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- <text id=90TT1154>
- <title>
- May 07, 1990: American Notes:The Bronx
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 07, 1990 Dirty Words
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 37
- American Notes
- THE BRONX
- Imitation Of Life
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> As actor Tom Hanks, director Brian De Palma and their crew
- began filming The Bonfire of the Vanities, the Tom Wolfe novel
- that portrays the Bronx as a crime-ridden community, some
- residents complained that the movie would give the place a bad
- image. But not far from the movie action, a more terrifying,
- true-life drama was taking place: for the sixth time in seven
- weeks, a cabdriver was found dead on the streets.
- </p>
- <p> Police suspect that at least three of the murders were
- committed by the same man, who called for the cabs during the
- early-morning hours, shot the drivers in the head and took their
- cash. As far as local cabdrivers are concerned, the bad image
- of the Bronx will remain long after the Bonfire crew has gone.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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