The Independent effectively having to function under siege from sacked print workers picketing outside. "The Independent" attracted some of the staff from the two Murdoch broadsheets who had chosen not to move to his company's new headquarters. Launched with the advertising slogan "It is. Are you?", and challenging both "The Guardian" for centre-left readers and "The Times" as the newspaper of record, "The Independent" reached a circulation of over 400,000 by 1989. Competing in a moribund market, "The Independent" sparked a general freshening of newspaper design as well as, within a few years, a price war in the market sector. When "The
Are You with It? it as "a collection of specialty numbers, loosely strung together by a frivolous plot". "The picture ambles along good naturedly enough, but its lines and situations are for the most part thin inducement to laughter." Are You with It? Are You With It? is a 1948 American musical comedy film about a young insurance man who quits his job to join a traveling carnival. The film is based on the 1945 Broadway musical of the same name and the novel "Slightly Perfect" by George Malcolm-Smith. The film stars Donald O'Connor, Olga San Juan, Martha Stewart and Lew Parker. Parker reprised