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336 pages, Paperback
First published July 5, 2011
The test screenings were SO GOOD, in fact, that we made what was (at the time) our BIGGEST PAYDAY EVER to write the sequel: Taxi 2. Yes, this is how crazy things in Hollywood can be. One of our biggest deals EVER was for Taxi 2—cue the silly punctuation marks!?!?!!?!?
Then, of course, Taxi was released, and not only did it pretty much end the film career of our friend Jimmy Fallon, it was also so WIDELY HATED that, for a while, it was held up as an example of EVERYTHING THAT SUCKS. Even people who actually suck balls for a living didn’t want to be compared with Taxi.
This is a very specific little detail that you’ve seen on movie posters a hundred times but maybe not noticed: the use of the ampersand symbol or the word “and.” There’s a BIG difference when & or and appears between writers’ names:
& means the two named writers worked TOGETHER, as a team (Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Lennon).
AND means that they very specifically DID NOT WORK TOGETHER, but have been forced to share credit (Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Lennon AND Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel).