Word: taxy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
NAME: Danny Glover OCCUPATION: Tolerating Mel Gibson COUNTERPUNCH: The Lethal Weapon star and onetime cabdriver filed a formal complaint with the city's taxi and limousine commission, charging discrimination, and proposed all taxi drivers take a course in diversity training...
...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...