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...Prince--alias the Kid, a Milwaukee post-adolescent with a decidedly un-Midwestern penchant for the badder things in life. Supposedly modeled after the friends' garage where the young Prince carried on his musical and sexual experiments, the Kid's room looks like Jodie Foster's den in Taxi Driver...
...indecipherable while about--it seems--patrimony, while "Endlessly Jealous" is yet another boring exposition of his marital squabbling. Meanwhile, 'Doin' the Things That We Want To" is a simplistic (albeit catchy) tribute to Sam Shephard and Martin Scorcese (but does Reed truly admire Travis Bickle, the tormented psychopath of Taxi Driver, for doing the things he wants...
...Farley, 69, owner of a local taxi company, had considered leaving Indianapolis. He has changed his mind. "This town is on the move," he says. "It's booming, and I ain't goin' nowhere; I'm gonna stay here and boom with...
...priest, perhaps, or even a Saudi businessman. All were undercover CIA agents. While the CIA was recruiting some 50 such Afghans in Europe, it was also, with help from the FBI, gathering a similar group in the U.S. Though most of the recruits were students, one was a Manhattan taxi driver, another a millworker from Ohio, a third a judo instructor from the Southwest...
DIED. Andy Kaufman, 35, quirky comedian who antagonized as many audiences as he delighted with his bizarre brand of humor; of lung cancer (although he was never a smoker); in Los Angeles. From 1978 to 1983, Kaufman played the childlike mechanic Latka Gravas on television's Taxi, but he was more celebrated for his stand-up acts and concert appearances in which he wrestled women, impersonated Elvis Presley and sleazy nightclub crooners, and sang the tedious camp song One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall almost all the way through. He seemed to relish putting audiences...