Sondra Locke, also a previous Academy Award nominee was cast by Eastwood against Kaufman's wishes, as the granddaughter of the old settler woman, Laura Lee.

The film portrays the first meeting between Shapiro and Kaufman at a nightclub, following Kaufman's set where he performed an imitation of President Jimmy Carter.

While still in high school, she was cast in a small role in the 1967 film version of Bel Kaufman's novel, Up the Down Staircase where she portrayed a student named Esmeralda.

featured a " Charlie Kaufman " character who is a heavily fictionalized version of the screenwriter and who has an " identical twin brother ", Donald, a sell-out screenwriter reflecting Kaufman's anxieties about Hollywood.

Many of Kaufman's real life friends and co-stars also appear in the film ( although not all as themselves ), including Zmuda, Shapiro, Chad Whitson, Margulies, David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, professional wrestler Jerry Lawler, Memphis wrestling TV personality Lance Russell, Budd Friedman, Jeff Conaway, Marilu Henner, Carol Kane, Judd Hirsch, Christopher Lloyd, and Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.

Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers also features scenes of the square.

Map showing Kaufman's proposed dismemberment of Germany ( and Austria ).

Significantly, these critics included Kaufman's own father Stanley, who was displeased that little of Andy's early life ( before show business ) and early career was portrayed.

The site of Lawrenceburg was settled in the early 1780s by a German immigrant named Jacob Kaufman and was first called Kaufman's ( or Coffman's ) Station.

In early 2001, Singer was planning to direct Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with Johnny Depp in the lead role, from Charlie Kaufman's script based on the Chuck Barris book of the same name.

The film makes a few changes to Kaufman's life story.

After its release, the film attracted some criticism over various events in Kaufman's life that were left out.

The song gave its name to a 1999 film based on Kaufman's life, Man on the Moon, and was used in the film's soundtrack.

Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

The fire proved to be the last straw in the relationship between Burrell and Parsons, who moved into a spare room in Kaufman's house.

Voight's film debut did not come until 1967, when he took a part in Phillip Kaufman's crimefighter spoof, Fearless Frank.

The river is lined with various pieces of sculpture, but John Kaufman's sculpture The Diver: Regeneration is sited in the Thames near Rainham.

He also has a memorable character part as a psychiatrist in Philip Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

In August 1986, Binoche began filming Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, portraying the young and innocent Tereza.

In 2009, Fonda returned to theater with her first Broadway performance since 1963, playing Katherine Brandt in Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations.

Kaufman insisted on filming with a meticulous attention to detail which caused disagreements with Eastwood, not to mention the attraction the two shared towards Locke and apparent jealousy on Kaufman's part in regards to their emerging relationship.

From then on the film was directed by Eastwood himself with Daley second in command, but with Kaufman's planning already in place, the team were able to finish making the film efficiently.

" Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit, You Can't Take It with You ( 1936 ), became a weekly situation comedy heard on Mutual ( 1944 ) with Everett Sloane and later on NBC ( 1951 ) with Walter Brennan.

Many people misunderstood Kaufman's intent, focusing on the character's foul language and prima donna antics while failing to appreciate the fact that Clifton was meant to be the comic antithesis of the typical lounge singer, a bland, genial entertainer designed to add a touch of class to a hotel and make guests feel welcome.

News programs interviewed Clifton as Kaufman's opening act, but the interviews invariably would turn ugly whenever Kaufman's name came up.

Tony Clifton still makes occasional appearances, most notably in the days leading up to May 16, 2004, the twentieth anniversary of Kaufman's death.

It was announced on May 16, 2008 that Comic Relief, in recognition of the 24th anniversary of Andy Kaufman's departure, would present " The Return of Tony Clifton ", with his Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra.

The tape of the incident was destroyed, although the moments leading up to it can be seen in the documentary Andy Kaufman's Really Big Show.

However, the plan was sidelined after the box office failure of Kaufman's first major motion picture Heartbeeps, in which he co-starred with Bernadette Peters as a robot who falls in love.

Kaufman's Tony Clifton character has influenced other " anti-comedy " acts, notably stand-up comedian Neil Hamburger, singer / comedian Unknown Hinson, and Canadian singer / comedian Corey Mystyshyn.

Bob Zmuda occasionally portrayed Kaufman's Tony Clifton character on stage and for television appearances.

The story traces Kaufman's steps from childhood through the comedy clubs, and television appearances that made him famous, including his memorable appearances on Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, Fridays, and his role as " Latka Gravas " on the Taxi sitcom, which was popular for viewers but disruptive for Kaufman's co-stars.

Andy Kaufman's ( Jim Carrey ) " foreign man " character appears in black-and-white, declaring that ( due to massive editing ), this is actually the end of the film, not the beginning.

Kaufman's fame increases with his Saturday Night Live appearances, but has problems with his newfound fame.

* Maricarmen, daughter of Ramón and granddaughter of Don Fernando, is the real-life daughter of Liliana Abud.

Both actors had real-life World War II combat experience: Marvin served with the US Marines in the Pacific, where he was wounded and received the Purple Heart ; meanwhile Mifune served in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force.

Intermingled with the plot, the title character Wishbone portrays Sherlock Holmes in a slightly modified adaptation of the original story to compare with the events of the " real-life " plot.

( 2002 )— Nicolas Cage portrays real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ( as well as his fictional brother, Donald ) as Kaufman struggles to adapt an esoteric book ( Susan Orlean ’ s real-life nonfiction work The Orchid Thief ) into an action-filled Hollywood screenplay.

Playing these characters against real-life figures of the years 1898 to 1907, the novel portrays the conjunction of government and mass media in the creation of modern-day America.

In the 1973 NBC-TV miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story, James Mason portrays a Pretorius-like figure named Dr. Polidori ( named for Lord Byron's real-life physician, John William Polidori, who was part of the 1816 gathering that produced Mary Shelley's novel & also the author of the story " The Vampyre ").

John Wayne's real-life son, Patrick Wayne, portrays James McCandles in the film, while Robert Mitchum's son, Christopher Mitchum plays Michael McCandles.