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Repertory Gamut. For the past 16 years, however, he has managed to confine his energies to the Dallas Theater Center, where he has served as stagehand, ticket taker, director and actor, running the repertory gamut from Julius Caesar-he played Brutus-to A Streetcar Named Desire...
...Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche duBois fishes around for some bourbon to kill her jitters and pulls up with a bottle labeled "Southern Cheer." "How can that be?" she quips under her breath. You said it, Blanche--Southern gloom is the Williams world view, and you can fill yourself with three hours of it now at the Orson Welles...
...Streetcar remains classic, not so much for the vehicles provided in Blanche and Stanley Kowalski, but for the way Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando take personal possession of them. Only Leigh could have pulled off all those "I don't want realism, I want magic" lines with such charm. And Brando, in his first major role, delivers a lecture on the Napoleonic Code itself worth the price of admission. Neither role is burdened with too much realism; but, like Blanche, Williams works best with magic and myth. Or, to cop another duBois-ism, "50 per cent of this film...
...Streetcar Named Desire, 4 and 8:10, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
Nearly 30 years ago, Marlon Brando exploded on the Broadway stage as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Since then he has become the leading movie actor of his generation. Some of his films have been good; more have been awful. No matter. Audiences could always count on Brando for performances that were surprising, overwhelming in their power, sometimes perversely idiosyncratic-his foppish Mr. Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty, for example. At the very least, there was always an unforgettable moment or two, like the garden scene in The Godfather in which he mugs for his grandchild. Brando...