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Besides, sharing the story credit with McCay and getting a co-producer credit may just be bones they threw Sirota.

Doc Severenson got a writing credit on Mac David's song "Stop and Smell the Roses" because Doc suggested the TITLE. Credits in Hollywood are an equally weird game. When they were making The Buddy Holly Story with Gary Busey, they ran out of money. An acquaintance of mine, a trust fund baby and venture capitalist, provided just enough money for them to finish, but he finagled a "CoExecutive Producer" credit out of it. It took him forever to get his investment back though, because Hollywood has an accounting method called "rolling break even".

Anyway, I think McCay did a masterful job. The supporting roles were meaty enough that he got some heavy hitters interested even though the film was lower than average by Hollywood standards ($75 M). He probably got his people to call Meryl Streep's people and said "Do you want to play a conservative POTUS for 2 weeks?". She read the script and said HELL YES! Out of 138 minutes of the film, she was only on the screen for 35 minutes. Leo and Jennifer were on for 86 and 77 minutes respectively.