In one scene, a character is seen reading the book "In Praise of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays" (1976) by Anaïs Nin. She was a great admirer of the work of writer-director Henry Jaglom and dedicated part of this book to praising his film A Safe Place (1971).
The movie is ''set mostly within a 10-block radius of the Museum of Natural History'' according to film critic Janet Maslin in her review for the film published in 'The New York Times' on 8th December 1983.
An unrelated book with the same title called ''Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? - American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century'' by Mary Drake McFeely was published in the year 2001.
Orson Welles: Uncredited (in the cast list), as a magician. Welles is not credited in the cast list for the role but does receive billing which states ''special thanks to Orson Welles, the magician''.