Television Crossover Universe

'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio' I covered William Shakespeare's Macbeth a little while ago, so on to Hamlet. 16th Century--HAMLET--The Mel Gibson version, yes, is the official version in the TVCU because Mel Gibson played the same role again on Sesame Street.   16th Century--HAMLET 2--Hamlet and Jesus have time travel adventures.  (Okay, this was a fake play within a comedy film, but I just had to include it.) 1897--THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT--This story features many characters in the afterlife including SHERLOCK HOLMES, HAMLET, SHYLOCK, LECOQ, HANKSHAW, MAN FRIDAY, PORTIA, JIM HAWKINS, OPHELIA, TRILBY, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, THE OLD SLEUTH, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and numerous other biblical and historical characters.   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 characte...

"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...