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...revival of recent years has been more eagerly anticipated than the pairing of movie stars Jessica Lange as the desperate, delusional Blanche DuBois and Alec Baldwin as her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, the feral hunk who rapes her in body and mind. From the moment they meet, there should be a sense of yearning and of doom, as when Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando legendarily created the roles. Alas, there are no sparks between the current team...
Baldwin, a fine actor in emotionally reserved roles, cannot summon enough of Stanley's musky sexual appeal or his apish brutality. His voice is too light, his features are too aristocratic. Above all, he cannot uncork the character's volcanic ego. The violent fits and howls are all there, yet feel calculated. Lange gives Blanche an initial strength that makes her breakdown all the more overpowering, and provides the few moments of real magic, describing the breakup of her family home and her hopeless marriage to a closeted homosexual. These scenes, however, are with Amy Madigan, able if stolid...
Theater is particularly effective in communicating the ambiguities involved in the question of sexual consent versus sexual acquiescence. Rasminsky juxtaposes two versions of the scene in A Streetcar Named Desire in which Stanley carries Blanche off to bed, the first version as a seduction, the second as a rape: the dialogue in both versions is identical, suggesting that the question of literal consent remains problematic. Raz contends that popular culture pretends that consent is not problematic: "Stanley is a big bad hero, infamously protrayed by Marlon Brando. But a lot of our literary heroes depend on power and sexual control...
...best thing the Red Sox can do to assure the championship would be to retire the number of Bob Stanley who symbolizes everything about the team," Morell said...
...Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consultant); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Robert B. Stevens (Assistant Editors); Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David...