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| - The Independent is a newspaper serving Chester's Mill, Maine, owned and operated by Julia Shumway
- The Independent is a daily newspaper in London, England.
- On an early summer morning in February 1986, locally renowned vagrant and Skiffle artist Janet "The Streets" Porter was resting after a long night of banging on garbage cans to the tune of All Along The Watchtower, when, as she recounts, "nature called". Lacking toilet paper, she was forced to use her trademark begging sign as a substitute. The sign, which originally read "The Independent Artist relies on the kind contributions of her public", now drenched in faeces, simply read "The Independent". Two drunk-off-their-arse students who were passing by took inspiration from the new sign, and by the end of the week, the newspaper equivalent of Channel 5 was born.
- A mockumentary starring Jerry Stiller as Morty Fineman, a independent filmmaker who once had a long running streak of success in making Exploitation Movies (427 of 'em, in fact), but has since fallen on hard times. The film focuses on Fineman's attempts to make a comeback by seeking out the rights to make a biography of a notorious serial killer. This is actually a pretense to seek funding to complete another movie, Mrs. Kavorkian. Things don't go over so well when the serial killer insists that his biography be told as a musical.
- A UK-based newspaper. The Independent, affectionately known as "The Indy", and its associated Sunday publication, "The Independent on Sunday" is a UK "broadsheet" or serious newspaper. It is no longer actually "broadsheet" sized, having been amongst the vanguard in a recent shift by several papers to tabloid or berliner formats. The paper is reknowned for its high quality photographs. It is the least well-read of mainstream UK newspapers, but is consistently gaining ground on its rivals, principally those viewed as mildly left-of-centre politically, such as the Guardian and the Times.
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| - The Independent is a newspaper serving Chester's Mill, Maine, owned and operated by Julia Shumway
- A UK-based newspaper. The Independent, affectionately known as "The Indy", and its associated Sunday publication, "The Independent on Sunday" is a UK "broadsheet" or serious newspaper. It is no longer actually "broadsheet" sized, having been amongst the vanguard in a recent shift by several papers to tabloid or berliner formats. The paper is reknowned for its high quality photographs. It is the least well-read of mainstream UK newspapers, but is consistently gaining ground on its rivals, principally those viewed as mildly left-of-centre politically, such as the Guardian and the Times. It is not neccessarily any more "independent" than any other newspaper, counting on its board, for example, life peer Baroness Jay, a former member of the UK Government cabinet. In October 2005 Danny's flat was spotted for sale in the property section of the paper.
- The Independent is a daily newspaper in London, England.
- A mockumentary starring Jerry Stiller as Morty Fineman, a independent filmmaker who once had a long running streak of success in making Exploitation Movies (427 of 'em, in fact), but has since fallen on hard times. The film focuses on Fineman's attempts to make a comeback by seeking out the rights to make a biography of a notorious serial killer. This is actually a pretense to seek funding to complete another movie, Mrs. Kavorkian. Things don't go over so well when the serial killer insists that his biography be told as a musical. The Independent parodies real-life directors of mostly gimmicky and schlocky films, like Roger Corman and William Castle, and a variety of different Exploitation Film genres, and a very specific parody of both Billy Jack and Heavens Gate. Janeane Garofalo appears as Morty's long-suffering manager/daughter. Jerry's real-life son, Ben Stiller, briefly appears in a fake clip from one of Morty's movies. Real life independent filmmakers like Ted Demme, Peter Bogdanovich, Fred Williamson, Nick Cassavetes and even Roger Corman (a subject of parody in the film's main character) appear as themselves. B-movie actress Julie Strain, and comedians Andy Dick and Brian Posehn also have appearances in the film. It's often been screened on Comedy Central, but is otherwise little seen. In addition to parodying the independent film scene, it's also an independent film itself, and a somewhat low budgeted one at that, although it doesn't show it. Clips from Morty's big budget flop, for example, look remarkably well done.
- On an early summer morning in February 1986, locally renowned vagrant and Skiffle artist Janet "The Streets" Porter was resting after a long night of banging on garbage cans to the tune of All Along The Watchtower, when, as she recounts, "nature called". Lacking toilet paper, she was forced to use her trademark begging sign as a substitute. The sign, which originally read "The Independent Artist relies on the kind contributions of her public", now drenched in faeces, simply read "The Independent". Two drunk-off-their-arse students who were passing by took inspiration from the new sign, and by the end of the week, the newspaper equivalent of Channel 5 was born.
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