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...Gone With the Wind; or Errol Flynn, who was charged twice with statutory rape, overpower a protesting heroine who then melts in his arms; or Stanley rape his sister-in-law Blanche du Bois while his wife is in the hospital giving birth to a child in A Streetcar Named Desire. Higher up the cultural food chain, young people can read of date rape in Homer or Jane Austen, watch it in Don Giovanni or Rigoletto...
...originated the role of Blanche DuBois in the 1947 production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and Broadway gave her the first of her three Tony Awards. (The other two were for The Gin Game and Foxfire.) But it was Vivien Leigh whom Hollywood later tapped to play poor, doomed Blanche in the screen version of Streetcar. Driving Miss Daisy has belatedly righted that old wrong. It has transformed Tandy into a movie star, and she is thrilled by the acclaim, which is even sweeter because it is so unexpected. "Oh, it's wonderful!" she exclaims. "It's just...
...city as we know it is obsolete. It is a 19th century product based on our 19th century ability to move people. Moving ideas and information then was more difficult, and the great inventions of the 19th century were the streetcar and the post office. Today we have an incredible ability to move ideas and information, but the movement of people is grinding to a standstill...
...billing to statehood, emphasizing instead the selection of the first U.S. Senators. "It was a surprise to us to learn how modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker...
...Streetcar Named Desire...