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The best of the lot is Taxi Driver (Lowell House), a 1976 academy-award nominee directed by Martin Scorcese. The war in this film Vietnam, from which one Travis Bickle has just returned. Although Travis, played by Robert (fuckin') DeNiro, was not physically injured during his tour of duty, some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Front Line: Hollywood | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

DeNiro's character, it turns out, is just that kind of rain. Shaving his head, toning up his muscles and donning an arsenal of firearms, Travis sets off to do battle with the Big Apple and rescue a child prostitute, played by Jodie Foster. Although this film contains none of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Front Line: Hollywood | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

The crusty moralist in MacDonald -- familiar, especially, from his gratifyingly mordant asides in the Travis Magee books -- finally erupts when Rowan and his wife split up. Rowan castigates the self-sufficient woman his wife has become and complains that he wants his "compliant, noncombative, dependent, absorbed-in-me girl back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odd Couple A FRIENDSHIP: Rowan and MacDonald | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

For 25 years, Eastern's hourly no-frills flights linking Boston, New York and Washington have been the backbone of the Bos-Wash axis. Habitues have dubbed the $75 ride between New York and Washington, which combines the convenience and discomfort of a subway, the "cattle car." Anybody who is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Corridor | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

By today's behavioral standards, the Continental Op is a head case. But his blunt vernacular helped to establish the voice that influenced generations of American writers. Like that other homegrown art form, jazz, the hard-boiled style relied on a formula but encouraged improvisation. James M. Cain (The Postman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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