..He got cut up by some crazy f--ker.Cut half his ear off.It was at 122nd Street.Wizard: F---in"" Mau-Mau land.The two stories bring together the related connection between sex and violence in the routine world of the cabbie.[Note: In the same year,Planet of the Apes (1968)was given a Special Honorary Oscar for John Chambers"" outstanding, convincing makeup (there was no Best Makeup category until 1981) - the Academy members presumably didn""t realize the superior, too-believable makeup in the opening scenes of2001that included both human actors with life-like masks and infant chimpanzees.They are walking down the street, moving across the road where he car has stopped at the traffic light...He""s taking their souls, their spirits, and making the baby like him."Later that day, Alice described her insane fears to her skeptical and worried friend Yvonne: "Greta and Dan were there...then he""s still there."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The film was filled with horror-film cliches, such as spooky music (screeching violins similar toPsycho""s and Bernard Hermann""s soundtrack), false alarms, crazed characters, red herrings, dead phone lines, sex before death, cat-and-mouse style killings, premonitions of terror, subjective ("point-of-view") camera work stalkings, a terrific rainstorm, the concluding boo-moment (similar toCarrie (1976)), a Friday the 13th full-moon, etc.