- Was an uncredited script doctor on Bad Boys (1995).
- Was roommates with Jim Brown for about a year and a half before casting him in Fingers (1978).
- He cultivated a reputation as a 'ladies man', f.e. in a 1989 Spy magazine article, but his manipulative methods in trying to have sex with young actresses were far more sinister: Since 2017 Toback has been accused of sexual assault or sexual harassment by 395 women, according to 'The Guardian' [April 10, 2017].
- Wrote uncredited revisions to the script for Warren Beatty's political comedy Bulworth (1998).
- Wrote uncredited revisions to the script for Beyond the Sea (2004) at a fee of $150,000 per week, when Barry Levinson was attached to direct it.
- Graduated from Harvard University in 1966. In interviews, he always refers to the school as "Harvard College", as Harvard alumni who were undergraduates often do to distinguish themselves from alumni who received only their graduate degrees from Harvard.
- Was an uncredited script doctor on Crimson Tide (1995).
- Is still a compulsive gambler. In an interview from Interview magazine, Toback claims he took the most hits of LSD ever recorded.
- Toback wrote three movies with a subplot of point-shaving in collegiate basketball: The Gambler (1974), Black & White (1999) and Harvard Man (2001).
- Was a regular dancer on Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll show at the age of 14.
- Toback's first successful screenplay, The Gambler (1974) is substantially autobiographical. For a long time, he was a compulsive gambler, albeit from a well-heeled New York garment-district family
- Taught writing at the City College of New York (CCNY) in the early 1970s. The James Caan character in The Gambler (1974) was also a college teacher, a professor of English literature at New York University, though scenes from the movie were filmed at CCNY (now known as City University of New York).
- Retrospective at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2008.
- Was an uncredited script doctor on Disclosure (1994).
- Born on exactly the same day as Joe Eszterhas.
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