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** Top-billed, show-climaxing [[Michael Jackson]] (the concert's organizer ''and'' one of those careless flag users) lip-synched his way through his one solo number before the grand finale.

* [[Starflyer 59]]'s sophomore album, ''Gold''. Prior to recording, "internal tensions" reduced the band's members to Jason Martin, and then the pressure of recording the album all by himself pushed Jason to the verge of a nervous breakdown. As J. Edward Keyes' semi-official biography of the band describes it:

“I didn’t leave the Green Room for a month. Period. [...] I was having a semi-breakdown,” he admits. “It was a sick experience.” }}

* The creation of [[Public Image Ltd]]'s third LP, ''Flowers Of Romance'', was plagued with setbacks, most stemming from the departure of [[Only Sane Man]] bassist Jah Wobble over monetary disputes, all worsened by Keith Levene's heroin addiction and John Lydon's [[Creator Breakdown|increasing paranoia]]. [[Nightmare Fuel|It shows.]]

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* A 2011 commercial for the Citi card is told from the perspective of a makeup artist working on a film. This trope seems to be in play if the lead's cell phone going off, rain delay, and demand for a bigger explosion are any indication.

 

 

* The film within the film for ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]'' (''The Dueling Cavalier'') experienced severe troubled production due to the transition from silent to talkie pictures; the crew was too inexperienced to realize that every sound could be recorded and the actors were unable to adjust to the idea of speaking into microphones, leading the film to be laughed off by audiences at its first screening. This lead to the film being retooled into a campy musical called ''The Dancing Cavalier'' and a complete dub of the female lead's voice.

* At one point in ''[[Walk Hard]]'', Dewey Cox (under the influence of a number of drugs) attempts to create his bizarre masterpiece "Black Sheep" (a clear parody of the above mentioned Brian Wilson song "Smile"), which leads to [[The Fellowship Has Ended|the band and his wife to break up with him]] and [[Creator Breakdown|his inevitable drug fueled rampage through the city in nothing but his underwear]].

* ''[[Shadow of the Vampire]]'' fictionalizes the production of ''[[Nosferatu]]'' highlighting the disagreements between stars and producers, director and crew, and an actual vampire.

* ''Irreconcilable Differences'' is mainly about young [[Drew Barrymore]] divorcing her parents, but the best parts involve Ryan O'Neal's hilariously overblown ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' clone spinning out of control.