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The inmates are running the asylum is: A reference to 1989 cult film Dr. Caligari. A reference to the 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. A reference to the 2014 film Stonehearst Asylum. A book by software designer and programmer Alan Cooper (software designer), "the father of Visual Basic".
Arriving in town with two pigeons in a cage, Plumpick must evade German soldiers. Slipping into the asylum, he puts on pajamas and mixes with inmates who introduce themselves as The Duke of Clubs and Monsignor Daisy. When Plumpick introduces himself as “the King of Hearts,” the inmates accept him with deference and the Germans overlook him.
The main plot involves Dr. Caligari's experiments with her patients at the C.I.A. (Caligari Insane Asylum), where she transfers glandular brain fluids from one patient to another. Two of her main patients, Mr. Pratt, a cannibalistic serial killer, and Mrs. Van Houten, a nymphomanical housewife, are the primary subjects of her mindswapping. Mrs.
The story has superseded the rule of law, the United States of America has become an asylum run by the inmates, and the culpability lies with a bewildered media represented brilliantly by Downey.
All the local residents have fled, leaving behind only the cheerful inmates of the insane asylum, who happily take over the town and proclaim Johnny their King of Hearts. The show raises the question of who is more insane, the asylum's patients or those who wage war.
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (German: Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade), usually shortened to Marat/Sade (pronounced), is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
The wait is over: Wally Lamb has a new novel coming. The bestselling author of novels like She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is Trueis set to release his latest, The River is Waiting, next ...