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...make in his adulterous wife's body, and through it all Travis is expected to stare straight ahead. The camera cuts between the back of his neck, to which the passenger speaks, and Travis's face, which reflects a mixture of horror and fascination. Prostitutes fellate businessmen in his cab--Travis's role is to remain oblivious, and, at the end of the night, to clean the semen stains off the back seat...
...Rostropovich is not immune from the egotism stereotypically associated with superstars. Last week, when a Boston Symphony representative failed to pick up Rostropovich at Logan Airport, the Russian became infuriated and decided to seek revenge. Without a word of warning, he hailed a cab with cello and Pooks in hand and asked to be delivered to the Colonnade Motel, a block from Symphony Hall...
Window Fall. Ray was a bungling burglar. In his first known job, he dropped his savings-account passbook and Army discharge notice in the Los Angeles cafeteria he had broken into. Chased on foot by police after robbing a Chicago cab driver, he fell through the basement window of a house. In a dry-cleaner burglary in East Alton, he was surprised re-entering the place for more loot by cops who had noticed the window ajar. After stealing postal money orders in Illinois with a friend, he left a trail of poorly forged cashed orders and was caught. During...
...their enthusiasm for the new deals, tour operators have filed applications with the CAB for some 4,500 separate flights. "It remains to be seen how many of these get off the ground," warns one travel executive, recalling some of the fly-by-night charter operators of the late 1940s. Thus prospective vacationers are well advised to check into the wholesaler responsible for the tour and even to make sure that they are booked into reputable hotels (most tours offer a choice...
...friends tell it, Frank is making $25,000 a year as the New York Post's first-string film critic. Each morning he eats a light breakfast of warmed-over quiche and Nova Scotia salmon on his wrought-iron balcony overlooking Central Park, and then takes a cab six blocks to a screening session, where he rubs elbows with New York's brightest and best. He hurries home late in the afternoon and makes love to his beautiful, glamorous girlfriend. She asks him to marry her, and he refuses. Eventually he gets down to work--he climbs...