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Last Tango in Paris 1 p.m., 5:15, 9:30; A Streetcar Named Desire...
...last, it's becoming just another movie. Seeing Last Tango on the double bill at Harvard Square, even with such a distinguished film as Streetcar, seems a lot like seeing a sensational former best seller as one more overstock stacked in mounds around a remainder bookstore. Last year the film seemed so alive, so intense, so involving. "Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park," I wrote, "rerunning the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and lifeless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly...
Hurok settled in Philadelphia, where he sold pots and pans, bundled newspapers, lost a job as a streetcar conductor because he could not pronounce the street names. He began going to concerts there, and liked them so much that when he moved to Brooklyn he decided to stage a few of his own. By 1915 he was regularly presenting such performers as Mischa Elman, Titta Ruffo and Alma Gluck in low-priced concerts at the old New York Hippodrome...
Woody Allen's new movie, Sleeper, will be all over the country by the time this column is printed, and it sounds amazing: Among other things, Allen plays Blanche opposite Diane Keaton's Stanley in a weird version of A Streetcar Named Desire; Allen wakes up (or, rather, is defrosted) 200 years in the future...
...Streetcar Named Desire is 25 years old, and it might cogently be argued that it ranks first among all plays written anywhere during that time. Like all great works of art, it has been internalized. It is part of our sensibility, part of the way in which we see, feel, know and think about life...