff on MTV's Fanatic? It stars Molly Shannon as Anna Nicole Smith and she constantly says: "Get out of my hairspace!" Well, this gem was directed by PTA as well.
I so fucking hope he brings back Don Cheadle and Thomas "Todd Parker" Jane for his next fliccccccc.
You just know I got more....a boy can only sit in front of a komputer for so long.
Zachary.
KNICKS RULE ***********
"Let's all get homeless" - Jean-Michel Basquiat.
"Thought I was a donut; you tried to glaze me" - Rakim.