From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 6:08:00 PM UTC-8, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   > On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 17:52:06 -0800 (PST), Edward Jackson   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 4:30:47 PM UTC-8, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   > >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 18:58:18 -0500, moviePig    
   > >> wrote:   
   > >> >On 1/5/2023 6:29 PM, Edward Jackson wrote:   
   > >> >> Over Fucking rated   
   > >> >   
   > >> >It broke some Hollywood taboos. Doesn't have that punch today.   
   > >> Very relatable to those who knew the time and place. 1960s-1970s NYC.   
   > >>   
   > >> Times change, but it still has a certain intensity to it.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >Was NYC really like that then or was the writer and Hollywood just trying   
   to push the homosexual agenda   
   > I moved their in the early 1980s. Taught in public schools, and a   
   > business school very near Times Square.   
   >   
   > This was towards the end of the NYC scene you saw in "Midnight   
   > Cowboy", but 42nd Street and Times Square were as squalid as you saw   
   > in the film. I lived a fairly wild lifestyle in those days even   
   > thought I was a teacher. And I was young.   
   >   
   > Mayor Rudolph Giuliani became the mayor in 1994, and he started   
   > cleaning the area up. I had moved away in the late 1980s due to   
   > burnout.   
   >   
   > I don't know anything about the "homosexual agenda", but you could   
   > find whatever you wanted, and you didn't have to look too far.   
      
   The NYC that is portayed in TAXI DRIVER has also disappeared.   
      
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