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The MacBook 2016 has the THUNDERBOLT 2 port; all that really would be needed should one want to be "that person" connecting every device in the known universe would be the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter. I've got one (bought a mid-range brand cuz I know someone in my house will lose it) MOST of these adapters have a "pass thru" for CHARGING so you CAN charge the laptop and your phone, or access a USB key, etc. USB to Ethernet is possible as well, for those like me who detest crawling at a glacial pace on wireless. Cedric turned me on to the item #202023 from cablematters.com (purchased it at amazon.com) I'm surprised they included an audio port…Bluetooth audio rocks my world and 99% of the time I completely forget I have earbuds in and I can promise you I would yank that off the desk in a heartbeat.
AT 2 pounds with a meager 12 inch display I wouldn't want it as my primary workstation without a larger display. I tinkered with one at the store; the keyboard is tight, as to be expected in a small model. The keys did feel WAY more responsive (probably due to their new design) As to the camera this isn't designed to shoot Ken Burns epic documentaries. (But I CAN highly recommend the GoPro Hero4 for epic adventures, and I'm just now experimenting with the GoPro session)
The force touch track pad was a nightmare for me when I had the Bluetooth magic trackpad for my iMac. Maybe I just never got the hang of it…same with the one on this model. Maybe with a bit of practice it would become more intuitive. Those with iPhone 6S should ease into it nicely.


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Seven more people closely involved in the Parmalat scandal were arrested in Italy yesterday and an eighth, the company's representative in Venezuela, was being sought. Those arrested included the chairman and a partner in Grant Thornton Spa, one of Parmalat's auditors, whom investigating magistrates have implicated in the hiding of the group's multi-billion euro debts. The chairman of the Italian arm of the international auditor, Lorenzo Penca, later announced his resignation.
Those arrested yesterday include Fausto Tonna, formerly the group's director general, and Luciano Del Soldato, a former group finance director. The disgraced founder and former president of the group, Calisto Tanzi, under interrogation in San Vittore prison, Milan, named the two as the men who had contrived the elaborate schemes involving offshore derivatives transactions by which Parmalat attempted to hide losses estimated at €10bn to €13bn (£7bn to £9bn).
At the time of its collapse, Parmalat had more than 200 offshore subsidiaries. The Italian food group was the eighth biggest company in Italy and one of its few global brands.
Yesterday inspectors from the US Security and Exchange Commission arrived in Parma for talks with magistrates investigating the collapse. The SEC, which has described the group's failure as "one of the largest and most brazen financial frauds in history," aims to obtain repayment with interest of money that should have gone to US investors, who hold about $1.5 billion (£800m) in Parmalat bonds and shares.
Mr Tanzi, the man at the centre of the scandal who built his corporate empire from humble beginnings 40 years ago, was said by his lawyer yesterday to be "a broken man". On Tuesday Milanese magistrates decided that he must remain in prison rather than being confined to house arrest because he was "a danger to society".
Mr Tanzi's lawyer, Fabio Belloni, speaking to reporters as he arrived at a Milan court to meet prosecutors, said none of the €500 million that Mr Tanzi has admitted embezzling from Parmalat was for his personal use.
"It was an attempt to keep going forward, to close certain deals," he said. "That's the argument. It wasn't that he put money in his pocket. The little treasures were never there."
Mr Belloni sought to portray his client as an archetypal Italian family businessman who got horribly out of his depth. "He is a broken man, and worried," he said. "He is convinced that Parmalat should and must be saved. He is anxious about the firm's 35,000 employees."
The Parmalat scandal has reopened bitter divisions between Italy's Finance Minister, Giulio Tremonti, and the Governor of the Bank of Italy, Antonio Fazio. Mr Tremonti has asserted that the Bank had been informed by his ministry of Parmalat's problems well in advance and that they discussed the case together on 8 July - a full five months before the collapse. Mr Fazio flatly denied it. "No warning signals on the Parmalat situation were given to the Bank of Italy by the ministry," he said.
Grant Thornton seeks to avoid Andersen-style melt down
The fallout from the Parmalat scandal for Grant Thornton grew more serious yesterday after two of its senior executives in Italy were arrested and accused of being complicit in the fraud.
Lorenzo Penca, the chairman of the auditor's Italian business, Grant Thornton SpA, and partner Maurizio Bianchi were detained. The firm is auditor to a number of Parmalat subsidiaries that were at the centre of a fraud that was apparently carried out using crudely faked documents.
A Milan judge accused Lorenzo Penca, and partner Maurizio Bianchi of falsely certifying Parmalat's balance sheets and of suggesting ways for the company to commit fraud. Grant Thornton has maintained that it was one of the "victims" of Parmalat's fraud. Yesterday, the firm did not repeat its protestations of innocence but merely said that "the partners of Grant Thornton SpA are moving to address the issues".
Judge Guido Salvini also accused Bianchi and Penca of falsely certifying Parmalat's balance sheets and of having suggested the "fictitious operations necessary to achieve the fraudulent aims of the group". Mr Salvini said the auditors omitted revealing the "irregular situation" of two Parmalat offshore companies, Curcastle and Zilpa. And he said the two also hatched the idea to create the Cayman Islands-based Bonlat subsidiary at the centre of Parmalat's bankruptcy. Mr Penca resigned yesterday.
