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DIED. KIM HUNTER, 79, actress best remembered for her visceral, sexually charged Oscar-winning portrayal of Stella in the movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she originated on Broadway with Marlon Brando; in New York City. Blacklisted in the 1950s, Hunter did not see her film career take off again until she donned a monkey suit to play a chimpanzee in Planet of the Apes (1968). "The only thing of me that came through was my eyeballs," she said. Still, she repeated the role in two sequels...
...DIED. KIM HUNTER, 79, American actress whose portrayal of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire won her an Oscar in 1951; in New York City. Hunter also appeared in three Planet of the Apes movies as chimpanzee psychiatrist Dr. Zira...
Nagasaki's best experiences are its surprises-like the kind stranger on a streetcar who invites me to dinner ("I have a daughter who studied English in Canada. Let me make you sushi!"). On my last Saturday in town, I am on my way to visit the Suwa Shinto Shrine when I hear the music of a parade. Two large drums, carried on the backs of robed festival participants, keep rhythm for a 20-person contingent. Men in suits and white-faced women in bright kimonos lead the procession down stone sidewalks, beginning the 168-step ascent to the three...
More than 50 years later, Ellsberg takes only a few seconds to recall his description of Marlon Brando as “a cannon rolling loose on the deck of a frigate” in the opening sentence of a review of A Streetcar Named Desire...
...original minds of the University. Running the risk of appearing overly fawning, one of my current professors, Elaine Scarry, embodies this ideal of reaching across disciplines. Professor Scarry can speak intelligently about Locke’s Second Treatise, and then apply her unique interpretation to Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire. She has written articles about the physics of electromagnetic radar and the crashing of planes. She sits on interdisciplinary initiatives like MBB. Professor Scarry may be an unusually talented individual, but there is no reason why we cannot all try to emulate her to some degree...