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Article: Bonehead-O; 1.The original: De Niro as Travis Bickle 2.Mohawk: Bono revealed his new hairstyle.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2008
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Byline: Helen Bruce
WITH his new closely-cropped hairstyle, Bono looks more likely to ask You looking at me? than to sing one of his songs.
But here he is, looking a dead ringer for Robert De Niros character Travis Bickle in the 1976 film Taxi Driver.
Sporting his semi-skinhead, Vietnam war veteran-style, combined with a combat jacket and his trademark sunglasses, the U2 frontman looked as if he was paying homage to the De Niro character as he promoted a cookery show in New York.
He could, indeed, have come straight from his yellow cab in Manhattan, 30 years previously.
Nevertheless, the diminutive rock star and drop-the-debt ...