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New York Stories (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• Jessie Keosian, who plays Aunt Ceil in the Woody Allen segment, "Oedipus Wrecks," was Allen's high school biology teacher. They had not met since high school until the audition for this film.
  
  
• Michael Powell helped with a major story problem in Woody Allen's segment.
  
  
• Nick Nolte's paintings are actually the work of artist Chuck Connelly.
  
  
• At 33 minutes, Francis Ford Coppola's segment is the shortest. Woody Allen's clocks in at 40 minutes, while Martin Scorsese's runs to 45 minutes.
  
  
• The performance piece that Steve Buscemi delivers in the Martin Scorsese segment was conceived and written by the actor himself.
  
  
• Feature film debut of Kirsten Dunst.
  
  
• According to a story related in the documentary "The Art of Failure", on artist Chuck Connelly, Martin Scorsese was very impressed with Connelly's work and was planning on taking some of it back to Los Angeles to try to line up buyers for his work. However, just before that, Connelly gave an interview to the New York Post ripping both the movie and Scorsese personally. Scorsese withdrew the offer, and Connelly soon fell into obscurity.
  
  

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