From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 1, 1986:

• After having depicted the grim fate of a town at the end of the world in “The Day After,” the city of Lawrence now had a chance to present a lighter side to movie audiences. Kansas University graduate Doug Curtis was planning to return to town this summer to film “Nice Girls Don’t Explode” which he described as a “very off-beat, quirky comedy.” Curtis and his production coordinator John Wells were in Lawrence over the weekend, scouting for locations, hiring a production crew, and starting the local casting process.
• Police officials were assuring Lawrence residents that in spite of a recent violent death in Centennial Park and another in February in Burcham Park, disturbances in parks were not a major problem for the city. Pointing out that there were over 175 miles of streets in Lawrence and that officers must patrol them as much as possible, assistant police chief Ron Olin said “It is quite normal for us not to patrol parks for a series of hours. We patrol them as often as we can.”