Grant Thornton has rejected any parallel with Arthur Andersen, the auditor forced to dissolve itself because of its work for Enron, the disgraced former US energy giant.
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(Dec. 17, 2009) It was reported on December 7, 2009, that as a "fishing entity" using the name "Chinese Taipei," Taiwan has joined the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation. According to the Deputy Director-General of the Taiwan Council of Agriculture's Fisheries Agency, "SPRFMO is the first non-tuna management organization Taiwan has entered." He pointed out that "SPRFMO's primary mission is to manage types of fish which migrate across the 200-mile economic territorial water limits of different nations in the South Pacific, such as Japanese jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus) and squid." (Taiwan Joins South Pacific Fisheries Pact, TAIWAN TODAY, Dec. 8, 2009, available at http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xitem=84442&CtNode=415.)
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The King of Comedy (1983 film)
|The King of Comedy
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|Directed by
|Martin Scorsese
|Produced by
|Arnon Milchan
|Written by
|Paul D. Zimmerman
|Fred Schuler
|Edited by
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|Distributed by
|20th Century Fox
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|United States
|$19 million[1]
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|$2.5 million[2]
The King of Comedy is a 1983 American satirical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard.[3] Written by Paul D. Zimmerman, the film focuses on themes including celebrity worship and American media culture. 20th Century Fox released the film on February 18, 1983, in the United States,[4] though the film was released two months earlier in Iceland.[5] The film began shooting in New York on June 1, 1981, to avoid clashing with a forthcoming writers' strike,[6] and opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1983.[7][8]
- 1 Plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Production
- 4 Distribution
- 5 Stage musical
- 6 Reception
- 7 Legacy
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), a stage-door autograph hound, is an aspiring, mentally-deranged stand-up comedian unsuccessfully trying to launch his career. After meeting Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis), a successful comedian and talk show host, Rupert believes his "big break" has finally come. He attempts to book a spot on the show but is continually rebuffed by Langford's staff and finally by Langford himself. Along the way, Rupert indulges in elaborate and obsessive fantasies in which he and Langford are colleagues and friends. Hoping to impress, Rupert invites a date, Rita, to accompany him when he decides to show up uninvited at Langford's country home. When Langford returns to his house from a golfing round, he finds Rupert and Rita settling in. Angered, he launches into a furious tirade against Rupert, telling him that his act is mediocre and that he's a lunatic who'll never amount to anything. While Jerry yells at him, Rupert continues trying to stay on his good graces, until an embarrassed Rita gets Rupert to finally leave.
When the straight approach does not work, Rupert hatches a kidnapping plot with the help of Masha (Sandra Bernhard), a fellow stalker similarly obsessed with Langford. As ransom, Rupert demands that he be given the opening spot on that evening's Jerry Langford Show (guest hosted by Tony Randall), and that the show be broadcast in normal fashion. The network brass, lawyers, and the FBI agree to his demands, with the understanding that Langford will be released once the show airs. Between the taping of the show and the broadcast, Masha has her "dream date" with Langford, who is duct-taped to a chair in her parents' Manhattan townhouse. Jerry convinces her to untie him and he manages to escape.
Rupert's stand-up routine is well received by the audience. In his act, he describes his troubled life (from growing up in a poor neighborhood with neglectful, alcoholic parents; to getting regularly bullied and beaten up during his adolescence) while simultaneously laughing at his circumstances. Rupert closes by confessing to the studio audience that he kidnapped Jerry Langford in order to break into show business. The audience laughs, believing it to be part of his act. Rupert responds by saying, "Tomorrow you'll know I wasn't kidding and you'll all think I'm crazy. But I figure it this way: better to be king for a night, than a schmuck for a lifetime."
The movie closes with a news report of Rupert's release from prison, set to a montage of storefronts stocking his "long awaited" autobiography, King For a Night. The report informs that Rupert still considers Jerry Langford his mentor and friend and that he and his agent are currently weighing several "attractive offers", including comedy tours and a film adaptation of his memoirs. The final scene shows Rupert taking the stage for an apparent TV special with a live audience and an announcer enthusiastically introducing and praising him, leaving the viewer to decide whether it is reality or Rupert's fantasy.
- Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin
- Jerry Lewis as Jerry Langford
- Tony Randall as himself
- Diahnne Abbott as Rita Keane
- Sandra Bernhard as Masha
- Shelley Hack as Cathy Long
- Ed Herlihy as himself
- Frederick de Cordova as Bert Thomas
- Margo Winkler as the receptionist
- Kim Chan as Jonno
- Scorsese has a cameo as "Man in Van." He later appears as The Jerry Langford Show director, assuring Tony Randall that his cue cards are funny.
- Scorsese's mother Catherine Scorsese plays Pupkin's (unseen) mother.[9]
- Real-life film and television producers Edgar Scherick and Frederick de Cordova have cameo roles as a network president and producer of the Langford show, respectively.
