Being There/Trivia


 * Playing Against Type: Sellers had such range that saying he had one type isn't accurate, but audiences knew him best as Large Ham Funny Foreigner Inspector Clouseau by 1979 due to the role dominating his career comeback. This much more serene character and story certainly was a change of pace.
 * What Could Have Been
 * Solely because of the "I like to watch" scene, Laurence Olivier turned down the role of Ben Rand, the role which Melvyn Douglas won a Supporting Actor Oscar for.
 * At one point in the mid-'70s, it was announced that Gore Vidal was going to write the screenplay.
 * The filming script's ending was significantly different than what was ultimately conceived and used.  This ending was shot, and a publicity still from the press kit was drawn from it, but the actual scene didn't surface until the 2009 Blu-Ray disc.