Since the original run, Shaffer has extensively revised his play, including changes to plot details ; the following is common to all revisions.

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

Creative Commons also has an Audit Committee, with two members: Molly Shaffer Van Houweling and Lawrence Lessig.

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.

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (, born November 28, 1949 ) is a Canadian-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.

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 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.

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 has also recorded with a wide range of artists, including Donald Fagen, Ronnie Wood, Grand Funk Railroad, Diana Ross, B. B.

Shaffer has appeared in a number of motion pictures over the years, including a small role ( Artie Fufkin of Polymer Records ) in Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in the Bill Murray film Scrooged and as a passenger in John Travolta's taxicab in Look Who's Talking Too.

" Shaffer has also received two honorary doctorates, including one from Lakehead University.

Shaffer has been married to Cathy Vasapoli since 1990, with whom he has two children – Victoria ( born 1993 ) and Will ( born 1999 ).

He has been featured in Who's Who in Music and appeared on a compilation album by Paul Shaffer of the David Letterman band, and also on rock group The Black Crowes ' 1996 album Three Snakes and One Charm.

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.

Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.

Letterman's band leader Paul Shaffer has played on a number of Blues Traveler recordings.

Bo Shaffer, CEO of Delta Tech, is known locally as " The Iceman " and caretaker responsible for transporting the dry ice necessary for cryopreservation to the IC Institute, something he has done since 1995.

James " Munky " Shaffer has confirmed ( in an interview ) that a DVD and CD documenting 2007's Family Values Tour has been recorded.

Throughout her life, Shaffer has appeared in numerous soap operas, including Hidden Faces, Search for Tomorrow where she played two separate roles ; that of Emily Rogers Hunter ( 1967-68 ) and Stephanie Wilkins ( 1984-86 ), Where the Heart Is ( in which she played James Mitchell's stony and somewhat snobby sister, Allison Hathaway Archer Jessup ), The Edge of Night ( where she played split personality Serena Faraday / Josie ), All My Children ( playing Erica's evil stepmother, Goldie Kane ), and Guiding Light as Mrs. Humphreys ( 1993 ), and a stint as the judge in the Peter Lewis custody battle ( 1994 ).

In addition to scriptwriting, Shaffer has written numerous books.

Although David maintains no relationship with his former bandmates, he has stated that he has no hard feelings towards guitarist James Shaffer.

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.

On September 18, 2006, the Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Investigations released a report stating that Shaffer was put on leave, that the crew responsible for removing any classified documents from his office to prevent his taking them home with him found that he did not have any of the Able Danger-related documents trusted to him he claimed he had, and that despite the fact that the Army cleared him of any wrongdoing in the allegations " DIA officials would have taken action to revoke LTC Shaffer's access and clearance regardless of his disclosures to the DIA IG, the 9 / 11 Commission staff members, Members of Congress, or the media.

Shaffer had a series of conversations with Hardy, and the two decided that it would be fun to make a horror film centring on " old religion ", in sharp contrast to the popular Hammer films of the day.

In 1977, Shaffer left SNL for a few months to co-star with Greg Evigan in A Year at the Top, a short-lived CBS sitcom in which Shaffer and Evigan play two musicians from Idaho who relocate to Hollywood where they are regularly tempted by a famous promoter ( who is actually the devil's son ), played by Gabriel Dell, to sell their souls in exchange for a year of stardom.

Shaffer received two Academy Award – nominations for adapting his plays Equus and Amadeus for the big screen.

Shaffer was married three times and had two children.

The Union troops then advanced in two wings, with Lt. Col. William F. Shaffer ( Merrill's Horse ) in command of the Union right wing and Major Henry Clay Caldwell of the 3rd Iowa in charge of the left.

On June 23, 1991, Swann married Charena ( née Shaffer ), a psychologist, and they have two sons, Braxton and Shafer.

Shaffer, who at the time worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency, claims he communicated to members of the 9 / 11 Commission that Able Danger had identified two of the three cells responsible for 9 / 11 prior to the attacks, but the Commission did not include this information in their final report.

Shaffer specifically states that in Jan 2000, Able Danger data-mining revealed the existence of a ' Brooklyn ' Al-Qaeda cell connected to the " Blind Sheik " Omar Abdel-Rahman ; as well as two other cells overseas.

In October 2003, according to his later statement to Congress, Shaffer told the 9 / 11 Commission staff director, Dr. Philip D. Zelikow, that in 2000 a DIA data-mining program known as Able Danger had uncovered two of the three terrorist cells eventually implicated in the September 11 attacks.

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.

Shaffer recorded the famous synthesizer solo in the 1982 hit " Goodbye to You " by the band Scandal.

Chris Shaffer recorded several solo discs as well as recording with his first post-Why Store band, Shaffer Street.

The show also got a house band, hiring prominent musician Paul Shaffer to lead the group named The World's Most Dangerous Band.

Similarly, the in-house band was unable to use the name " The World's Most Dangerous Band " so they instead called themselves the CBS Orchestra starring Paul Shaffer.

Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band perform the Chuck Berry song " Roll over Beethoven " for the 1992 film Beethoven.

Popular late night band leaders include Paul Shaffer, leader of The CBS Orchestra / The World's Most Dangerous Band on Late Night and the Late Show with David Letterman ; Max Weinberg, leader of The Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night and The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show with Conan O ' Brien ; Kevin Eubanks, leader of the The Tonight Show Band and the Primetime Band and The Roots, famous eclectic hiphop band now host-band of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

* Munch makes a cameo appearance on the 1993 Paul Shaffer album The World's Most Dangerous Party.

In addition to The Office, Baladi has appeared in various films and television shows including Kidnap and Ransom, as Philip Shaffer, ITV ( 2011 ), Alpha Male, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Beyond The Pole, Bodies, P. O. W ( TV Series ), Lady Audley's Secret, Grafters, Silent Witness, The International, Party Animals, and Mistresses.