- A gang of punks is seen on a street corner in the film. Billed in the credits as "Street Scum," they are played by Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, and Paul Simonon of The Clash, actress-singer Ellen Foley ("Paradise by the Dashboard Light", Night Court), Don Letts, Kosmo Vinyl, and singer Pearl Harbour.
- Tony Randall as emergency guest host of The Jerry Langford Show.
- Victor Borge and Dr. Joyce Brothers as guests on The Jerry Langford Show.
- Lou Brown and Ed Herlihy as band leader and announcer, respectively, of The Jerry Langford Show.
- Scorsese's father, Charles Scorsese, plays one of the men at the bar where Pupkin is watching his own performance on TV.
- Scorsese's friend, Mardik Martin, plays a second man at the bar.
- Scorsese's daughter, Cathy Scorsese, plays Dolores.
- Scorsese's lawyer at the time, Jay Julien, plays Jerry Langford's lawyer.
After Raging Bull was completed, Scorsese was keen to do a pet project of his, The Last Temptation of Christ, and wanted De Niro to play Jesus Christ. De Niro was not interested and preferred their next collaboration to be a comedy. He had purchased the rights of a script by film critic Paul D. Zimmerman.[10] Michael Cimino was first proposed as director but eventually withdrew from the project because of the extended production of Heaven's Gate.[11] Scorsese pondered whether he could face shooting another film, particularly with a looming strike by the Writers Guild of America. Producer Arnon Milchan knew he could do the project away from Hollywood interference by filming entirely on location in New York and deliver it on time with the involvement of a smaller film company.[10]
In the biography/overview of his work, Scorsese on Scorsese, the director had high praise for Jerry Lewis, stating that during their first conversation before shooting, Lewis was extremely professional and assured him before shooting that there would be no ego clashes or difficulties. Scorsese said he felt Lewis' performance in the film was vastly underrated and deserved more acclaim.[12]
After such a strong critical appreciation for the way in which Scorsese had shot Raging Bull, the director felt that The King of Comedy needed more of a raw cinematic style, one of which would take its cues from early silent cinema, using more static camera shots, and fewer dramatic close-ups. Scorsese has noted that Edwin S. Porter's 1903 film, Life of an American Fireman, had greatly influenced The King of Comedy's visual style.[13]
De Niro prepared for Rupert Pupkin's role by developing a "role reversal" technique, consisting in chasing down his own autograph-hunters, stalking them and asking them lots of questions. As Scorsese remembered, he even agreed to meet and talk with one of his longtime stalkers:
The guy was waiting for him with his wife, a shy suburban woman who was rather embarrassed by the situation. He wanted to take him to dinner at their house, a two-hour drive from New York. After he had persuaded him to stay in Manhattan, [De Niro] asked him, 'Why are you stalking me? What do you want?' He replied, 'To have dinner with you, have a drink, chat. My mom asked me to say hi.'[14]
De Niro also spent months watching stand-up comedians at work to get the rhythm and timing of their performances right. Fully in phase with his character, he went as far as declining an invitation to dinner from Lewis because "he was supposed to be at his throat and ready to kill him for [his] chance."[15]
According to an interview with Lewis in the February 7, 1983, edition of People magazine, he claimed that Scorsese and De Niro employed method acting tricks, including making a slew of anti-Semitic epithets during the filming in order to "pump up Lewis's anger."[16] Lewis described making the film as a pleasurable experience and noted that he got along well with both Scorsese and De Niro. Lewis said he was invited to collaborate on certain aspects of the script dealing with celebrity life. He suggested an ending in which Rupert Pupkin kills Jerry, but was turned down. As a result, Lewis thought that the film, while good, did not have a "finish."[17] In an interview for the DVD, Scorsese stated that Jerry Lewis suggested that the brief scene where Jerry Langford is accosted by an old lady for autographs, who screams, "You should only get cancer," when Lewis politely rebuffs her, was based on a real-life incident that happened to Lewis. Scorsese said Lewis directed the actress playing the old lady to get the timing right.
At the time he wrote his script, Paul D. Zimmerman was inspired by a David Susskind show on autograph hunters and an Esquire article on a fanatical Johnny Carson follower.[18] Scorsese first became aware of Zimmerman's script after it was brought to him by Robert De Niro in 1974, but declined the project citing that he felt no personal connection with it.[19] Michael Cimino was attached to direct, however Cimino's involvement with the script fell through, when he left the project to instead direct Heaven's Gate. Prompted by the alienation he felt from his growing celebrity status,[20] and De Niro's claims that the film could be made "real fast", and that it would be a "New York movie"[21] Scorsese's interest in the project was rekindled.
