Do the Wades have a framed photo of Leonard Cohen in their house?
Seriously. I just watched the movie last night (in a theatre, so I couldn't pause it or play back to check). At one point in the Wades' house I saw a framed, B&W, close-cropped photo of a man that looked like Leonard Cohen to me. Was it? Can you say "insignificant detail"? Yeah, I know, but it's the kind of little directorial in-joke that would make a good Trivia entry here on the IMDB. Of course we know that Altman liked Leonard Cohen from the soundtrack to the one Altman movie I like even more than TLG: McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
Come to mention it, I once heard an interview that told this story--only thing is, I can't remember whether the interviewee was Cohen or Altman. Anyway, the story was that Leonard Cohen went to see Brewster McCloud in a theater and was kind of blown away by it. He went home, and that night got a phone call. The voice on the other end said "Hello, I'm Robert Altman, you may have heard of me, I directed a film called Brewster McCloud...and I wanted to ask about using your music in my next picture." A dazed Cohen sort of weakly nodded and said "Why, yes..yes, you can use my music." Reportedly Altman wrote the McCabe screenplay with Cohen's first album playing on repeat the whole time.
Anyway--was that his picture in the Wades' house?