In 1979, shortly before Radner began her final season on Saturday Night Live, her Broadway show was filmed by Mike Nichols under the title Gilda Live !, co-starring Paul Shaffer and Don Novello, and was released to theaters nationwide in 1980 with poor results.

" In January 1895, the new breaker at the No. 3 was under construction, designed by Abram Shaffer ; it began operating on June 1, 1895.

According to Shaffer, Olivier stated that when filming began he looked upon Caine as an assistant, but that by the end of filming he regarded him as a full partner.

She began dating child psychiatrist David Shaffer, an older acquaintance from London.

" In particular, Shaffer would recall vividly one specific audience member, " an enormously fat man in front of me, who hadn ’ t laughed once, he was the only man in the theatre, I think, who wasn ’ t laughing, and I decided that if he disliked it, it was a failure -- I didn ’ t know who he was, just that he was in my eye line, and if he liked it it was a success, you know how rational one can be — suddenly laughed like ... a volcano about to erupt, and he fell in the aisle and began to crawl towards the stage ... sobbing with laughter — and calling out to the actors — this was on the first night — crawling down among the knees of the critics and all that saying, “ Oh stop it, please stop it, please stop it!

Aykroyd educated Belushi on the finer points of blues music and, with a little encouragement from then-SNL music director Paul Shaffer, it led to the creation of their Blues Brothers characters.

Pop music was the focus of June 7, with Paul Shaffer hosting performances by Art Garfunkel, Bruce Hornsby, k. d.

The show's music director and band-leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, is Paul Shaffer.

The game is mentioned in the 1972 film version the play Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, when the character Andrew Wyke refers to " an intensely complicated 4th dynasty blocking game called Senet.

His other major screenplays include the Hitchcock thriller Frenzy ( 1972 ) and the British cult thriller The Wicker Man ( 1973 ) with whose director, Robin Hardy, Shaffer had previously set up a television production company Hardy, Shaffer & Associates.

Sleuth is a 1972 mystery film, an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Sleuth by British playwright Anthony Shaffer.

In 1972, she played the character of Robin in a Toronto production of Godspell, with a cast that included future comedy stars Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, singer and actor Victor Garber, and musical director Paul Shaffer.

Though Shaffer was at the piano and appeared to be directing the band's actions, Howard Shore was credited as SNLs musical director, eventually turning the actual conducting of the band to sax player Howard Johnson.

Shaffer occasionally teamed up with the Not Ready for Prime-Time Players off the show as well, including work on Gilda Radner's highly successful Broadway show and as the musical director for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers.

Since 1982, Shaffer has served as musical director for David Letterman's late night talk shows: as leader of " The World's Most Dangerous Band " for Late Night with David Letterman ( 1982 – 1993 ) on NBC, for which he also composed the theme song, and as leader of the CBS Orchestra for the Late Show with David Letterman ( 1993 – present ) on CBS.

Shaffer has served as musical director and producer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony since its inception in 1986 and filled the same role for the 1996 Olympic Games closing ceremonies from Atlanta, Georgia.

Shaffer also served as musical director for Fats Domino and Friends, a Cinemax special that included Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ron Wood.

That year, SNL parodied the Troggs Tapes with a medieval musical sketch featuring Shaffer, Bill Murray, Harry Shearer, and a " special guest appearance " by John Belushi ( who had left the show the previous spring ).

Shaffer served as musical director for 2001's The Concert For New York City, and accompanied Adam Sandler's Opera Man sketch and the Backstreet Boys ' " Quit Playing Games ( With My Heart )".

In the movie, he is played by actor Jeffrey Jones as a well-meaning but somewhat befuddled monarch of limited but enthusiastic musical skill, easily manipulated by Salieri ; however, Shaffer has made it clear his play is fiction in many respects and not intended to portray historical reality.

