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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Like its leading male character, A Streetcar Named Desire is an unstoppable juggernaut. Firmly planted among the top 100 films of all time no matter who you ask, the picture is widely considered the best adaptation of theater ever committed to celluloid. It won four of its 12 Academy Award nominations, and should have won more. All that hoopla…yet the film lives up to it.
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Brando wore one, famously, in A Streetcar Named Desire. Now everybody's doing it. More than one billion T-shirts were produced in the United States last year alone, making the simple T the all-Amer(keep on reading)
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A Streetcar Named Desire appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.33:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions. Note that the movie is presented in its original aspect ratio. The DVD incorrectly indicates that the picture has been “modified” to fit the TV screen, but that’s wrong; Streetcar was shot 1.33:1 and the DVD shows the appropriate image.
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The last Desire streetcar ran the line on May 30, 1948, to be replaced by a Bus Line ... named Desire. Plans have been drafted by the Regional Transit Authority to replace the large buses running the line today with a mini bus and later by a streetcar in a comprehensive transit improvement plan. Funding to begin this project was included in the U. S. Transportation Department's FY97 budget, and the preliminary study is underway.
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Raleigh Little Theatre presents A Streetcar Named Desire Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 23-26, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 27, at 3 p.m. on the Sutton Main Stage, 301 Pogue St., Raleigh. $13-$19, except $11 students/seniors Oct. 13. 821-3111.
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A Streetcar Named Desire is so popular that it was among Warner's earliest DVD releases. Like the previous DVD, this one contains the reinserted footage removed at the 11th hour behest of the Legion of Decency. Unlike the previous release, this one has spiffed-up video and a second disc worth of extras.
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