Taki Taki

Taki: How the King of Greece taught me the origins of the F word… 

... and how I discovered a young, plump Jodie Foster leaning over a Xerox machine

Jodie Foster in 1977 (Photo: Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Getty)

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