Shaffer largely based his allegations on the recollections of Navy Captain Scott Phillpott, who later recanted his recollection, telling investigators that he was " convinced that Atta was not on the chart that we had ".

Phillpott said that Shaffer was " relying on my recollection 100 percent ", and the Defense Department Inspector General's report indicated that Philpott strongly supported the social network analysis techniques used in Able Danger, and might have exaggerated claims of identifying the hijackers.

The first significant post-Led Zeppelin project was The Honeydrippers, formed in 1981 by Robert Plant and featuring Jimmy Page on lead guitar, along with studio musicians and friends of Plant and Page, including Jeff Beck, Paul Shaffer, and Nile Rodgers.

( There was a rumor that Sleuth was given the working title Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim ?, but in a New York Times interview on March 10, 1996, Shaffer denied ever using the title.

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

Caesar claimed that the local tribes there had executed their most serious criminals by burning them alive in a huge man-shaped sculpture of woven twigs ; to Shaffer, this was " the most alarming and imposing image that had ever seen ".

Diane Cilento was lured out of semi-retirement after Shaffer saw her on the stage to play the town's schoolmistress, and Ingrid Pitt ( another British horror film veteran ) was cast as the town librarian and registrar.

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

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.

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.

Bandleader Paul Shaffer was among those who hosted, when he interviewed Jerry Seinfeld.

Shaffer was born and raised in Fort William ( now Thunder Bay ), Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley and Bernard Shaffer, a lawyer.

Shaffer was raised in a Jewish family.

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.

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 later reported that he was in ( unrequited ) love with Gilda 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.

Many of Kaufman's real life friends and co-stars also appear in the film ( although not all as themselves ), including Zmuda, Shapiro, Chad Whitson, Margulies, David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, professional wrestler Jerry Lawler, Memphis wrestling TV personality Lance Russell, Budd Friedman, Jeff Conaway, Marilu Henner, Carol Kane, Judd Hirsch, Christopher Lloyd, and Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.

The band's original keyboardist, Paul Shaffer, was committed to Gilda Radner's one-woman show on Broadway and was unable to appear in the first film.

They toured the UK with the Peter Shaffer play Lettice and Lovage, as well as continuing to appear in their variety act, touring with the variety show Palladium Nights until 2001 ).

Kirshner's wooden presentation style was later lampooned on Saturday Night Live by Paul Shaffer, most notably in Shaffer's introduction of the Blues Brothers during the duo's television debut.

* Gilda Live ( with Gilda Radner, Anne Beatts, Lorne Michaels, Michael O ' Donoghue, Rosie Shuster, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Paul Shaffer and Alan Zweibel ) ( 1980 )

* Gilda Live ( with Gilda Radner, Lorne Michaels, Anne Beatts, Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel, Marilyn Suzanne-Miller, Paul Shaffer and Don Novello ) ( 1980 ) ( Stage / Film )

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Shaffer enlisted in the Ohio Army National Guard in 1980 and graduated from Officer Candidate School in 1982.

The Wicker Man is a 1973 British horror film, directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer.

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.

Shaffer wanted the film to be " a little more literate " than the average horror picture.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Shaffer was initially reluctant to sell the film rights to the play, fearful it would undercut the success of the stage version.

One example was in 1998 when Shaffer traveled to Canada to film his cameo in Blues Brothers 2000.

A supporting role in the 1983 Rodney Dangerfield film Easy Money and a guest shot on Remington Steele led to his replacing Ian Richardson in Miloš Forman's 1984 adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play Amadeus as Emperor Joseph II ; he received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance.

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

In 1985, Cilento married Anthony Shaffer, a playwright, who wrote the script of The Wicker Man ; she met him when she appeared in the film in 1973, and he joined her when she returned to Queensland in 1975.

In 1970, Peter Shaffer's twin brother, Anthony Shaffer, had adapted Black Comedy into a screenplay, announcing that it would be his next project, but the film was not produced.

Shaffer had offered him the role in the original London production, but he was unavailable due to film commitments.

Amadeus is a 1984 period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer.

The film won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor ( Abraham ), Best Director ( Forman ), Costume Design ( Theodor Pištěk ), Adapted Screenplay ( Shaffer ), Art Direction ( Patrizia von Brandenstein ), Best Makeup, and Best Sound.

The film was nominated for six Golden Globes ( Hulce and Abraham were nominated together ) and won four, including awards to Forman, Abraham, Shaffer, and Golden Globe Award for Best Picture — Drama.

* Equus ( film ), a film adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play