Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sound like fun viewing? It is. The scene when the high schoolers' taxi pulls up next to Mr. Bueller's is an absolute classic...
...couple had appeared at the U.S. embassy in Vienna this past March 21. They had stopped in the Austrian capital on their way to Budapest, where they were to begin work on a film about Genghis Khan. So their story goes, they fled to the embassy in a taxi with another cab full of North Korean agents in hot pursuit. Shin claimed last week that he was so trusted by North Korean officials that they had deposited $2.3 million in a Vienna bank account...
...this season's first ten efforts, two derived from old movies, two reworked old novels, four rehashed old stage or cabaret shows, and six relied entirely on recycled songs. Last week the main stem reached back 20 years to revive Sweet Charity, a loud, sentimental farce about a taxi dancer who gives herself body and soul, but especially body, to any man who hints of love. In 1966, Sweet Charity garnered just one Tony Award, for Bob Fosse's explosive choreography, yet it ran 18 months on the strength of its likability and slickness. Those are still the show...
...mean-streets survivor who got ahead on a good grin, good moves and better hustle. To a generation of comic impressionists, Jimmy Cagney's mannerisms became part of the standard repertoire: the tough-guy, tommy-gun chatter, the feinted jab to convey affection (first aimed at Loretta Young in Taxi) and the square-shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired in March 1984, Cagney stood a head...
...taxi driver heard the shots and immediately called for help. When police arrived, Mrs. Palme, herself grazed across the back by a bullet, said, "Don't you recognize me? My Olof has been shot." Within minutes Palme was rushed to Sabbatsberg Hospital, where doctors struggled in vain to keep him alive. At six minutes past midnight Saturday morning he was declared dead. Palme thus became the first Swedish leader to be killed since King Gustav III was shot to death at a masked ball at Stockholm's opera house...