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Hollywood Taxi
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Author : Flash
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2009-02
Hollywood Taxi written by Flash and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
HOLLYWOOD TAXI True Confessions of a Kiss and Tell Driver I first started driving cab in Los Angeles, Calif. In the early 60's. It's a job I returned to over and over again thru the years. Why? I'm not sure but I think one of the things is it makes me feel more engaged with life. It's the last of the great adventures. The urban cowboy. The city is a jungle and every trip a gamble. You have time, transportation and money. If something can happen it will. If you break down they'll come get you. Maybe not for a long time but eventually they'll show up. I've driven off and on for almost forty years. You can only drive so long then the numbers will crunch you. The average driver puts in fifteen hours a week. A cab driver does sixty. You can't be out there that long and not have something happen. If people don't drive you crazy the tickets will break you. I'm addicted to art. Driving cab is how I support that addiction. One of the most intense periods was during the 70's. The love generation was in full bloom. The sexual revolution was not far behind. It happened to me in Southern Calif. Hollywood to be exact. Every other person that got in the cab had some kind of exotic stuff. Everyone was screwing everyone else. Life was a party and the cab driver was in the heart of it. Most people sit home and watch T.V. I'd get stoned and roam around. The windshield was my T.V. Screen. I remember one night rolling down the freeway. It was an especially balmy night. I had the windows down. The wind felt good blowing thru my hair. I was tripping on the stars. They were like diamonds on a deep velvet background. I noticed a flaw. There was what appeared to be a little oblong T.V. screen in it with a man in one corner. I was trying to figger out what it was when the man moved. I had someone in the cab who I had completely forgotten about. To make matters worse I didn't know where I was at. Night after night it was like that. I carried a gun till I discovered it didn't shoot, then I started carrying a camera. A 35 mm Minolta. I pushed Tri-x film to 3200 ASA. I eventually shot 32 rolls of 36 exp. This became my first book, TAXI TIMES a photo documentary of night time cab driving. I also wrote down story after story. The characters I met and the situations I became involved in were endless. They weave a fascinating tale of the human condition that Mark Twain would love. I'm fond of saying, everything you ever heard about those people out there, the sex, the drugs, the violence....it's all true and the some. I've also said there are three kinds of people there; artist actors and illegal aliens. Did I mention whores. Lot's and lot's of whores. People often ask if I came across anybody famous. Here's a clue, "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America". Who's that? Walter Winchell outside the Cocanut Grove. The girl who danced with Michael Jackson in the thriller video, Lola Rae. Had her in the cab a couple of times. The first time she was crying because her Iranian boyfriend wouldn't marry her as fast as she wanted. I came across Rod Stewart one night and didn't even know it was him. I'd taken a call in Beverly Hills. Someone let me in a gate. He went inside. I turned around and parked. Soon a little blond haired guy comes out and asks me how much to go somewhere. He goes back inside and pretty soon some girls come out and get in the cab. The following week I get another call for the same address. This time it's the guy who let me in the first time. He was to going to a see and be seen spot. I asked him who lives there. That was Rod Stewart who came out and asked me how much. I think but I'm not sure I had a very drunk Burt Bacherach in the back once. For every real actor that got in there were many who were wanna' be's and they had a captive audience the driver. Two actors meet in Hollywood. One asks' the other wh
Hollywood Taxi
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Author : Capt.Flash
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2009-02-27
Hollywood Taxi written by Capt.Flash and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
HOLLYWOOD TAXI True Confessions of a Kiss and Tell Driver I first started driving cab in Los Angeles, Calif. In the early 60s. Its a job I returned to over and over again thru the years. Why? Im not sure but I think one of the things is it makes me feel more engaged with life. Its the last of the great adventures. The urban cowboy. The city is a jungle and every trip a gamble. You have time, transportation and money. If something can happen it will. If you break down theyll come get you. Maybe not for a long time but eventually theyll show up. Ive driven off and on for almost forty years. You can only drive so long then the numbers will crunch you. The average driver puts in fifteen hours a week. A cab driver does sixty. You cant be out there that long and not have something happen. If people dont drive you crazy the tickets will break you. Im addicted to art. Driving cab