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Article: FILM: Where's Travis Bickle when you need him? The Assassination of Richard Nixon Niels Mueller 95 MINS, 15
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2005
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'They can rebuild the White House, but they will never forget me,'
says Sean Penn's would-be president-killer Sam Bicke in The
Assassination of Richard Nixon. In fact Byck, as he was really
called, was forgotten overnight, despite a botched attempt on Nixon's
life in 1974. Byck remains a strictly C-list name among American
political killers, although he had his moment as a featured role in
Steven Sondheim's musical Assassins. Never heard of Byck? Neither, by
all accounts, had Paul Schrader when he wrote the screenplay for Taxi
Driver " so any rhymes between Byck and Travis Bickle are strictly
coincidental.
Yet it's hard to get Taxi Driver out of your head when watching
The Assassination of ...
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