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...hundred baht. Take it or leave it," says Wiset Samsee. I've been negotiating with the 28-year-old driver for some time, but Wiset is unmoved. He seems more interested in the procession of jiggling, pierced, backpacker flesh parading down Bangkok's Khao San Road than in tackling the Friday-afternoon rush hour...
...year-old remains edgy, untamed. What makes him a pioneer is the grimness of his vision. At times it reveals too much of the backstory of the gay son of a London taxi driver who grew up in welfare housing and whose sister would run home when she had been battered by her husband. No wonder McQueen's creativity has always reeked not of the innocence of youth or joyful fripperies but of brutal experience...
...moral high ground is annoying enough to the Zimbabweans who even noticed it. But the laughable part of the England players' call for a venue change was the worry about "safety issues." "You get the impression that people are running after whites with machetes," sighs Chenjerai, a taxi driver. "Johannesburg is bad. Harare is quite safe." And probably never safer than during the Cup. "Mugabe will sanitize the area," says political commentator Diana Mitchell of the wide, treelined avenues around the cricket ground. "There will be a corridor of protection. The cricketers won't see a thing." Which...
...condo that the Sharks have leased for them in a complex of rococo pink high-rises that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa dipped in grenadine syrup. "You!" Dan commands, using Mandarin for "turn right." Then, after passing through the gates, he says, "Ting!" which means "halt." The driver lets them out in front of a fountain topped by a plaster nymph with breasts the size of cantaloupes...
Scorsese has directed and produced noteworthy films including “Taxi Driver,” “New York, New York,” “The Color of Money” and “Casino...