Steve Martin's screenplay is based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) by _Edmond Rostand_. C.D. Bales has the same initials as Cyrano. Bales is challenged to tell 20 nose jokes. After he tells 19, he asks "How many's that?", to which he is told "fourteen!". He goes on to tell another six, making 25 in total. At one point in the film a character is talking to Chris about Roxanne's surname being odd and says "It's Kazanski or something like that". Iceman Kazanski ...[Read Story ]