Taxi Driver

 Taxi Driver

There is a lot of Cybil Sheperd in this film. Which I found disappointing  She seems to have been forgotten in the legend this film has made. I suppose everyone is overshadowed by Jodie Foster, and Robert De Niro. 

I have seen Travis talking into the mirror for decades.

I could'nt really engage with it. I started with high hopes Travis being a Vietnam veteran should be red meat for me. This just felt sleezy. Which is supposed too,  Cybil's  all American girl being taken to a Pnro cinema

I did wonder about the class dynamics.  

I am back in New York city again.. I don't like it 

I will say this film is fine. I am glad I have ticked the box. 

The French Connection

 

I saw this on BBC I-player

This is very much off it's time. Racial slurs abound.  The docker's union have to be paid off. When we see Marsielles it is a city of steps, and handcarts. You notice the cars are brightly coloured. Men wear suits. It is still cold. The Nightclub has a song about going to the moon. The club has a live band rather then electronic music 

The chase scene on the overpass is legendary.

It is interesting to see Marseilles, a city which I am not familar with. The French villian has a much younger mistress, he angles off his house

I did like Popeye

This seems to have created a lot of tropes. The upper class junkie, the undercover black police officer

The chases. Lots and lot of foot chases...

Na hINCIGH

 

Hayden Panettiere

 Hayden Lesley Panettiere

I loved Heroes, I loved Claire

August 21, 1989 – August 16, 2026

Mother, Anti Whaling activist, Autobiographer

Lima zoo

My daughter, and the flamenco

   This is an albino tiger, which is very rare- if it was not specifically bred by a collector

 

QPR V Fiorentina

A pre season friendly at Loftus Road. Fiorentina, who had the indignity of having their name spelled in correctly on the board, conceded, but went on to claw back two goals. 

During half time, parents and their children were invited to try their luck at a penalty 

There was a pro Palestine demonstration outside the Wormwod Scrubs HMP

Fiorentina did not bring so many, the Ground was not even half full

 

Mayo breaks the curse

I was in the Shanakee, the night Mayo won the All Ireland. The Green and Red of Mayo was played

The bar was full, one of the barmaids broke down, a legendary night