Scorsese's first choice for talk show host Jerry Langford was Johnny Carson. Carson refused the role, claiming "you know that one take is enough for me."[22] The entire Rat Pack was also considered—specifically Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin—before a decision was made to select Martin's old partner, Jerry Lewis.[22][23]
Principal photography[edit]
Arnon Milchan suggested shooting begin a month earlier than scheduled in order to avoid possible work stoppage from the DGA strike. Furthermore, Scorsese was not in good health. The film was shot over a twenty-week period, with Scorsese shooting from 4pm to 7pm every day.[24]
Scorsese's health[edit]
Scorsese had suffered from poor health both before and during the film's production. He had previously worked on three films close together and not long after, found himself hospitalised due to exhaustion and pneumonia. He had not recovered when shooting began.[25] The intensive filming schedule meant Scorsese could spend the remainder of his time recuperating.[24]
Robbie Robertson produced the music for the film's soundtrack and contributed his first original work after leaving The Band entitled "Between Trains".[26] This song, a tribute to a member of the production staff who had suddenly died, is on the soundtrack album but not in the movie itself. The King of Comedy soundtrack is a mix of popular music and thematic orchestral scoring by composer Bob James.[27] The soundtrack includes songs from artist such as B.B. King, Van Morrison and Ray Charles. This kind of hybridization of pop and scored music would later be used in Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed.
Soundtrack album[edit]
A soundtrack album was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1983. A CD version with identical tracks was released by Wounded Bird Records in 2016.
1. The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang (3:51)
2. B.B. King - 'Taint Nobody's Bizness (If I Do) (3:33)
3. Talking Heads - Swamp (5:13)
4. Bob James - King Of Comedy (4:23)
5. Rickie Lee Jones - Rainbow Sleeve (3:39)
6. Robbie Robertson - Between Trains (3:25)
7. Ric Ocasek - Steal The Night (3:55)
8. Ray Charles - Come Rain Or Come Shine (3:40)
9. David Sanborn - The Finer Things (4:27)
10. Van Morrison - Wonderful Remark (3:57)
The King of Comedy was released on DVD on December 12, 2002 (Region 1), and April 19, 2004 (Region 2).
A digital restoration of the movie was presented on April 27, 2013, as the closing film of De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival. This latest version was produced from the film's original camera negatives and features a restored soundtrack.[28] While the restored film was scheduled to be released onto Blu-ray on October 29, 2013,[29] the 30th Anniversary home media release was ultimately delayed for a release date of March 25, 2014.[30]
Stage musical[edit]
The film will be made into a stage musical for Broadway and Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) will write the music and lyrics and the book is by Chris D'Arienzo (Rock of Ages).
Critical reception[edit]
Although the film was well received by critics, it bombed at the box office. De Niro said that the film "...maybe wasn't so well received because it gave off an aura of something that people didn't want to look at or know."[31]
Timeout called it "Creepiest movie of the year in every sense, and one of the best".[32] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, writing, "The King of Comedy is one of the most arid, painful, wounded movies I've ever seen. It's hard to believe Scorsese made it..." He also wrote, "Scorsese doesn't want laughs in this movie, and he also doesn't want release. The whole movie is about the inability of the characters to get any kind of a positive response to their bids for recognition." He concluded the film, "is not, you may already have guessed, a fun movie. It is also not a bad movie. It is frustrating to watch, unpleasant to remember, and, in its own way, quite effective."[33] Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader gave the film a favorable review, calling the film, "clearly an extension of Taxi Driver" and the "uncenteredness of the film is irritating, though it's irritating in an ambitious, risk-taking way".[34] Joyce Millman of Salon called it, "Martin Scorsese's second least popular movie, after The Last Temptation of Christ. Which is a shame, because it's Scorsese's second greatest film, after Taxi Driver.[35] However, not all critics gave the film positive reviews. Adam Smith of Empire Magazine called it "Neither funny enough to be an effective black comedy nor scary enough to capitalise on its thriller/horror elements".[36]
David Ehrenstein, author of The Scorsese Picture, noted the mixed response of the film in his 1983 review. He stated that The King of Comedy "cuts too close to the bone for either large-scale mass audience approval or unanimous mainstream critical acclaim". He noted how far apart the film stood to other films made in the early years of Reagan's America which the film presented a very critical portrayal of (although the script was written well before Reagan's election, and shooting began less than five months after Reagan took office). "At a time when the film world piles on simple-minded sentiment in thick gooey gobs, a picture like The King of Comedy appears a frontal assault. The triumph of the 'little guy' is revealed to be nothing more than lumpen neo-Fascist blood lust."[37]
Pauline Kael of The New Yorker was one of the critics who disliked the film, describing the character of Rupert Pupkin as "Jake LaMotta without fists". She went on to write that "De Niro in disguise denies his characters a soul. De Niro's 'bravura' acting in Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and New York, New York collapsed into 'anti-acting' after he started turning himself into repugnant flesh eggies of soulless characters.....Pupkin is a nothing." Scorsese says that "people were confused with King of Comedy and saw Bob as some sort of mannequin". Scorsese has called De Niro's role as Rupert Pupkin his favorite of all their collaborations.[38]
Sandra Bernhard, who plays Masha in the film, indicated in a 2013 interview that Jack Black was interested in a remake. However, she dismissed the idea, saying it was "too late" to do it.[39] Actor Steve Carell and director Bennett Miller, both black comedy fans, cited The King of Comedy as a personal favorite[40] and inspiration to shape the sociopath character of John E. du Pont in Foxcatcher.[41]
The confrontation scene at Jerry's house between Pupkin and Langford was parodied on Saturday Night Live soon after the film's release, when Lewis hosted the show. The sketch, featuring Tim Kazurinsky and Mary Gross, features Lewis visiting a studio in Paris, France, and meeting a voice actor who performs the French-language dubs for Lewis' characters in all his movies. However, Jerry is dismayed when he learns that the actor reads it all in the "nine-year-old boy" style that was part of Lewis' comedy routines during his days with Dean Martin. The actor tries to kill himself out of shame when Lewis rebukes him, but Lewis stops it.
