There are some classic movies that seem never to get old, no matter how much time has passed since its premiere. With an iconic line like ‘You talkin’ to me,’ Robert De Niro’s scene of Taxi Driver is ...

Robert De Niro improvised his famous “You talkin’ to me?” line from Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, the director shared this week. In the film, De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, imagines a ...

It’s clear from the unprintable-in-a-newspaper opening line of “You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English” (Oxford University Press, $19.95) that Stony Brook University assistant ...

In television, 40 people behind the scenes make you look like a genius. There’s a script. There’s staff. There’s a TelePrompTer. And if that’s not enough, there’s a little man talking in your earpiece ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Brian Abrams, the author behind well-regarded oral histories of Late Night With David Letterman, Gawker, and Die Hard, is back with You Talkin’ To Me: The Definitive ...

For people all over France, the socially approved accent for speaking French comes from Paris by way of news broadcasts and other cultural emanations. In Britain, the equivalent way of speaking comes ...