Ms. Van Loan still dreams about driving a cab about twice a month, she said, recalling her most famous fares: a quiet Mikhail Baryshnikov, a flirtatious former mayor, John V. Lindsay, and the actor Denzel Washington, who appeared smaller in person than on screen, she said.
The video monitor in his office on lower Broadway blinks to life, and Harold Lloyd, as a giddy cabdriver distracted by a famous fare, takes Babe Ruth on a harrowing ride to Yankee Stadium in "Speedy" (1928).
The undersea adventure has referential bits to famous family fare; for instance, Dorsel resembles the Cowardly Lion.
An upgrade culture, a now culture, and a celebrity culture, where the endless partner-swapping of the rich and famous is staple fare, doesn't give much heft to the long-haul.
(Mr. Bass is, oddly, half of Rankin/Bass, the production team behind famous children's television fare like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer").
Christopher Street has long had a hopping bar scene, and Hudson Street, the main commercial drag, is rich in shops and restaurants like Sazerac House, popular for brunch, or the Cowgirl, famous for fried Texas fare.
In Manchester, Almost Famous burgers serves its fare in red plastic baskets in a venue hidden behind an unmarked, brown door.
The New Yorker, American weekly magazine, famous for its varied literary fare and humour.
Extravagant European fare full of famous names, it's showing now.
THE PLAYLIST The playlist happily forgoes Austrian waltzes and the film's famous soundtrack for comfortable pop fare.
The Kitchin will open in the summer and will be operated by the Eatery (53rd St and 9th Ave), the Hell's Kitchen institution famous for its contemporary American fare.
