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Ishtar
(May, 1987)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (OOP)
(Ross, 1976)
The Devils
(Russell, 1974)
The Pirates of Penzance
(Papp/Leach, 1983)
The Fortune
(Nichols, 1975)
-30-
(Webb, 1959)
Betrayal
(Jones, 1983)
Play It As It Lays
(Perry, 1972)
The Outfit
(Flynn, 1973)
Alex in Wonderland
(Mazursky, 1969)
The Legend of Lylah Clare
(Aldrich, 1968)
In The Cool of the Day
(Stevens, 1963)
That Cold Day in the Park
(Altman, 1969)
Thumb Trippin'
(Masters, 1972)
Midas Run
(Kjellin, 1969)
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1973)
Brewster McCloud
(Altman, 1972)
Outcast of the Islands
(Reed, 1951)

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1930's-1950's
The Moon's Our Home
(Seiter, 1936)
Sh! The Octopus
(McGann, 1937)
The Mating Season
(Leisen, 1951)
Bad for Each Other
(Rapper, 1953)
The Phenix City Story
(Karlson, 1955)
Run of the Arrow
(Fuller, 1956)
House of Secrets
(Green, 1956)
Saint Joan
(Preminger, 1957)
Macabre
(Castle, 1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
(G. Douglas, 1958
Five Gates to Hell
(Clavell, 1959)
1960's
Key Witness
(Karlson, 1960)
Summer and Smoke
(Glenville, 1961)
The Chapman Report
(Cukor,1962)
Bachelor Flat
(Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu]
The L Shaped Room
(Forbes, 1963)
The Chalk Garden
(Neame, 1964)
A Thousand Clowns
(Coe, 1965)
You're a Big Boy Now
(Coppola, 1966)
The Whisperers
(Forbes, 1967)
Dark of the Sun
(Cardiff, 1968)
Skidoo
(Preminger, 1968)
Last Summer
(Perry, 1969)
The Comic
(C. Reiner, 1969)
1970-1974
The Revolutionary
(Williams, 1970)
The Landlord
(Ashby, 1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
(Perry, 1970)
Tropic of Cancer
(Strick, 1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Cates, 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Newman, 1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
(Turman, 1971)
The Music Lovers
(Russell, 1971)
Drive, He Said
(Nicholson, 1971)
The Steagle
(Sylbert, 1971)
The Last Movie
(Hopper, 1971)
Made For Each Other
(Bean, 1971)
The Day the Clown Cried
(Lewis, 1972)
Hickey & Boggs (OOP)
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
(Edwards, 1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Man on a Swing
(Perry, 1974)
Open Season
(Collinson, 1974)
The Tamarind Seed
(Edwards, 1974)
Law and Disorder
(Passer, 1974)
Homebodies
(Yust, 1974)
Stardust
(Apted, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
(Rivette, 1974)
1975-1979
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Richards, 1975
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1975)
Hearts of the West
(Zieff, 1975)
Welcome to L.A.
(Rudolph, 1976)
W.C. Fields and Me
(Hiller, 1976)
Citizens Band
(Demme, 1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Aldrich, 1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(Brooks, 1977)
Girlfriends
(Weill, 1978)
Movie Movie
(Donen, 1978)
The Medusa Touch
(Gold, 1978)
American Hot Wax
(Mutrux, 1978)
Hot Stuff
(DeLuise, 1979)
Scavenger Hunt
(Schultz , 1979)
Players
(Harvey, 1979)
Rich Kids
(Young, 1979)
Nightwing
(Hiller, 1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night
(Wilson, 1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
(Katselas, 1979
1980's
Resurrection
(Petrie, 1980)
The Awakening
(Newell, 1980)
Simon
(Brickman, 1980)
God's Angry Man
(Herzog, 1980)
Fast-Walking
(Harris, 1982)
Twice Upon a Time
(Korty & Swenson, 1983)
Trouble in Mind
(Rudolph, 1985)
When the Wind Blows
(Murikami, 1986)
Housekeeping
(Forsyth, 1987)
The Glass Menagerie
(Newman, 1987)
Patty Hearst
(Schrader, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers
(Greenaway, 1988)
Haunted Summer
(Passer, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
(Spheeris, 1988)
1990's
Old Times
(Curtis, 1991)
Prospero's Books
(Greenaway, 1991)
City of Hope
(Sayles, 1991)
The Baby of Macon
(Greenaway, 1993)
King of the Hill
(Soderbergh, 1993)
Dadetown
(Hexter, 1995)
SubUrbia
(Linklater, 1997)

