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...Streetcar Named Desire. By Tennessee Williams. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $5 for students...
...Streetcar Named Desire. By Tennessee Williams. Agassiz Theatre, 2 and 8 p.m. $5 for students...
Those were Tandy's final steps on the stage. Her death last week marked the end of a grand procession of characters she created by inhabiting them. This London-born actress's signature roles, as Blanche du Bois in the original 1947 production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and as Daisy Werthan in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy, were both mid-century Southern belles. They were also polar opposites: a woman plummeting from nymphomania into dementia; a lady struggling to balance propriety and humanity. For Streetcar she won the first of three Tonys (the others were...
...friends, and oh, his foes, he gave a lovely light! In works like A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, Brando mobilized a raw and unprecedented behavioral truthfulness; heedlessly, he challenged the blandness and piety of the times. If you were young with pretensions to hipness, he seemed to speak your thoughts. And he drove the old Eisenhower crowd nuts. But what we read then as rebelliousness was really confusion. Brando had a stern, cold father and a dream-disheveled mother -- both alcoholics, both sexually promiscuous -- and he encompassed both their natures without resolving the conflict. Elia Kazan...
...family of underachievers, the Simpsons have achieved quite a bit. In the show, Homer has been a monorail conductor and a baseball mascot; he won a Grammy (for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word or Barbershop Album) and survived eating a deadly blowfish. Marge sang Blanche Dubois in the musical O Streetcar! Lisa created her own talking doll, mastered the saxophone and the Talmud, was a Junior Miss Springfield, uncovered political corruption and saved the Republic. Bart adopted an elephant, fell down a well and was rescued by Sting, and was tried for murdering Principal Skinner. Maggie had her first word voiced...