The Toronto production provided the first regular acting jobs for several notable performers, including Victor Garber, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Gilda Radner, Dave Thomas, and Martin Short, and the show's musical director Paul Shaffer.

The Ventures performed their biggest hits, " Walk, Don't Run " and " Hawaii Five-O ", augmented on the latter by Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame musical director Paul Shaffer and his band.

Paul Shaffer was the musical director.

* Paul Shaffer ; 7T1, well-known musical director, producer, performer, and David Letterman sidekick.

Paul Shaffer served as musical director for the show.

Common contributors included bandleader Paul Shaffer, Chris Elliott, Calvert DeForest as " Larry ' Bud ' Melman ," announcer Bill Wendell, writer Adam Resnick, scenic designer Kathleen Ankers, stage manager Biff Henderson, producer Robert Morton, director Hal Gurnee, associate director Peter Fatovich, stage hand Al Maher, camera operator Baily Stortz and the " production twins ," Barbara Gaines and Jude Brennan.

* John Shaffer Phipps, director of U. S. Steel and W. R. Grace & Co.

* Paul Shaffer – director and vocals

* Henry Shaffer, ( film ) art director, credited to The Exorcist III ( 1990 ) and Zits ( 1988 )

The current director of the program is Paul Shaffer.

In 2008, Gussow was inducted posthumously into the American Theater Hall of Fame at the same time as actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, the actors John Cullum, Lois Smith and Dana Ivey, the director Jack O ' Brien, the playwright Peter Shaffer, and the librettist Joseph Stein.

" Specifically, the DIA wanted references to a meeting between Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, the book's author, and the executive director of the 9 / 11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, removed ".

They performed " Can't Fight This Feeling " and " Roll With the Changes ", which featured members of the Beach Boys, the REO Speedwagon band members ' families, and Paul Shaffer on stage for backing vocals.

The play was adapted by Shaffer for the 1984 film of the same name.

In 1989, the film's screenwriter Anthony Shaffer wrote a script treatment for The Loathsome Lambton Worm, a direct sequel with fantasy elements.

Shaffer read the David Pinner novel Ritual, in which a devout Christian policeman is called to investigate what appears to be the ritual murder of a young girl in a rural village, and decided that it would serve well as the source material for the project.

Shaffer and Lee paid Pinner £ 15, 000 for the rights to the novel, and Schaffer set to work on the screenplay.

In 1989, Anthony Shaffer wrote a thirty-page film script treatment entitled The Loathsome Lambton Worm, a direct sequel to The Wicker Man, for producer Lance Reynolds.

According to guitarist James " Munky " Shaffer, Korn has begun writing new material for their next album.

However, this view has been attacked by Jonathan Shaffer, who has argued that truthmaking is not an adequate test for ontological commitment: at best, the search for the truthmakers of our theory will tell us what is " fundamental ", but not what our theory is ontologically committed to, and hence will not serve as a good way of deciding what exists.

In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of " Foggy Mountain Breakdown ", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo ( Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts ), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin.

In the 1964 – 65 season, the Warriors traded Wilt Chamberlain to the Philadelphia 76ers for Connie Dierking, Lee Shaffer, Paul Neumann and $ 150, 000, as they only won 17 games that season.

During 1989, Perkins also signed a record deal with Platinum Records LTD for an album with the title Friends, Family, and Legends, featuring performances by Chet Atkins, Travis Tritt, Steve Wariner, Joan Jett and Charlie Daniels, along with Paul Shaffer and Will Lee.

Shaffer also regularly appeared in the show's sketches, notably as the pianist for Bill Murray's Nick the Lounge Singer character, and as Don Kirshner.

In a nasty memo to fellow SNL colleagues, Belushi said that he was unhappy that Shaffer was spending so much time on a studio record for Radner.

Shaffer has also guest-hosted the show a few times when Letterman was unavailable, including during Letterman's January 2000 medical leave for quintuple heart bypass surgery, and during the birth of Letterman's son Harry in November 2003.