Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of visual product himself, neatly suited out and playing host on the show like an anchorman cut loose from his moorings. He remains unflappable, unfazed in the face of a blitzkrieg lecture on the ratings by a house expert ("Gimme a Break's sort of a joke, Taxi's O.K., fair, Devlin hasn't occurred yet, the long range is good for ABC . . .") and commendably noncommittal when the president of Showtime drops in to plug Romance, a spicy soap opera featuring dialogue ("I'm an actress, not a hooker") that could use a little less...
...week shot a cover photograph of the President in his private quarters aboard Air Force One. The luxury jet's departure was delayed five minutes so that Kennerly could complete his photo session. Says he: "I could hear the meter ticking on the world's most expensive taxi...
Hinckley did, however, exhibit considerable emotion on a tape, released as evidence last week, that he made at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., on New Year's Eve 1980. By then he had become infatuated with Foster after seeing Taxi Driver as many as 15 times. In the movie, a crazed cabbie, played by Robert De Niro, sets out to assassinate a presidential candidate in an attempt to impress a child prostitute, played by Foster. Hinckley so identified with the film's anti-hero that he bought an Army fatigue jacket and took to drinking peach...
...pubs across the country, the WJM team had assembled to lament the untimely passing of some fine old friends: Louie De Palma, Doctor Johnny Fever, Detective Harris, Mork from Ork. With a few swipes of TV executives' pens, four of the best comedy series of the late 1970s-Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, Barney Miller, Mork & Mindy-had been erased from the prime-time schedule. Their ghosts would haunt reruns, but the message seemed clear: the era of the sophisticated sitcom was over. Thus it was fitting that the characters who had inhabited the Mary Tyler Moore show, first...
...guess I'll miss Taxi the most," Mary said, sighing her big sigh. "It was written by our writers-James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, Ed. Weinberger, the great David Lloyd. The Taxi characters were so much like us, and so good at it. The Sunshine Cab Co. was a place to work in that became a place to live in. And your co-workers became your friends: Alex the off-duty rabbi, and sweet dim Tony, and Latka the gentle schizoid. And Reverend Jim, phoning in his blissed-out wisdom from Planet X. And Elaine, the only woman...