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The Television Crossover Universe Celebrates TOBY O'BRIEN!

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Toby O'Brien is not a post contributor.  But he is a member of the TVCU Crew. Toby O'Brien has his own website, Inner Toob, also known as the Toobworld Dynamic .  His website was one of three that inspired me to present my Television Crossover Universe to the world via this website. Toby joined In on our Facebook group from the beginning, and was very active in contributing to our discussions.  When the TVCU Crew was founded, I decided to name Toby as a founding member of the crew without inviting him to contribute, because he already had his hands full with his own very successful website. Toby's website has continued to be a extremely useful tool for my own research, and Toby himself continues to provide me with valuable information. Toby's website also participated in our April Fool's Day Crossover Event from a few years ago.  As James, Ivan and I posted about our fictional TVCU counterparts, Toby also posted that day about his fictional Toob World co...

Hey Stella! STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! A Streetcar Named Desire

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"In 1947, when  Marlon Brando  appeared on stage in a torn, sweaty T-shirt, there was an earthquake; and the male as sex object is still at our culture's center stage. In the age of Calvin Klein steaming hunks, it must be hard for  [kids today]  to realize that there was ever a time when a man was nothing but  a suit of clothes, a shirt and tie, shined leather shoes, and a gray, felt hat ." — Gore Vidal 1947--A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE-- Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.  IMDB, ever conflating minor characters, seems to think that the sailor from A Streetcar Named Desire is the same sailor (played over the decades by different actors) from  After Many Years  (1908),  His Wife's Sweethearts  (1910),  Dublin Dan  (1912),  A Healthy Neighborhood  (1913),  Midnight Madness  (1928),  The...