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...author underscores what all this means to lowly screenwriters: "Stars will not play weak and they will not play blemished, and you better know that now." Exceptions to this rule? Goldman raises some only to demolish them: "Of course De Niro will play a psychopath in Taxi Driver. Some psychopath - he risks his life trying to save the virtue of your everyday ordinary-looking child prostitute, Jodie Foster...
...melodramatic, yet her dark night is full of the sort of detail that Didion knows how to use so well: the beach towels at the San Salvador super market that are printed with maps of Manhattan that pinpoint Bloomingdale's; the local woman who gets out of a taxi in a provincial town and leaves behind the scent of Arpege; the dubbed television version of The Winning Team, starring Doris Day and Ronald Reagan, in which the now U.S. President exclaims in accented English, "Play ball!" The 1952 movie is about the pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, and the game...
About 30 vocal taxi drivers came before the Cambridge City Council last night to seek support for their opposition to a proposal sponsored by cab owners to lease their cars to drivers...
...Reed's first week in El Salvador Reed, a photographer with the San Francisco Examiner, decided to hail a taxi along with two other journalists to investigate the source of gunfire heard moments earlier. The trio hopped in a cab, and the car moved through the city of San Salvador, heading for the portion of town known as the "combat zone." The buriy Reed noticed that the rear window had been previously shot out and there was a bullet hole in the roof...
...M113 vs. the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The M113 armored personnel carrier has been the U.S. Army's "battlefield taxi" since 1960. It hauls troops to the action, but they have to jump out and fight on foot. Army planners wanted the infantry to ride right into battle alongside tanks, so they designed the Bradley. The Army plans to buy 6,882 at a cost of $1,947,000 each, vs. about $80,000 for an M113...