Taxi on
Cab onand I have eaten something on the bandwagon? Trains? Would it be the same on the railroad?? if it were a taxi? these terrible praetorians.... Eating on the boat.
Been in a taxi/car (kind of cramped room to let in a group of 10 people). Hopefully I won't go too far, but it seems possible that if you remember a vehicle whose planks aim to carry a larger number of persons (ship, airplane, train), you have to use the magic preposition:ON My assumption is that the position could be changed if we think of larger automobiles specifically developed for a larger number of travelers.
The most exploited concept regarding the preposition ON, which unfortunately does not seem complete to me, makes us think either of a surface or of a space where an object is deposited. In short, what has just occurred to me is that such spaces as the train, the plane, etc. have their own boundaries where you walk, walk, etc., while you get into a car and immediately sit in the chair or one of the seats available in it.
Well, no say and no say. Let's see if my way of understanding this matter conveys a rational and logical concept.....
Behind the Scenes Facts about Taxis
In contrast to many sitcoms of his time, Taxi concentrated on a group of workmen who, despite their ambitions for a greater and better career, were never really meant to be anything other than what they were: taxi drivers." As the Mary Tyler Moore Show finished its seven-year run, co-founder James L. Brooks, along with David Davis, Ed.
Weinberger and Stan Daniels, all writers/producers with whom he worked on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. It was Brooks's brainchild to conceive of an assemble show in a New York taxi firm after he had read "Night Shifting for the Hip Fleet," an essay about a Greenwich Village taxi ride that appeared in New York Magazine in 1975.
TONYA DAZA WAS "DISCOVERED" IN THE RING. By the mid 70's "Tough" Tony Danzas was a pro fighter who was training at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn. So, the maker Larry Gordon and Joel Silver were at the chain one dark when Danza Billy hit Perez knockout and they invited Perez to audition for Walter Hills The Warriors, who produce them.
James L. Brooks phoned and asked him to look for the part of a fighter on his coming cab taxi comedy. "THE TONY BANTA" BEGAN AS "PHIL RYAN." "FOUR TH. THE PRODUCTS WANTED JUDD DEER, BUT DEER DIDN'T WANT A SERIE.
First and foremost Judd Hirsch was a playwright who had made some movies. He played in two successive Rhoda versions of the Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1977 and found that he didn't like working on TV. However, his agents approached him soon after his performance and told him that the taxi manufacturers really wanted him for the part of Alex Reiger in their new show.
He was afraid that the show would probably last at least three season and he didn't want to be engaged for that long; he wanted to be free to make theatre pieces and maybe movies. Said he was telling his agents to make the producer an offering they wouldn't accept...but to his amazement, they took it.
THEN DEVITO DEVITO TRIASH - JOINED THE LOUIE DE PALMA PART. Both Michael Douglas and Jack Nicholson told DeVito not to do TV when Joel Thurm, casting-director, asked Danny DeVito to speak for Taxi, because "it takes advantage of you. However, DeVito liked the taxi driver set and chose to switch to full "Louie" modes for his auditions.
" Fortunately, his indignation did pay off; the producer not only smiled at his opening game, they also smiled at each of his following remarks. ANNOUNCER: WELL, UH, UM, MANDY PATINKIN PREHEARSED FOR THE PART OF ALEX. Whilst Judd Hirsch was still indecisive, Broadway and movie actor and star mandy Matinkin was a candidate for the part of Alex Rieger; in fact, when Tony Danza spoke, he was reading with Matinkin, not Hirsch.
"7TH BOBBY WHEELER SHOULD ACTUALLY BE DARK-- Bobby Wheeler's emerging acting personality was initially conceived with a view to a dark one. Blazing Saddles's Cleavon Little was in serious confrontation over the role, and it finally depended on him and Jeff Conaway. The Conaway stood with the crew as a visitor in the Mary Tyler Moore Show with one leg in the other.
Conaway had the creator of the show in mind to play the naïve John Burns, but Conaway thought he was better for the Bobby characters and fought for the part. Finally he received a lecture with Judd Hirsch, which finally earned him the part. The taxi makers were admirers of Andy Kaufman's stand-up car and were eager to have his "Foreign Man" style (renamed Latka Gravas for the show) on the show.
KAUFMAN'S CONTRACT WAS FOR HIS ALT-EGO TONY CLIFTON TO HAVE A SEPERATE CONTRACT. 10. REVERSING JIM'S CRAZY CHARACTER WAS INITIALLY ASSIGNED TO TONY. As Tony Danza was recruited, the producer chose that he was more persuasive to play a young, somewhat naïve and innocent guy than a bewildered tumbler.
During the first campaign, the producer found that the two were too similar and their line was almost exchangeable. John Burns was announced after the first series and Christopher Lloyd, who performed the 1960' drugs victim, Reverend Jim Ignatowski, was added to the line-up to create the excentric stupidity initially planned for Tony Banta.
THE BOBBY: BOBBY WHEELER WAS DEPRECIATED AFTER JEFF CONAWAY WAS FIRED. Jeff Conaway in 2008 reported to the Calgary Herald that he left the show in 1981 because "they had disgraced me. "It is possible that Conaway's statement was painted by a phone call made two month ago by taxi author and manufacturer Sam Simon on Howard Stern's studio programme, where he described how he found Conaway, a known substance abuser, one night on the ground of his wardrobe that was too high to film.
He split his line between Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd without reducing the amount of smiles of the crowd as the producer realised that Bobby Wheeler was doable. In 2011 Conaway died at the tender age of 60. THAT' IS THYNY DANZAS WHO DRIVES THE TAXI IN THE LEAD.
It spins several episodes as the ending credits appear on the screen, giving the impression that a taxi is driving on an unending footbridge and is getting nowhere, much like the show's character. THE TAXI WAS NOT CANCELLED ONCE, BUT TWICE.