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...They got one of these kids, you know with the Afros and the fancy clothes and they told him to run the operation. That mariconde! He doesn't know the first thing about politics. All they did was pay money to these drunken gypsy cab drivers to ride around the streets of El Barrio with Badillo posters on their cars...
...filmmaker, but those liberties have been abused with Live and Let Die. Because of its extensive use of blacks, it attempts to broaden its appeal and double its audience. But it only offends. Fleming's loving portrait of Harlem by night is gone, replaced by a leering broad daylight cab ride into Harlem, whose one joke is of course Bond's whiteness in black Harlem. There is an obligatory Harlem shot (125th and Lenox probably). But this is obviously not Harlem, because this Harlem has no people, only pimps and pimp cars. It's a set piece, all clothes...
There is yet a more serious failure of approach. Each of the Bond series has been characterized by a certain flippancy of approach. Apparently no one ever felt the need for accuracy, or credibility. Consequently, we are expected to believe a chase sequence in which Moore merely maneuvers a cab through a meticulously placed set of cars, showroom new to boot, on an otherwise empty FDR drive. It could've been a Liberty Mutual auto insurance commercial...
...million, mostly in the islands' booming tourist industry. "If the current pace of Japanese investment continues, it could mean foreign control of the state's leading industry within the next five years," concludes a report of the Republican caucus in the state house of representatives. A Honolulu cab driver is more blunt: "What the Japanese couldn't do during World War II, they are trying to do with bags of money-take over these islands...
...surfaced last week about Smith and Nixon's 1968 campaign. According to David Stutz, an ex-IRS agent who now works for San Diego's district attorney, a federal anticrime strike force and grand jury in 1970 heard testimony from Charles Pratt, owner of a San Diego cab company, about illegal contributions. Pratt said that Smith had asked him to buy a ticket to a $1,000-a-plate Nixon campaign dinner in 1968. When Pratt replied that he did not have the money, Smith allegedly told him that it could "come out of the business." Pratt used...