Night and the City (1992 film) De Niro's work as "more like a riff on Rupert Pupkin, the goofy talk show fan he played in Scorsese's "The King of Comedy"". Ebert and Howe both agreed, however, that Alan King's performance was fantastic. Owen Gleiberman concurred in his review, but he sided with Ebert regarding De Niro, concluding, "the actor who once seemed the heir to Brando, Clift, and, yes, Widmark — the actor who once got so far inside his roles that he just about detonated the screen — now plays characters who don't seem to have any inner life at all." David Ansen praised the
Rupert (play) was reviewed by the Murdoch-owned "Herald Sun" but the review was never published. However reviews of the play were published in other Murdoch-owned newspapers. The production was reviewed by the Washington Post as an entry in the Kennedy Center’s "World Stages International Theater Festival", March 2014. Rupert (play) Rupert is a 2013 play by David Williamson about Rupert Murdoch. Williamson was approached to write the play for the Melbourne Theatre Company. "If you’re doing big canvas, you’ve got to be passionate that the way the world is heading is not good," he said. "I still buy "The Australian" every morning,