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...realistic movies of the past ten years--only coddled in a perverse way. The movies that would show us the seamy underside of America have usually spoken movingly in the vocabulary of a director's own peculiar vision. No one can deny Scorcese's genius, but how real is Taxi Driver? Mean Streets is realistic in the sense that it's harsh and gritty, but it's a victim of its own vision. Everything has to be hard-boiled, New York is a jungle. Life is a bitch. What passes for realism is more often than not a steamy fantasy...
This inability to move troops has been developing for a decade, mostly because the Air Force and Navy have given transport a low priority; neither service can summon much enthusiasm for providing a taxi service for the Army and Marines. The number of planes available to fly troops and equipment dropped by 258, nearly a quarter of the force, during the 1970s. The Military Air Transport Command had all it could do last fall to fly a mere 1,400 soldiers to Egypt for a training exercise, Operation Bright Star. The number of cargo ships fell by 297, nearly half...
DIED. Harry Chapin, 38, folk-rock singer and composer whose poignant, bittersweet ballads about dashed dreams and broken promises included the hits Taxi (1972), W.O.L.D. (1974) and The Cat's in the Cradle (1974); of injuries received when his car was struck by a trailer truck; in Jericho, N.Y. The son of Big Band Drummer James Chapin, he performed for a while during the '60s with a group whose other members were his father and Brothers Tom and Stephen. A social activist and crusader against world hunger, Chapin often organized and appeared in benefit concerts for environmental issues...
...smaller survey last fall included on its "least constructive" list ABC shows Taxi and Vega$ and CBS hits WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard. NBC, lowest in commercial competition, had five of the "top ten constructive" shows, including Quincy and Little House on the Prairie...
Private Benjamin, meet Meatballs. Bill Murray of Saturday Night Live, meet Harold Ramis, John Candy, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas of SCTV. Psycho from Taxi Driver, meet martial music from 1941. Tired moviegoer, meet tired moviemakers. And note: Murray, he of the choirboy face and pseudo-hip slouch, is convincing as a soldier who maneuvers his platoon into and out of World War III. Director Ivan Reitman is a canny merchant. He knows that the easy laughs are the surest, that teen-agers love to watch goofballs shape up without losing their shambling style, and that it doesn...