 When they were filming the bar scene where Chinaski meets Wanda, as  Mickey Rourke (qv) passed along the bar past  Charles Bukowski (qv), who was making a cameo appearance, the Buk  spat the beer in his mouth right into the beer bottle in his hand,  something that he had never done before and felt couldnt be done  but once in a lifetime. Barbet Schroeder (qv) was unimpressed and  used an alternate take of the shot.