Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2009 February 19 • Thursday

Who Killed Teddy Bear and Taxi Driver have a few things in common, both being New York City stories of an obsessive stalker who enjoys exercise and pornography.

Michael Chapman also worked on both movies, as cinematographer on Taxi Driver and assistant cameraman on Teddy Bear.

In one scene in Who Killed Teddy Bear Sal Mineo goes to a porn shop to browse the books and magazines.

In addition to this titillating fare, the shop has books like The Group, Naked Lunch, Last Exit to Brooklyn, some Henry Miller and so on.

This was my favorite juxtaposition:

New York is so vanilla now, you couldn't get away with displaying Webster's in a window like that.