This is my first time honoring amazing things and I can not think of anything better to kick off this segment other than the opening credits to the TV show Taxi.
The beauty is it’s simplicity. A cab crossing the 59th Street Bridge with Manhattan in the background. It appears to be one steady shot, although they had to reedit it a bit to make it long enough to fit the entire credits (as proof of that notice the Citi-Corp Building stays in the same place throughout most of the clip). There is nothing fancy to it. It’s just perfect.
And the song is like a lullaby. The song wraps you up in a woodwind cocoon of jazzy longing for the past. And just to be watching the credits and to know that in a few short minutes you will be watching Marilu Henner in her heyday. You know how James Cameron says that he takes just one thing from each of the sets of his movies (he took the captains wheel in Titanic and that transporter machine from Avatar), I would go back and take Marilu Henner.
It all comes together perfectly. All except for one thing. Everybody knows that cabs don’t go to Brooklyn.
59th street bridge goes to Queens, not Brooklyn. And yes, cab go there.