headlines. what is elusion and who s being fooled by the art? is it the artist or his audience or both? this city is like an open sewer. right through that last scene, i was loving taxi driver because up until that point, the relationship between de niro has been electric. gene was a natural. he was one of the people who could talk to the camera. he had a huge handlebar mustache, and i just said, that is a funny-looking thing on your face, get rid of it. i thought these two guys would never be on television. these are unusual, odd-looking characters for the median tv that s all beautifully clothed and beautiful teeth and everything s fine. and they dress like a couple of clowns if they wore these outfits today. you couldn t make siskel and ebert if you were dr. frankenstein. we both thought of ourselves as full service, one stop film
mustache, and i just said, that is a funny-looking thing on your face, get rid of it. i thought these two guys would never be on television. these are unusual, odd-looking characters for the median tv that s all beautifully clothed and beautiful teeth and everything s fine. and they dress like a couple of clowns if they wore these outfits today. you couldn t make siskel and ebert if you were dr. frankenstein. we both thought of ourselves as full service, one-stop film critics, we didn t see why the other one was necessary. alone together in an elevator, we would study the numbers, changing above the door. their lifestyles couldn t have been more different. roger was single. he was an only child. gene, in childhood lost both his parents, one after the other. he was a philosophy major at yale, while roger was, you know,