As she leaves for a hot date, she advises her friend Thelma with her personal motto:Always remember, honey.[Both of Martin Scorsese""s New York-based filmMean Streets (1973)andTaxi Driver (1976)owe their look to this uncompromising urban masterpiece.He gestures toward the owner""s cane-dagger and offers himself up as a male friend:You see, this way, you""ll have two friends.Then, Maine is able to cajole the reluctant studio head Oliver Niles (Charles Bickford) to listen to Vicki sing and she gets her big break.During his stiff entrance into the room, the boys tip off his hat with a wire, and humiliate the lenient novice by kicking it around on the floor and dirtying it.