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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the emotional intensity of William Faulkner, the eeriness of Edgar Allen Poe and some of the old-style manners of Margaret Mitchell, the film version of Tennessee Williams' smashing play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," won four Academy Awards in 1951. Today those non-descript Oscar figurines should be polished to their original sheen because perfection, impossibly enough, has been improved. Four minutes of charged dialogue, violent actions and a different ending have returned this film to the state Williams and director Elia Kazan originally intended...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Steamy "streetcar" Goes all the Way | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

Last Monday, Mark not his real name walked down Mass. Ave a couple of blocks toward Central Square and entered a nondescript office in non-descript building. A smiling receptionist offered him a candy heart and some forms, labeled "Donor Application...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Dollars for Sperm | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

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