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...shooting of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr., 26, was a model of calm, impassive silence. That self-control was shattered last week when the jury was shown the videotaped testimony of Jodie Foster, 19, the actress turned college student whose 1976 film Taxi Driver sparked Hinckley's obsession with her and, according to his lawyers, drove him to shoot the President.* Hinckley, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, fidgeted throughout her testimony until Foster was asked, "How would you describe your relationship with John Hinckley?" With that, Hinckley abruptly stood...
Hinckley did, however, exhibit considerable emotion on a tape, released as evidence last week, that he made at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., on New Year's Eve 1980. By then he had become infatuated with Foster after seeing Taxi Driver as many as 15 times. In the movie, a crazed cabbie, played by Robert De Niro, sets out to assassinate a presidential candidate in an attempt to impress a child prostitute, played by Foster. Hinckley so identified with the film's anti-hero that he bought an Army fatigue jacket and took to drinking peach...
...pubs across the country, the WJM team had assembled to lament the untimely passing of some fine old friends: Louie De Palma, Doctor Johnny Fever, Detective Harris, Mork from Ork. With a few swipes of TV executives' pens, four of the best comedy series of the late 1970s-Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, Barney Miller, Mork & Mindy-had been erased from the prime-time schedule. Their ghosts would haunt reruns, but the message seemed clear: the era of the sophisticated sitcom was over. Thus it was fitting that the characters who had inhabited the Mary Tyler Moore show, first...
...Falklands. After a series of seemingly effortless British successes-the retaking of South Georgia Island, the bombing of the Falklands' airstrips and the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano-Argentines savored the notion that in destroying H.M.S. Sheffield they had evened the score. Declared a Buenos Aires taxi driver: "We're going to clobber the English so hard they'll know who the Argentines...
...timid child who became increasingly withdrawn as he grew up and finally retreated into a world of fantasies. Hinckley dropped in and out of college, went to Hollywood seeking instant success as a songwriter, created a mythical group called the American Front Organization. He became obsessed with the film Taxi Driver, the story of a loner who stalks a presidential candidate; Foster was featured as a child prostitute. After the murder of Lennon, Hinckley visited the Dakota apartment building in New York City and stood with a pistol in his pocket in the place where the former Beatle was killed...