Peri Gilpin is billed as assistant make-up and hair in the closing credits.
The film's poor box office performance was attributed by director Paul Bartel as being due to a lack of big star pulling names. According to an article published in the 22nd June 1989 issue of the 'Chicago Tribune', ''...Bartel got [US] $2.5 million from EMI to make the screwball comedy 'Not for Publication', starring Nancy Allen and David Naughton, which subsequently got caught in a management shuffle and died. 'Maybe it needed stronger names,' Bartel admits.''
Director Paul Bartel said that character of "Lois Thorndyke", who was played in the film by actress Nancy Allen, was based on heroines from Frank Capra pictures as well as the character "Lois Lane" from the ''Superman'' comic books.
For the "Mayor Claude Franklyn's" speech sequence, which was set in front of a housing project, the filmmakers were able to obtain footage of an actual political rally in Times Square. They later returned to the location to shoot additional set-ups for the scenes.
About at least eight cast and crew worked on writer-director Paul Bartel's previous comedy movie Eating Raoul (1982). These included producer Anne Kimmel, art director Robert Schulenberg and cast members Richard Paul and Darcy Pulliam.