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Outside of journalism my favorite all-time job was driving a Checker Cab in Boston, when I was in my early 20s. I always came home with fresh cash and learned something new every day. I met several pretty girls. I was once punched and spit on by biker psychopaths after I flipped them off after refusing to pick them up. I found a wallet in the back seat with no ID and about $400 in cash -- a heavy sum in the '70s. It was more or less one interesting episode after another.

From the Robert DeNiro Film Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Austin.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 29, 2009 at 1:17 PM

comment #1

rr3333 says ...

My wife's uncle was a hack when he first came to this country. He got held up a bunch of times, which sort of, kind of, takes the 'glamour' out of the profession.

Why the DeNiro hack license pic? No Jeff, you cant be considered to be in the sequel to 'Taxi Driver'. Shia LeBouf will be the new 'Bickle'.

Posted by rr3333 at April 29, 2009 1:36 PM

comment #2

MilkMan says ...

FARE: 11th street between 3rd and 2nd, please.
DE NIRO: Excuse me?
FARE: 11th between 3rd and 2nd.
DE NIRO: That's what I thought you said. That's what you said, right?
FARE: Yeah.
DE NIRO: That's what I thought.
FARE: Could you avoid Washington Square, though, please?
DE NIRO: I can do whatever you want me to do. You know why? Because I'm a device for recording the effects and results obtained by various techniques.
FARE: What was that?
DE NIRO: I said I love that Philadelphia sound. You want me to turn the music down?
FARE: No. It's fine.
DE NIRO: I can take you whichever way you want. You want me to go fast, I'll go fast. You want me to go slow, I'll go slow.
FARE: Can you slow down, please?
DE NIRO: This is my first night on the job.
FARE: Really.
DE NIRO: You want to know what I was doing before this?
FARE: Okay.
DE NIRO: Nothing.
FARE: You really are driving kind of fast.
DE NIRO: You think I'm driving too fast, but trust me, I'm not. I'm not driving too fast.
FARE: Yes, you are.
DE NIRO: No I'm not. No, I'm not. No, I am not.
FARE: Make a right here, please.
DE NIRO: Okay.
FARE: You just made a left.
DE NIRO: That's what you said.
FARE: I asked you to make a right.
DE NIRO: That's not what you said.
FARE: Yes, it is.
DE NIRO: It is not. No.
FARE: I asked you to make a right.
DE NIRO: Where are you from? You from here?
FARE: Yes.
DE NIRO: No, you're not.
FARE: Are you?
DE NIRO: Nope.
FARE: Where are you from?
DE NIRO: I don't think that's any of your business.

Posted by MilkMan at April 29, 2009 2:08 PM

comment #3

mccool says ...

Ed Burns in 'She's the One' springs to mind...

Posted by mccool at April 29, 2009 4:51 PM

comment #4

Kristopher Tapley says ...

Driving a cab, that would rock. Closest I came was pizza delivery guy.

Posted by Kristopher Tapley at April 29, 2009 6:44 PM

comment #5

Wes Caline says ...

DE NIRO: I can take you whichever way you want. You want me to go fast, I'll go fast. You want me to go slow, I'll go slow.
FARE: Can you slow down, please?

priceless.

Posted by Wes Caline at April 29, 2009 7:48 PM

comment #6