Debate about ending[edit]
Film scholar David Bordwell, writing in Film Viewer's Guide, mentioned the (un)reality of the ending as a topic for debate, as there is no definitive answer as to whether the ending is reality or fantasy.[42] By the end of the film the line between fantasy and reality is blurred for the audience as well as the character. Scorsese doesn't offer a clear answer but forces the audience to make their own minds up from how they individually read the film.
In his commentary on The Criterion Collection DVD of Black Narcissus, Scorsese stated that Michael Powell's films influenced The King of Comedy in its conception of fantasy. Scorsese said that Powell always treated fantasy as no different than reality, and so made fantasy sequences as realistic as possible. Scorsese suggests that Rupert Pupkin's character fails to differentiate between his fantasies and reality in much the same way. Scorsese sought to achieve the same with the film so that, in his words, the "fantasy is more real than reality".
Taxi Driver connection[edit]
Rupert Pupkin has been compared to Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver: both characters have serious issues with reality testing, that is drawing the line between outer objective and inner subjective reality.[43] In her review, entertainment columnist Marilyn Beck approved Johnny Carson's refusal to play in The King of Comedy, who was supposedly fearing the film could inspire psychopaths like John Hinckley, calling it even more dangerous than Taxi Driver because of its lack of blood and the fact that viewers could easily identify with De Niro.[44] In a documentary featured in the first DVD release of the film, Scorsese himself acknowledged the connection between the two characters: "Taxi Driver. Travis. Rupert. The isolated person. Is Rupert more violent than Travis? Maybe."[9]
Critic's lists[edit]
- American Film's list of the Best Films of the 1980s – #10[45]
- Halliwell's Top 1000 – #180[46]
- 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- Jonathan Rosenbaum: 1000 Essential Films[47]
- The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made[48]
- Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time – #87[49]
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- Cecil B. Demented—a 2000 film directed by John Waters with a similar plot
- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p260
- ^ The King of Comedy (1983) - Box Office Mojo
- ^ The Jerry Lewis Films by James L. Neibaur and Ted Okuda. Jefferson, SC: McFarland, 1994, ISBN 0-89950-961-4.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (February 18, 1983). "Scorsese's 'King Of Comedy'". The New York Times.
- ^ "Morgunblaðið, 18.12.1982". Timarit.is. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
- ^ Thompson, David and Christie, Ian. Scorsese on Scorsese, p.87.
- ^ "Jerry Lewis Is The King At Cannes Film Festival". The New York Times. May 9, 1983.
- ^ "Latest Movie Features | Best & Worst Lists | Spoilers - Empire". gb: Empireonline.com. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
- ^ a b Noted by Scorsese in The King of Comedy DVD "making of" feature.
- ^ a b Baxter, John De Niro A Biography pp. 219/20.
- ^ Grist, Leighton (2013). The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99: Authorship and Context II. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-403-92035-5.
- ^ Thompson, ed. by David Thompson (1991). Scorsese on Scorsese (Repr. ed.). London u.a.: Faber and Faber. p. 90. ISBN 0-571-15243-0.
- ^ Thompson, ed. by David Thompson (1991). Scorsese on Scorsese (Repr. ed.). London u.a.: Faber and Faber. p. 88. ISBN 0-571-15243-0.
- ^ Levy, Shawn (2014). De Niro: A Life. New York: Crown Archetype. ISBN 978-0-307-71678-1.
- ^ Dougan, Andy (2011). Untouchable: Robert De Niro: Unauthorised. London: Random House. ISBN 0-7535-0407-3.
- ^ People, February 7, 1983, page 44.
- ^ Bogdanovich, Peter. Who The Hell's In It, p.196.
- ^ Bailey, Jason (June 23, 2016). "How Scorsese's 'King of Comedy' Influenced a Generation of Film, Television, and Stand-Up". Flavorwire. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
- ^ LoBrutto, Vincent (2008). Martin Scorsese: A Biography. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-98705-3.
- ^ Rausch, Andrew J. (2010). The films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7414-5.
- ^ UK, Leighton Grist, University of Winchester, (2013). The films of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99 : authorship and context II (1. publ. ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-403-92035-5.
- ^ a b Christie and Thompson, Ian and David. Scorsese on Scorsese, p.89.
- ^ Schoell, William. Martini Man: The Life of Dean Martin. Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing 1999. ISBN 0-87833-231-6.
- ^ a b Vincent LoBrutto (2008). Martin Scorsese: A Biography. USA: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 256.
- ^ Andrew J. Rausch (2010). The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. USA: Scarecrow Press. p. 98.
- ^ Biography | Robbie Robertson
- ^ Ashby, Arved (2013). Popular Music and the New Auteur: Visionary Filmmakers after MTV. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-19-982733-6.
