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  • Robert De Niro compares Trump with "Taxi Driver" character

    08/13/2016 8:08:03 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 70 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Aug 13, 2016 10:46 AM EDT
    Robert De Niro says Donald Trump is like the main character of the legendary 1976 movie “Taxi Driver,” the mentally disturbed Travis Bickle. During a question-and answer session Saturday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, De Niro said, like Bickle, the U.S. Republican presidential candidate is where he shouldn’t be. “God help us,” he added. …
  • How 'Taxi Driver' ruined acting

    05/06/2016 1:56:29 PM PDT · by Borges · 88 replies
    The Economist ^ | 5/6/2016 | TOM SHONE
    “Every day, for 40 f%^&% years, one of you has stopped me on the street and said, ‘You talkin’ to me?’” groused Robert De Niro at a recent Q&A at the Tribeca Film festival reuniting the makers of “Taxi Driver”. Martin Scorsese, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Cybil Shepherd and screenwriter Paul Schrader all swapped anecdotes, and De Niro led the audience in one last rendition of his most famous line, in an effort to expunge the ghost. He’s not the only one haunted by the role, which remains the template for every young Hollywood actor eager to put the lucre...
  • UK taxi driver kills 12, wounds 25 in England

    06/02/2010 12:38:06 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 45 replies · 1,393+ views
    Associated Press ^ | June 2, 2010 | SCOTT HEPPELL and JILL LAWLESS
    SEASCALE, England – A taxi driver drove his vehicle on a shooting spree across a tranquil stretch of northwest England on Wednesday, methodically killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself, officials said. The rampage in the county of Cumbria was Britain's deadliest mass shooting since 1996 and it jolted a country where handguns are banned and multiple shootings rare.
  • Mohawked Man Goes on Miami Airport Assault

    03/22/2010 6:40:44 PM PDT · by kalee · 53 replies · 1,194+ views
    NBC Miami ^ | 3/22/10 | BRIAN HAMACHER
    An out-of-control mohawked man went on an airport assault in Miami early this morning, tussling with workers and police before he was finally tasered and arrested. Michael John Jones, 43, was arrested shortly after 2 a.m. after police said he went berserk inside one of the concourses at MIA. According to a police report, Jones attacked two men without warning inside Concourse H, approaching them with fists clenched and then throwing a metal luggage cart at them. The cart missed, but Jones wasn't finished. He got a hold of one of the victims and started punching him in the face,...