This inaugural episode of the Taxicab Confessions series, premiered on HBO in January 1995, and went on to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special. Far ahead of its time, this show allowed viewers to watch as unsuspecting cab riders in New York City revealed their most vulnerable sides. Memorable rides include an off-duty trauma cop who recounts scenes of death he has witnessed, a homeless man who explains his decline, and a young woman who talks about the joys of body piercing.
More personal lifestyles and secrets are revealed in this episode, including a pair of young women flirting with their bisexuality and each other, an outgoing African American body-builder who seems surprised that the cabbie even picked him up, and an AIDS victim coping with his impending death.
The people who appear in this episode, which premiered in August 1996, are as unpredictable, and often as outrageous, as the city where they live - New York. There's a foul-mouthed young woman who admits to having shot her boyfriend in a fit of rage; a cocaine addict struggling with his yearning for drugs, and a prostitute who claims she narrowly missed becoming the latest victim of a cab-driving serial killer.
In October 1997, HBO premiered Taxicab Confessions 4; the very first episode to take place in Las Vegas. The producers found more outrageous people in "Sin City". In this episode, a young man and his older girlfriend add to their list of "places they've done it" (a TC first!) and a sweet, sentimental veteran pilot of the Spanish Civil War who remembers losing his best friend.
This episode, which was the second in Las Vegas, premiered in July 1998. Sometimes heart wrenching, sometimes gut wrenching; the rides include a couple with a (very) open marriage and a down-and-out woman who explains how she turned to heroin and prostitution after losing one of her legs in a car accident.
In November 1999, HBO premiered another episode from Las Vegas. Rides included a 35-year-old woman who's still a virgin, a rock musician on his way home from a show with a beautiful groupie, and a man who proposes to his longtime girlfriend in the back of the cab, unaware that the moment is being preserved for all time.
A liberated female investment banker whose motto is "one man, many women." A retired embalmer looking for some live action on the Vegas strip. An adult-chat-room hostess with an all-too-normal sex life. A "plain old little simple transsexual call girl." In Las Vegas, stories of life, love and loss are as plentiful as slot machines, showgirls or Elvis impersonators.
A thrilled threesome proud of their liberated lifestyle. A pair of pals ready to take on some Vegas-style adventures. A sex-club siren with cross-sexual desires. An exotic dancer newly initiated into the porn industry. In Las Vegas, outrageous stories of love, life, and loss are always a sure bet.
A French cabaret singer who's determined to be a survivor. Two star-struck tourists who'll go to any length to meet a celebrity. A pair of female strippers in love headed for a drive-thru wedding. They might not be as romantic as Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, but the leading men and ladies who ride in our taxicab on a dark Las Vegas night have tales of life, love, lust and loss that are every bit as memorable.
A woman who is kinkier on her live sex website than with her fiancé, a stripper upset over the loss of her "sugardaddy" and a cheating boyfriend making amends with a marriage proposal. None of these Las Vegas taxicab passengers knew they were being taped by hidden cameras, so their conversations are uncensored, frank and deliciously revealing. Outrageous stories of love, life and loss are always a sure bet in Vegas as this hit documentary series antes up another all-new edition.
The 2005 edition of HBO's Emmy®-winning hit documentary series "Taxicab Confessions" returns to the streets of New York City for the first time after an eight-year hiatus. TAXICAB CONFESSIONS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK records more intimate nocturnal conversations with actual taxicab passengers - chronicling a disparate group of revelers, fetishists, romantics and lonely hearts as they spill their innermost secrets to anonymous cab drivers.
In the safety of a taxicab, under the cover of a New York City night, people are capable of saying and doing anything. The 12th edition of the Emmy-winning, smash-hit documentary series heads back to the familiar streets of the Big Apple to record more intimate nocturnal conversations with actual NYC taxicab passengers.
In The Best of Taxicab Confessions, a burned-out rescue-squad cop describes the horrors he’s seen. A young slacker cruising for hookers reveals his tragic family history. A woman on the verge of meltdown ominously recalls the time she shot her cheating boyfriend. Culled from the Emmy-winning HBO series, these are among the New York cab riders whose frequently startling conversations have been captured by Joe and Harry Gantz with hidden cameras. While watching these unwitting subjects spill their guts, voyeur’s guilt gives way to sheer fascination — and wonder at why they granted permission to the sneaky filmmakers.