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave (28 March 2013). "A Restored 'King of Comedy' Will Close Tribeca Film Festival". The New York Times. Arts Beat (blog). Retrieved 28 March 2013.
- ^ "Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy Heading to Blu-ray". Blu-ray.com. April 25, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
- ^ "The King of Comedy 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition". Blu-ray.com. February 5, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ^ Friedman Lawrence S. The Films of Martin Scorsese 1997, p.133.
- ^ The King of Comedy Review. Movie Reviews - Film - Time Out London[dead link]
- ^ "The King of Comedy". rogerebert.suntimes.com. May 15, 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
- ^ "The King of Comedy". Chicago Reader. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
- ^ Millman, Joyce (21 March 1997). "The King of Comedy". Salon. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- ^ Empire's The King of Comedy Movie Review
- ^ "The King of Comedy". Ehrensteinland.com. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
- ^ Friedman Lawrence S. The Films of Martin Scorsese 1997, p.127.
- ^ Frank DiGiacomo (April 19, 2013). "Sandra Bernhard Says 'It's Too Late' To Remake 'The King of Comedy'". Movieline. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ Toma Clarac (January 21, 2015). "Steve Carell : 52 ans. Toujours plus haut (French)". GQ. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ Tim Robey (January 9, 2015). "Bennett Miller interview: 'Foxcatcher is a film about fathers'". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ Bordwell (2003). The McGraw-Hill film viewers guide. Boston: McGraw-Hill. p. 30.
- ^ Wernblad, Annette (2011). The Passion of Martin Scorsese: A Critical Study of the Films. Jefferson, USA: McFarland & Company. p. 92. ISBN 0786449462.
- ^ Beck, Marilyn (February 2, 1983). "The King of Comedy". New York Daily News.
- ^ McGilligan, Patrick; Rowland, Mark. "The American Film Critics Poll: The 80s". American Film (November 1989).
- ^ Halliwells Top 1000. Harper Collins Entertainmentlocation=USA. 2005.
- ^ "Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films". Mubi.
- ^ "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made". New York Times. April 29, 2003.
- ^ "The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time". Empire Online.
- Baxter, John (2006). De Niro: A Biography.
- Christie and Thompson, Ian and David (2004). Scorsese on Scorsese.
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From this afternoon's Cavuto. Marvin Stewart's already filed police complaints alleging harassment and stolen property after some of the bien pensants in the audience jumped onstage and grabbed him. He claims a hate crime was committed based on the fact that some of them were yelling "house nigger" during his speech. How the D.A. intends to prove that the people who assaulted him were the same people who did the yelling is beyond me.
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BES solution for single person
Hi folks,
for some of you this may be stupid but I really need some help here.
I am using my BB with BIS on Vodafone network. I have recently started using calendar a lot as my schedule is busy (college, work, hobbies etc) As a BIS user, there is no option of syncing my BB and MacBook wirelessly but with some help of USB and Desktop Manager. Of course, you can use google sync or other methods. I've tried it, but stopped after 2 days of using it. It kept messing with either iCal or BB cal and now wit OS X Lion you can't even sync Address Book. So I put my hands off it.
Anyway, back to my issue. I am simply looking for some way to use my BB in full and I am afraid it's not possible unless you have BES.
I don't have exchange server, i don't even use a hosted one and BES license isn't really a cheap thing. I heard about BES express though which is for free. But hello, my IT knowledge isn't that good to run exchange server and just install BES express on it. I don't even want it for 50 people, I want it only for myself,one user, to be able to sync (two way) my iCal (multiple calendars), Address Book and notes with my BB over the air like BES does. I would simple make an exchange account in both ical and address book and then sync it with bb. That would do it, wouldn't it?
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I sync my address book with lion just fine.
As for calendars, the only option for wireless syncing seems to be google. It works perfectly fine for me on my bb and with iCal on lion. Though I really dont use it anymore, getting rid of google.
As for setting up bes, you'll also need to setup exchange and with that active directory. Or lotus domino.
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I am also facing a similar problem. I have the latest OS on my Mac, the latest Blackberry Desktop software and latest OS on my Bold 9780.
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Three characters from The Wizard of Oz: Jack Pumpkinhead, the Tin Man, and the Guardian of the Gates. The marionettes were made by American puppeteer Burr Tillstrom in the 1940s.
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Aggreko, along with its joint-venture partner Shanduka Group, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Eskom, the South African power utility, and agreed PPA terms with Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), the Mozambique power utility, to provide a 107 MW power plant that will supply baseload and peak power to both companies. Both PPAs are subject to the parties fulfilling a number of conditions precedent before becoming effective.
The power plant will be situated on the Mozambique / South African border at Ressano Garcia, 90 kilometres north-west of Maputo. It will be powered by natural gas from the Temane gas fields in Mozambique and its output will be injected into the national grid of Mozambique on site at Ressano Garcia. The output of the plant will be split between the two companies, with EDM utilising 15 MW and Eskom 92 MW.
This is thought to be the first project by a private company to supply power cross-border to two utilities in Southern Africa, and underlines the potential benefits that can accrue to countries sharing resources. Both countries will get much needed additional power, and the project also underlines the importance of Mozambique as an energy hub for the entire Southern African region.
