(And don't forget to boo the villains. When Blanche Met Brando - Sam Staggs INTRODUCTION The Twelve Last Words of Blanche Not long ago I was on the subway in Manhattan headed from Chelsea to the Upper West Side when the door opened at one end of the car and a tall Jamaican man made his entrance. Exhaustively researched and almost flirtatiously opinionated, W hen Blanche Met Brando is everything a fan needs to know about the ground-breaking New York and London stage productions of Williams 'Streetcar' as well as the classic Brando/Leigh film. Even so, I hope you'll enjoy the fun parts and applaud the conga line of celebrities that you encounter along the way - some in starring roles, others as supporting players, still others glimpsed in cameos. SAM STAGGS is the author of five books, including four biographies of movies: All About All About Eve, Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard, When Blanche Met Brando. Perhaps you'll recall, in these pages, the vanished world of gay New York in the eighties, which began like a party where everyone danced until the decade segued into Ronald Reagan's horror show and ended like the Masque of the Red Death. You'll meet a cavalcade of mouth-watering models, top-notch photographers, illustrators, writers, a scattering of wannabes.and a possible serial killer. Exhaustively researched and almost flirtatiously opinionated, When Blanche Met Brando is everything a fan needs to know about the ground-breaking New York and London stage productions of Williams 'Streetcar' as well as the classic Brando/Leigh film. Along the way you'll hear voices roar in razor-tongued combat, boisterous laughter, brouhaha and gossip in our offices at Modernismo Publications on the eleventh floor at 155 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.

When Blanche Met Brando by Sam Staggs