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The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh. As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s.
Since 16 August 2004 it has been printed in compact format. Its sister Sunday publication, which remains broadsheet, is titled Scotland on Sunday. The Scotsman Publications Ltd also issues the Edinburgh Evening News and the Herald & Post series of free newspapers in Edinburgh, Fife, and West Lothian.
The Scotsman was launched in 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren in response to the "unblushing subservience" of competing newspapers to the Edinburgh establishment. The paper was pledged to "impartiality, firmness and independence". After the abolition of newspaper stamp tax in Scotland in 1850, The Scotsman was relaunched as a daily newspaper priced at 1d and a circulation of 6,000 copies.
In 1953 the newspaper was bought by Canadian millionaire Roy Thomson who was in the process of building a large media group. The paper was bought in 1995 by David and Frederick Barclay for £85 million. They moved the newspaper from its Edinburgh office on North Bridge, which is now an upmarket hotel, to modern offices on Holyrood Road designed by Edinburgh architects CDA, near the subsequent location of the Scottish Parliament Building.
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He has also won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Laura McLaurin (née Smith, 1922–2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 – October 18, 1987), was a senior executive at Ford Motor Company in charge of the Midwest region. His maternal great-great-grandfather was senator and Mississippi governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams is of English, Welsh, Irish, and French ancestry. He was raised in the Episcopal Church (his mother practiced Christian Science). He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School, and later moved to Woodacre, Marin County, California, where he attended the public Redwood High School. Williams studied at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College) for four years. He has two half-brothers: Todd (who died August 14, 2007) and McLaurin.
Actors: Donald Warnock (editor), Donald Warnock (producer), Donald Warnock (writer), Donald Warnock (actor), Donald Warnock (director), Linda Eknoian (editor), Linda Eknoian (actress), Linda Eknoian (producer), Dale F. Appel (miscellaneous crew), Dale F. Appel (miscellaneous crew), Dale F. Appel (actress), Sharyn Warnock (miscellaneous crew), Justine Lakey (costume designer), Justine Lakey (actress), Ian Forsythe (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Monica Scattini (actress), Enrico Montesano (actor), Sergio Rubini (actor), Mauro Monachini (miscellaneous crew), Salvatore Ricciardi (miscellaneous crew), Alexander Brooks (actor), Massimiliano Bruno (writer), Riccardo Rossi (actor), Fabio Fumelli (miscellaneous crew), Eva Coen (costume designer), Consuelo Catucci (editor), Nicolas Vaporidis (actor), Nicolas Vaporidis (producer), Ana Caterina Morariu (actress), Myriam Catania (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Beth Shea (actress), Jim Bruce (writer), Jim Bruce (producer), Jim Bruce (actor), Ciaran Hope (composer), John Patrick Nelson (producer), John Patrick Nelson (actor), John Patrick Nelson (writer), Dirk Voetberg (actor), Tom Griffin (producer), Tom Griffin (actor), Tom Griffin (writer), Jennifer Lee Weaver (actress), Brian McNett (producer), Brian McNett (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Dan Margules (actor), Sean Hankinson (actor), Marian Mann (actress), Brittany Eldridge (actress), Jeremy Ordaz (actor), Chris Conroy (editor), Mark Kramer (actor), Charles Hayes (actor), David Marchesani (writer), David Marchesani (director), Brenton Williams (actor), Thom Polley (composer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Corin Redgrave (actor), Claudio Saraceni (miscellaneous crew), Mario Monicelli (director), Ruggero Mastroianni (editor), Luigi Magni (writer), Rodolfo Sonego (writer), Ronald Harwood (writer), Stefano Satta Flores (actor), Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia (actor), Carlo Giuffrè (actor), Tiberio Murgia (actor), Stanley Baker (actor), Monica Vitti (actress), Anthony Booth (actor), Gianni Hecht Lucari (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Mario Adorf (actor), Francis De Wolff (actor), Vittorio Gassman (actor), Aldo Giuffrè (actor), Valentino Macchi (actor), Marcello Mastroianni (actor), Luis Bacalov (composer), Enrico Sabbatini (costume designer), Piero Tosi (costume designer), Renato Castellani (director), Jolanda Benvenuti (editor), Piera Degli Esposti (actress), Margaret Lee (actress), Sophia Loren (actress), Nietta Zocchi (actress),
Plot: Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work. Actually it's Maria's lover, a very rich man, who showers her with presents.
Keywords: based-on-novel, ghostActors: Clara Bindi (actress), Antonietta Zita (editor), Alberto Sordi (director), Alberto Sordi (actor), Giorgio Bianchi (producer), Caroline Munro (actress), Piero Piccioni (composer), Alberto Sordi (writer), Sergio Amidei (writer), Michael Trubshawe (actor), Amy Dalby (actress), Romano Giomini (actor), Fiona Lewis (actress), Bart Allison (actor), Jean St. Clair (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Well a Scotsman clad in kilt left a bar on evening fair
And one could tell by how we walked that he drunk more
than his share
He fumbled round until he could no longer keep his feet
Then he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the
street
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
He stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the
street
About that time two young and lovely maids just happend
And one says to the other with a twinkle in her eye
See yon sleeping Scotsman so strong and handsome built
I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the
kilt
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the
kilt
They crept up on that sleeping Scotsman quiet as could
Lifted up his kilt about an inch or two so they could
And there behold, for them to see, beneath his Scottish
skirt
Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his
birth
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his
birth
They marveled for a moment, then one said we must be
gone
Let's leave a present for our friend, before we move
along
As a gift they left a blue silk ribbon, tied into a bow
Around the bonnie star, the Scots kilt did lift and
show
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
Around the bonnie star, the Scots kilt did lift and
show
Now the Scotsman woke to nature's call and stumbled
towards a tree
Behind a bush, he lift his kilt and gawks at what he
tehn did see
And in a startled voice he says to what's before his
eyes.
O lad I don't know where you been but I see you won
first prize
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di diddly I oh
O lad I don't know where you been but I see you won