is how I support that addiction. One of the most intense periods was during the 70s. The love generation was in full bloom. The sexual revolution was not far behind. It happened to me in Southern Calif. Hollywood to be exact. Every other person that got in the cab had some kind of exotic stuff. Everyone was screwing everyone else. Life was a party and the cab driver was in the heart of it. Most people sit home and watch T.V. Id get stoned and roam around. The windshield was my T.V. Screen. I remember one night rolling down the freeway. It was an especially balmy night. I had the windows down. The wind felt good blowing thru my hair. I was tripping on the stars. They were like diamonds on a deep velvet background. I noticed a flaw. There was what appeared to be a little oblong T.V. screen in it with a man in one corner. I was trying to figger out what it was when the man moved. I had someone in the cab who I had completely forgotten about. To make matters worse I didnt know where I was at. Night after night it was like that. I carried a gun till I discovered it didnt shoot, then I started carrying a camera. A 35 mm Minolta. I pushed Tri-x film to 3200 ASA. I eventually shot 32 rolls of 36 exp. This became my first book, TAXI TIMES a photo documentary of night time cab driving. I also wrote down story after story. The characters I met and the situations I became involved in were endless. They weave a fascinating tale of the human condition that Mark Twain would love. Im fond of saying, everything you ever heard about those people out there, the sex, the drugs, the violence....its all true and the some. Ive also said there are three kinds of people there; artist actors and illegal aliens. Did I mention whores. Lots and lots of whores. People often ask if I came across anybody famous. Heres a clue, Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America. Whos that? Walter Winchell outside the Cocanut Grove. The girl who danced with Michael Jackson in the thriller video, Lola Rae. Had her in the cab a couple of times. The first time she was crying because her Iranian boyfriend wouldnt marry her as fast as she wanted. I came across Rod Stewart one night and didnt even know it was him. Id taken a call in Beverly Hills. Someone let me in a gate. He went inside. I turned around and parked. Soon a little blond haired guy comes out and asks me how much to go somewhere. He goes back inside and pretty soon some girls come out and get in the cab. The following week I get another call for the same address. This time its the guy who let me in the first time. He was to going to a see and be seen spot. I asked him who lives there. That was Rod Stewart who came out and asked me how much. I think but Im not sure I had a very drunk Burt Bacherach in the back once. For every real actor that got in there were many who were wanna bes and they had a captive audience the driver. Two actors meet in Hollywood. One asks the other wh
Hollywood Incoherent
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Author : Todd Berliner
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Hollywood Incoherent written by Todd Berliner and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Performing Arts categories.
"Most books about American film in the 1970s tell stories about iconoclastic auteurs working in the shadow of the Vietnam War. Stepping away from this tradition, Todd Berliner gives us a bold and compelling study of the strange, paradoxical narrative style of seventies films, which seemed to flout the canonical structure of the well-made film. Berliner sheds new light on a well-studied period. His lively prose and the delight he takes in explicaring the classics of that era make this book a real pleasure to read."---Stephen Prince, Professor of Cinema at Virginia Tech and author of Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism "The wave of innovative filmmaking that surged in 1970s Hollywood has come to be cherished as dearly by many cineastes as the earlier `golden age' of studio filmmaking. American filmmaking of this period has been much discussed in relation to the crisis of the film industry and the sociopolitical currents of the time, Todd Berliner's important study focuses on what is usually taken for granted in such work: the form, texture, and tone of the films themselves, and the experiences that they create for spectators. His exacting and wide-ranging study explores the interplay between narrative unity and `incongruity,' as it is manifested in different ways in acknowledged classics directed by Coppola, Friedkin, Scorsese, and Cassavetes, as well as in many less well-known films. Berliner also shows how these films have had a lasting impact on Hollywood filmmaking. Hollywood Incoherent provides the sustained and systematic exploration of the aesthetics of the `Hollywood Renaissance' that the films deserve and the field of film studies needs."---Murray Smith, Professor of Film Studies, University of Kent
Hollywood S New Yorker
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Author : Marc Raymond
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2013-04-01
Hollywood S New Yorker written by Marc Raymond and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with Performing Arts categories.
