Ray D. Tutto?

The IMDb trivia section says that "Re di tutto" litterally means "King of Everything" (as the man in the moon calls himself). The fact that they didn't use his real name probably was for contract reasons, so I guess they just ended up making a joke out of it (everyone knew it was Robin Williams anyway!).

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Oogly Boogly!

is that why at the end during the list of special appearances, there is no mention of Robin Williams?

Terry Gilliam was blacklisted for what?

Two wrongs don't make a left hand turn.

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When the movie was released it was stated that Robin Williams was working under contract on another movie (which I believe was "Dead Poets Society" which came out the next year). It was an exclusive contract, so in order for him to appear in "AoBM" he had to do it under a pseudonym. He's done this a couple of times: I'm pretty sure when "Dead Again" was originally released he was left out of the credits then too.

"I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar!" Dr Zoidberg, Futurama

Very interesting... I must read that book. I always wondered why he was credited that also.

I know Kung Fu.

Bump because I had been wondering after watching it in the wake of last week, and this seems to be the most likely answer.

"I like to watch" Chauncey Gardiner, 'Being There'

From what I understand, the production wasn't troubled so much as Gilliam having the unfortunate luck to be making the film when new executives took over the studio. The previous head loved Gilliam's film(thus why it was greenlit and was in the process of being made) but the replacement had no such interest. In fact, iirc, the replacement made sure it was buried specifically because the film was his predecessor's pet project and there was a certain amount of animosity between the two(to put it lightly lol).

Had this situation not occurred, the film would have likely still had extra budget approved to finish it AND, of course, given a proper advertising campaign when it was actually finished. If that were the case, I wouldn't be surprised if the film had won an Oscar for something or other the year of its release.

**edit**Now....Gilliam's Don Quixote film....THAT was a disasterous production. lol

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