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...Nowhere is that more visible than at the traffic islands and verges close to the Nile. At dusk on Thursday evenings the grass is dotted with dozens and dozens of young couples. "This is where young men and women come to spend time together," says a taxi driver in an old, battered yellow Toyota. "If they had done this 10 years ago the police would have come with sticks...
...gotten a lot worse over the last three years," says taxi driver Fernando Ambrosio. "And it is going to get even worse. Everyone is buying cars now. There is much more financing available. I think I am going to give up and do something else, it's too stressful to spend 15 hours a day in traffic...
...Berlusconi, there's little sign of the optimism and enthusiasm that he generated in 2001. Most polls show that voters on both sides of the political spectrum were generally disillusioned with Italy's political class, even though 80% of the electorate showed up at the polls. A Roman taxi driver, Filippo, who'd voted for Berlusconi, was listening to the radio, just as Veltroni was about to concede defeat. "We Italians always go to vote," he said. "But by now we're sick of all them." Before rescuing Alitalia or turning around the economy or reforming the country's crippled...
...tale in which substance-abusing guests checked into an actual rehab facility under the care of Loveline's Dr. Drew Pinsky. As trashy as its concept was, Rehab's first season was surprisingly earnest, decent and, well, sober, especially as it chronicled the struggle and near breakdowns of former Taxi star Jeff Conaway. Being treated simply as people rather than as stars (or pseudo stars) seemed for some like the first step to sobriety. Celebrity Rehab was as much rehab from celebrity as it was rehab for celebrities...
Scorsese is revered by many as the foremost American picturemaker of his generation. From 1973's Mean Streets through Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas up to his 2006 The Departed (for which he finally won a Best Director Oscar), he has blended elegance with agitation, depicted the anomie of the cunning, late--20th century brute in classical style. Though he's earned his renown with these movies, he's equally adept directing documentaries. Making films like Shine a Light is a vacation from his vocation--an escape from the straitjacket of narrative and from the rigidities...