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NAME: N.Y.C. cabbies OCCUPATION: Tolerating rude passengers FIRST PUNCH: Five taxi drivers sped past as Glover and his daughter tried to hail a cab in Harlem; a driver who did stop tried to prevent the 6-ft. 4-in. actor from sitting in the front seat, which has more legroom...
...medic who has lost faith in himself and is haunted by the ghost of a girl he couldn't save. He finally finds redemption with the help of Mary (Patricia Arquette), whose own suffering brings them together. Here, Scorcese revisits his Last Temptation of Christ with a bit of Taxi Driver thrown in. With enough Christian motifs packed into the film to revive Sunday school memories for any born-again atheist, this movie explores the world of the paramedics as they provide salvation-on-wheels to the wretches of New York City...
...imposed virtual martial law. Yet most Pakistanis barely shrugged. Shops remained open. Telephone service was restored. Children went to school. In Sharif's hometown of Lahore, people danced in the streets and distributed candies to celebrate the coup. "We don't want democracy," said Mohammed Tariq, 22, a taxi driver in the capital, Islamabad. "We just want law and order and stable prices...
Frank's desperation will remind some people of Taxi Driver--and, indeed, the movies share the same director, the same screenwriter (Paul Schrader) and the same ambiance (New York's night streets, teeming with hookers and junkies, quickened with the threat of sudden, pointless death). There is also, of course, the same sort of harsh yet slightly fantastical realism and the same sort of antisocial protagonist, who thinks his life might be justified if he could just leave these hellish streets behind. The fact that Frank's vantage point is, like Travis Bickle's, a moving vehicle (in Frank...
...looked as if he would. After Pritchard won the comedy competition, he scored every funny man's fantasy: an appearance on the Tonight Show. That led to more TV. A 6-ft. 6-in., 300-lb. grizzly of a man, Pritchard danced with Judd Hirsch in an episode of Taxi, and two networks had a bidding war over him. But nothing in Hollywood interested Pritchard as much as the homeboys back at the hall. "If Mother Teresa had a kid with Jesse Ventura," says Robin Williams, who worked the same clubs as Pritchard back then, "you'd get Mike...