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MARE ISLAND — Travis Air Force Base played a prominent role during the Memorial Day event at the Mare Island Naval Cemetery, supplying the music and a fly-over that kicked off the hour-long commemoration at the newly refurbished site. Monday’s event was the 150th commemoration at Mare Island for Mem
--Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" It is the last line, "Well, I'm the only one here," that never gets quoted. It is the truest line in the film. Travis Bickle exists in "Taxi Driver" as a character with a desperate need to make some kind of contact somehow--to share or mimic the effortless social interaction he sees all around him, but does not participate in. The film can be seen as a series of his failed attempts to connect, every one of them hopelessly wrong. He asks a girl out on a date, and takes her to a porno movie. He sucks up to a political candidate, and ends by alarming him. He trie...
Sometimes overshadowed in his collaborations with Martin Scorcese, writer-director Paul Schrader was a singular voice of the New Hollywood generation who managed to define a style all his own and maintain an auteurist commitment to and repetition of themes spiritual, intellectual, and macabre within the context of the commercial film to present day. Raised in a fundamentalist Calvinist community in Grand Rapids, Michigan, film was forbidden throughout his childhood, and he relays his first film going experience at 17 as being a hallucinatory episode wrought with guilt and fear. But it didn’...
Earned her the death penalty. during that time, she was involved in numerous assaults on staff. >> rude dude with attitude. that's what they call me. the officers. >> in fact, travino told us she couldn't even remember how many times she had been tased. >> my whole back, i have, like, scars. this is a big one. this one's where i could put my finger -- see how big it is? i just didn't care. i was in here for the death penalty case. i didn't have nothing to lose. i mean, i have my family, don't get me wrong and my son and everything like that. but i just had that mentality. i was like, [ bleep ]...