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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...