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Victoria Station, the opening skit, is an edgy conversation between a perplexed London taxi-fleet dispatcher and a maddeningly vague, or vaguely mad, cab driver (Kevin Conway). One for the Road, set in an unidentified police state, offers the horrific spectacle of the torturer as business executive, bantering with his victims as he sends them off to be flogged, raped or killed. In A Kind of Alaska, a middle-aged woman (Dianne Wiest) awakes from a 29-year siege of sleeping sickness to confront a reality at pathetic odds with her memories and hallucinations. Dispatcher, torture victim, woman, all struggle...
Over the past decade and a half, James Brooks, 43, has made a career out of writing and producing such unpredictable TV comedies as Taxi and Mary Tyler Moore. But last week, after winning three Oscars for Terms of Endearment, the first movie he ever directed, the normally pessimistic Brooks reacted in an uncharacteristically predictable way: he was ecstatic. "I'm nuts," he said. "I'm programmed for about two minutes of joy, and this has been going on for 48 hours...
Cambridge taxi drivers won a partial victory last week when Yellow Cabs of Cambridge announced that its proposed sale of 52 taxi licenses to Ambassador Brattle Cabs was off averting a near monopoly of taxi cabs in the city...
With 75 percent of the 240 city taxi licenses, Suozzo could "put the squeeze" on medallions, raising prices, and offering them to other owner-operators at high interest rates, cabbies said, adding that Suozzo would also dominate the only radio dispatch network in the city...
...another taxi-related measure, Healy told the city council last night that new taxi license applicants will now have to pass an exam on points of interest in the city and the surrounding area...