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De Niro honoring his $35,000 deal; Connie Foster as body double; Julia Phillips's book on Cybill Shepherd's lines; Dick Smith's fake Mohawk; gunshot makeup effects; Mohawk on display at the Museum of the Moving Image
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- After De Niro's profile rose the producers feared they could not afford him, but he honored his original $35,000 deal, which helped get the movie made.
- Jodie Foster's sister Connie, about 19, was her body double for scenes such as the last one.
- Producer Julia Phillips's book says they were frustrated that Shepherd could not remember her lines in the coffee-and-pie scene.
- The most shocking find is that De Niro's Mohawk was not real: Dick Smith made a bald cap with individually placed hairs so other scenes could be filmed after the Mohawk scenes.
- Haircuts during a shoot make producers' heads explode; productions ask to be told before an actor cuts their hair.
- Smith's gunshot effects are amazing, though a fishing-line pull on the neck wound is visible in slow motion; the blood running down the finger-gun hand is also smartly done.
- The Mohawk hairpiece is on display at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria.