The King of Comedy (film) character fails to differentiate between his fantasies and reality in much the same way. Scorsese sought to achieve the same with the film so that, in his words, the "fantasy is more real than reality". Rupert Pupkin has been compared to Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver": both characters have serious issues with reality testing, that is drawing the line between outer objective and inner subjective reality. In her review, entertainment columnist Marilyn Beck approved Johnny Carson's refusal to participate in "The King of Comedy", supposedly because he feared the film could inspire psychopaths like John Hinckley. Beck considered "The King
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,