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...Hollywood." He ended up at Howard's Weekly Apartments, in the seamy Selma Avenue district of Los Angeles-a street market for whores, drugs and every kind of sleaze. Perhaps during this period Hinckley developed his obsession with Actress Jodie Foster. Consider the plot parallels of the movie Taxi Driver, starring Foster as a prostitute and released just before Hinckley left for Los Angeles...
...selfesteem, many have donned and doffed different identities like costumes. Some have tried to weave identities out of fictional strands. Bremer imagined himself as the son of Actress Donna Reed. Sara Jane Moore, who tried to shoot President Ford, thought of herself as a Halo shampoo girl. The movie Taxi Driver wove together many themes found in the lives of American assassins. A taxi driver (played by Robert De Niro), obsessed with shooting a presidential candidate and protecting a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), beset by aggressive urges as well as sexual ones (coded in the film as a pure-hearted...
...violence. The morning after the Academy Awards, newspapers published the hypothesis of federal investigators that the suspect in the shooting was inspired by a character from the movies--a deranged ex-marine who arms himself to the teeth and stalks a United States senator. The movie was "Taxi Driver," and the gunman's prototype was played by Robert De Niro...
Still another actor entered the scene in the investigation of the shooting--18-year-old Jodie Foster. De Niro's co-star in "Taxi Driver" (a role that won her an Oscar, nomination). In the suspect's motel room after the shooting, detectives uncovered an unmailed note to Foster that read, according to one account, "If you don't love me. I'm going to kill the President." It turned out to be only the most recent of a series of pathetic letters to the actress...
...incident. On taking office last month, the Soviet-trained general pleaded for "90 days of calm" and then consistently worked for accommodation with the unions. "There is trust in him and his uniform," Walesa told the strikers last week. "Jaruzelski is a good man," said a Warsaw taxi driver. "No known girlfriends. No dacha. No money stashed away. Not like others who are not as equal as they pretend...