{"id":2236,"date":"2026-10-23T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:09:02","slug":"taxis-marilu-henner-hailed-a-cab-and-rode-it-all-the-way-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Taxi’s Marilu Henner hailed a cab and rode it all the way to success"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marilu Henner is known for her role as Elaine Nardo, a single mother who worked as a cabby and aspired to be an artist, on the series Taxi\u00a0<\/em>(1978-1983).<\/p>\n

She was the only <\/em>female cabby on Taxi<\/em>\u00a0and a good one too\u2014especially while dealing with the likes of Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsch), Bobby Wheeler (Jeff Conaway) and Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito). It takes a strong woman to tackle the New York cabby lifestyle.<\/p>\n

She was undoubtedly good at her job as both an actress and a cab driver. She was so good that in 1979, New York cabbies lined up to meet Henner in person on the first day of Spring.<\/p>\n

Taxi\u00a0<\/em>had more to offer than your average sitcom; It resonated with viewers all over the country, and especially with drivers. Cabbies from all over New York, who go at heart-pounding speeds to get city residents to their destinations, met with Henner.<\/p>\n

According to a 1979 interview with Sunday News<\/em>, the cabbies spoke from their hearts as they praised her accurate portrayal in the show. Henner met the cabbies at their home turf, the Belmore Cafeteria, a famous New York taxi hangout established 50 years before the interview.<\/p>\n

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Besides their praises, gifts and a few tips for Henner, the cabbies also had a very special gift to give as a token of their appreciation: Hack License No. 182621. A hack license is a license to drive a taxi or passenger car for hire. Henner said the meet-and-greet seemed more like a warm reunion than it did the first introduction with the fans.<\/p>\n

In another 1979 interview with The Central New Jersey Home News, Taxi<\/em> director James Burrows said Taxi<\/em> was out to prove a lesson audiences had already started to learn in M*A*S*H<\/em>: being sensitive is in.<\/p>\n

“Taxi is not the kind of show that has jokes in it,” Burrows said. “We don’t believe in set-ups and one-liners. What we’re celebrating here is a story about real life and real people and, of course, life has plenty of funny moments. You’ll never catch us doing joke-joke-joke without any reason.”<\/p>\n

The producers, who also worked on The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em> and Rhoda<\/em>, said they structured the sets of Taxi <\/em>so that the story ideas could be expanded on each week. This allowed the characters to have a more natural character development. Most typical sitcoms had a standard number of sets, Taxi had only a few, which allowed everyone to have a tremendous amount of freedom.<\/p>\n

According to the article, many cab drivers related to the show and its characters. Specifically, they resonated with Elaine Nardo and Danny DeVito’s character, Louie De Palma.<\/p>\n

Henner enjoyed the feeling of family on Taxi, <\/em>but the sense of family expanded much further than she imagined. Cabbies everywhere felt connected to Taxi\u00a0<\/em>and became a second family to Henner.<\/p>\n

“I think what makes the show great is the feeling we all have each other,” Henner said. “We have such a good feeling for each other, and it carries through the air.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marilu Henner is known for her role as Elaine Nardo, a single mother who worked as a cabby and aspired to be an artist, on the series Taxi\u00a0(1978-1983). She was the only female cabby on Taxi\u00a0and a good one too\u2014especially while dealing with the likes of Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsch), Bobby Wheeler (Jeff Conaway) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chua-phan-loai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}