It is planned that the plant will start operations early in the third quarter of 2012, and supply power until July 2014. Aggreko is responsible for building gas interconnections, a major substation and 1.5 kilometres of 275 kV transmission line working alongside the Matola Gas Company SA and Gigawatt Mozambique SA. The total value of the project is likely to be in the region of $250 million over two years, including fuel costs.
Rupert Soames, Chief Executive of Aggreko said, "This is a very important project for Aggreko, and for Southern Africa, as it underlines the benefits of countries working together for the common good. We hope it will be a pathfinder for other countries seeking to make the most of their resources to optimise the supply of power across the region."
"The partnership with Aggreko creates an opportunity for Shanduka to contribute to the Southern Africa Power Pool. This unique project will contribute to the provision of a reliable power supply and support South Africa in meeting its energy needs" said Phuti Mahanyele, CEO, Shanduka Group.
Speaking for EDM, CEO, Augusto Sousa Fernando added, "EDM, in its role as the national power utility and system operator in Mozambique, welcomes the Aggreko interim power plant in Ressano Garcia at Maputo Province and will provide the support required to make it a reality and to ensure that the energy to be generated by the project contributes to the construction of our future in Mozambique and supports the socio-economic development in the SADC region as well".
Hilary Joffe, Eskom spokesperson said, "We are very supportive of this innovative cross-border project, and we look forward to the Ressano Garcia Plant coming on line early in the third quarter."
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Editor's Notes
Aggreko plc is the world leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control solutions. Aggreko employs over 4,500 people operating from 165 locations. In 2011 we served customers in about 100 countries, and had revenues of approximately GBP 1.4bn (USD 2.2bn or Euros 1.6bn). Aggreko plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (AGK.L), is a member of the FTSE-100 index, and is headquartered in Scotland. For more information, please visit the company website at www.aggreko.com
Aggreko provides power and temperature control solutions to customers who need them either very quickly, or for a short or indeterminate length of time. Examples would be the supply of power to an industrial site which needs to service its permanent power supply, supplying a whole city in times of power shortage, or providing a major sporting event with power and cooling systems. We serve our customers either through our 165 service centres, which we call the Local business, or globally through our International Power Projects business.
In the Local business, which accounts for about half of our revenues, we hire our equipment to customers, who then operate it for themselves, although we retain responsibility for servicing and maintaining it. In the International Power Projects business, which also accounts for about half of our revenues, we operate as a power producer. We install and operate power plants and we charge our customers both for providing the generating capacity, and for the electricity we produce. We design and manufacture equipment specifically for these requirements in our factory in Dumbarton, Scotland.
Recent customers include the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games , the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and the power utilities in over 50 countries including the UK, France, Angola, Kenya, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil and the USA.
In 2011 we fulfilled almost 43,000 customers' assignments and when researched, 69% of them gave us a recommendation of 9 or 10 out of 10.
For more information, please visit our local website at: www.aggreko.com
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Tel: 0141 225 5900
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To modify Lord Acton, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, but aldermanic power corrupts all der more manically. Proco "Joe" Moreno is Alderman of the First Ward of Chicago, and last week, in a city with an Aurora-size body count every weekend, his priority was to take the municipal tire-iron to the owners of a chain of fast-food restaurants. "Because of this man's ignorance," said Alderman Moreno, "I will now be denying Chick-fil-A's permit to open a restaurant in the First Ward."
"This man's ignorance"? You mean, of the City of Chicago permit process? Zoning regulations? Health and safety ordinances? No, Alderman Moreno means "this man's ignorance" of the approved position on same-sex marriage. "This man" is Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-A, and a few days earlier he had remarked that "we are very much supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives" – which last part suggests he is as antipathetic to no-fault divorce and other heterosexual assaults on matrimony as he is to more recent novelties such as gay marriage. But no matter. Alderman Moreno does not allege that Chick-fil-A discriminates in its hiring practices or in its customer service. Nor does he argue that business owners should not be entitled to hold opinions: The Muppets, for example, have reacted to Mr. Cathy's observations by announcing that they're severing all ties with Chick-fil-A. Did you know that the Muppet Corporation has a position on gay marriage? Well, they do. But Miss Piggy and the Swedish Chef would be permitted to open a business in the First Ward of Chicago because their opinion on gay marriage happens to coincide with Alderman Moreno's. It's his ward, you just live in it. When it comes to lunch options, he's the chicken supremo, and don't you forget it.
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The city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, agrees with the Alderman: Chick-fil-A does not represent "Chicago values" – which is true if by "Chicago values" you mean machine politics, AIDS-conspiracy-peddling pastors and industrial-scale black youth homicide rates. But, before he was mayor, Rahm Emanuel was President Obama's chief of staff. Until the president's recent "evolution," the Obama administration held the same position on gay marriage as Chick-fil-A. Would Alderman Moreno have denied Barack Obama the right to open a chicken restaurant in the First Ward? Did Rahm Emanuel quit the Obama administration on principle? Don't be ridiculous. Mayor Emanuel is a former ballet dancer, and when it's politically necessary he can twirl on a dime.
Meanwhile, fellow mayor Tom Menino announced that Chick-fil-A would not be opening in his burg anytime soon. "If they need licenses in the city, it will be very difficult," said His Honor. If you've just wandered in in the middle of the column, this guy Menino isn't the mayor of Soviet Novosibirsk or Kampong Cham under the Khmer Rouge, but of Boston, Mass. Nevertheless, he shares the commissars' view that in order to operate even a modest and politically inconsequential business it is necessary to demonstrate that one is in full ideological compliance with party orthodoxy. "There is no place for discrimination on Boston's Freedom Trail," Mayor Menino thundered in his letter to Mr. Cathy, "and no place for your company alongside it." No, sir. On Boston's Freedom Trail, you're free to march in ideological lockstep with the city authorities – or else. Hard as it is to believe, there was a time when Massachusetts was a beacon of liberty: the shot heard round the world, and all that. Now it fires Bureau of Compliance permit-rejection letters round the world.
Mayor Menino subsequently backed down and claimed the severed rooster's head left in Mr. Cathy's bed was all just a misunderstanding. Yet, when it comes to fighting homophobia on Boston's Freedom Trail, His Honor is highly selective. As the Boston Herald's Michael Graham pointed out, Menino is happy to hand out municipal licenses to groups whose most prominent figures call for gays to be put to death. The mayor couldn't have been more accommodating (including giving them $1.8 million of municipal land) of the new mosque of the Islamic Society of Boston, whose IRS returns listed as one of their seven trustees Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Like President Obama, Imam Qaradawi's position on gays is in a state of "evolution": He can't decide whether to burn them or toss 'em off a cliff. "Some say we should throw them from a high place," he told Al-Jazeera. "Some say we should burn them, and so on. There is disagreement ... . The important thing is to treat this act as a crime." Unlike the deplorable Mr. Cathy, Imam Qaradawi is admirably open-minded: There are so many ways to kill homosexuals, why restrict yourself to just one? In Mayor Menino's Boston, if you take the same view of marriage as President Obama did from 2009 to 2012, he'll run your homophobic ass out of town. But, if you want to toss those godless sodomites off the John Hancock Tower, he'll officiate at your ribbon-cutting ceremony.
This inconsistency is very telling. The forces of "tolerance" and "diversity" are ever more intolerant of anything less than total ideological homogeneity. Earlier this year, the Susan G. Komen Foundation – the group that gave us those pink "awareness raising" ribbons for breast cancer – decided to end its funding of Planned Parenthood on the grounds that, whatever its other charms, Planned Parenthood has nothing to do with curing breast cancer. Within hours, the Komen Foundation's Nancy Brinker had been jumped by her fellow liberals and was strapped to a chair under a light bulb in the basement with her head clamped between two mammogram plates until she recanted. A few weeks back, Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor who "says he's never voted for a Republican presidential candidate," published a paper in the journal Social Science Research whose findings, alas, did not conform to the party line on gay parenting. Immediately, the party of science set about ending his career, demanding that he be investigated for "scientific misconduct" and calling on mainstream TV and radio networks to ban him from their airwaves.
As an exercise in sheer political muscle, it's impressive. But, if you're a feminist or a gay or any of the other house pets in the Democratic menagerie, you might want to look at Rahm Emanuel's pirouette, and Menino's coziness with Islamic homophobia. These guys are about power, and right now your cause happens to coincide with their political advantage. But political winds shift. Once upon a time, Massachusetts burned witches. Now it grills chicken-sandwich homophobes. One day it'll be something else. Already in Europe, in previously gay-friendly cities like Amsterdam, demographically surging Muslim populations have muted Leftie politicians' commitment to gay rights, feminism and much else. It's easy to cheer on the thugs when they're thuggish in your name. What happens when Emanuel's political needs change?
Americans talk more about liberty than citizens of other Western nations, but, underneath the rhetorical swagger, liberty bleeds. When Mayor Menino and Alderman Moreno openly threaten to deny business licenses because of ideological apostasy, they're declaring their unfitness for public office. It's not about marriage, it's not about gays, it's about a basic understanding that a free society requires a decent respect for a wide range of opinion without penalty by the state. In Menino's Boston, the Freedom Trail is heavy on the Trail, way too light on the Freedom.
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I need something very advanced on this site using jquery (or javascript, ajax, whatever). See this template:
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The middle part contains three parts, three big images with houses. Now if you navigate through them using the big dots
the image moves left or right one spot. I love this, but what I need is these images to be replaced with websites!
So f.e. image 1 (the houses from above) should contain a website, f.e. [url removed, login to view], same goes for image 2 (the center image)
and image 3. Now if you navigate through this the websites move. The number of websites should be endless (f.e. now
I have 800 websites in the database). Also the three websites that are being used in the slider should be preloaded.
This script should connect to this database.
Leaving comments should also be very high-tech. Perhaps you can give me advice on this. You need jquery + php programming
for this part. PHP for connecting to the database and updating etc.
For this project you should copy the template (i have the rights for this template because i was a rocket theme member),
using the slider, menu and logo.
Please give me your advice for the above. Any ideas are welcome.
Tell me if you want to be paid for the whole project or per hour. Also, give me examples of your work.
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