Gary Valentine's character is based on Hollywood producer and actor Gary Goetzman. Many of the incidents that happen in the film come directly from stories that Goetzman told to Paul Thomas Anderson. Like Valentine, Goetzman began as a child actor and appeared in Appuntamento sotto il letto (1968), a film about a family with 18 children (Christine Ebersole's character Lucy Doolittle is based on that film's star Lucille Ball). Goetzman also went on to open a waterbed company and a pinball arcade, and once delivered a waterbed to Jon Peters' home.
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