A fresh look at the director’s career.
Hollywood S Last Golden Age
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Author : Jonathan Kirshner
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-15
Hollywood S Last Golden Age written by Jonathan Kirshner and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created an unprecedented opportunity for a new type of Hollywood movie, one that Jonathan Kirshner identifies as the "seventies film." In Hollywood's Last Golden Age, Kirshner shows the ways in which key films from this period—including Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Graduate, and Nashville, as well as underappreciated films such as The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Klute, and Night Moves—were important works of art in continuous dialogue with the political, social, personal, and philosophical issues of their times. These "seventies films" reflected the era's social and political upheavals: the civil rights movement, the domestic consequences of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, the end of the long postwar economic boom, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon Administration and Watergate. Hollywood films, in this brief, exceptional moment, embraced a new aesthetic and a new approach to storytelling, creating self-consciously gritty, character-driven explorations of moral and narrative ambiguity. Although the rise of the blockbuster in the second half of the 1970s largely ended Hollywood’s embrace of more challenging films, Kirshner argues that seventies filmmakers showed that it was possible to combine commercial entertainment with serious explorations of politics, society, and characters’ interior lives.
Taxi
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Author : Graham Russell Gao Hodges
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Taxi written by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with History categories.
Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.
Hollywood S African American Films
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Author : Ryan Jay Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2011
Hollywood S African American Films written by Ryan Jay Friedman and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Performing Arts categories.
In 1929 and 1930, during the Hollywood studios' conversion to synchronized-sound film production, white-controlled trade magazines and African American newspapers celebrated a "vogue" for "Negro films." "Hollywood's African American Films" argues that the movie business turned to black musical performance to both resolve technological and aesthetic problems introduced by the medium of "talking pictures" and, at the same time, to appeal to the white "Broadway" audience that patronized their most lucrative first-run theaters. Capitalizing on highbrow associations with white "slumming" in African American cabarets and on the cultural linkage between popular black musical styles and "natural" acoustics, studios produced a series of African American-cast and white-cast films featuring African American sequences. Ryan Jay Friedman asserts that these transitional films reflect contradictions within prevailing racial ideologies--arising most clearly in the movies' treatment of African American characters' decisions to migrate. Regardless of how the films represent these choices, they all prompt elaborate visual and narrative structures of containment that tend to highlight rather than suppress historical tensions surrounding African American social mobility, Jim Crow codes, and white exploitation of black labor.
Hollywood S 100 Leading Actresses
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Author : Hseham Amrahs
language : en
Publisher: Mahesh Dutt Sharma
Release Date : 2024-01-03
Hollywood S 100 Leading Actresses written by Hseham Amrahs and has been published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Hollywood 100 is a carefully curated list that spans generations, genres, and the ever-evolving landscape of the film industry. Each actress selected for this collection has not only graced the screen but has also left an indelible mark on the cultural zeitgeist. From the luminosity of the Golden Age to the dynamism of contemporary cinema, these women have transcended the screen, becoming beacons of inspiration for aspiring actors and audiences alike. Behind the glamour and glitz, each actress's journey is a tale of passion, perseverance, and the pursuit of excellence. Whether they emerged from humble beginnings or were born into the limelight, their stories are threaded with the common theme of dedication to their craft. From auditions that tested their mettle to roles that defined careers, these narratives unfold like a script, revealing the raw, unfiltered reality that exists behind the scenes.
Hollywood Movie Novels
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
Hollywood Movie Novels written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) categories.
Hollywood S Italian American Filmmakers
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Author : Jonathan J. Cavallero
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2011-05-17
Hollywood S Italian American Filmmakers written by Jonathan J. Cavallero and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-17 with Performing Arts categories.
"[This book] explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American 'imagined community,' others have ignored or even denied their background . . . Cavallero's exploration of the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola,and Tarantino demonstrates how immigrant Italians fought prejudice, how later generations positioned themselves in relation to their predecessors, and how the American cinema, usually seen as a cultural instituion that works to assimlate, has also served as a forum where assimilation was resisted." -- Book cover.