It's Thanksgiving time, so you think those wild turkeys would stay away tucked in the woods to protect themselves.

Warren Clements Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 5:42PM EST N othing gets an actor's or director's heart pumping as surely as live television drama.

Here's another review of A Stretcar Named Desire at Cypress Creek High School, this one written by a student from Freedom High: "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers," pipes Blanche DuBois as she is dragged away from her life of instability, lust and deception.

TENNESSEE Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically-acclaimed plays of the 20th century.

It's fun to watch talented actors' interpretations of characters familiar to so many.

Stella stands next to her sister Blanche, while Stanley, formally dressed, gets ready to speak to them.

Every time I hear the name Stella a specific image comes to mind: A gorgeous, young Marlon Brando clad in an old-fashioned undershirt, muscles glistening, screaming "Stella!" in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire." Stella also is the name Stephen Starr decided on when he opened his new pizzeria at Second and Lombard streets.

Maine Fast Fact : Maine raises 90% of North America's low-bush blueberries with 60,000 acres in production and producing about 74.5 million pounds a year.

Film history still thinks of Elia Kazan mostly as an actor's director. Not without good reason, of course, since the Greek-American director's movies gave us so many iconic performances, including Marlon Brando 's legendary turns in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront , as well as James Dean 's starring debut in East of Eden .

The Academy just announced that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin have accepted an offer from producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic to serve as co-hosts for March 7's Oscar ceremony.

TONY EASTLEY: Cate Blanchett has taken a cast of Australians to the US to perform an American masterpiece - A Streetcar Named Desire.

Cate Blanchett at the reception. IN AUSTRALIA, it's called going to the theatre.

Heath Ledger won a rareposthumous competitive Oscar for "The Dark Knight" in February.

Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson will topline a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller drama "A View From the Bridge," bowing at the Cort Theater later this season.

STEPHEN COLE Published on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct.

Theatre Northwest opened its brand new production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Oct.

Two-time EmmyA winner Alec Baldwin is returning for a second season as co-host of The Essentials on Turner Classic Movies .

Toronto takes a rare cinematic bow with screenings of films set right here at home, including rarities like Julian Roffman's The Bloody Brood from the 1950s, and David Cronenberg's Videodrome and Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing from the 1980s.

Opera fans have a special opportunity to hear one of the world's greatest sopranos when critically acclaimed vocalist Elizabeth Futral performs Sunday at North Central College in Naperville.

Think of white T-shirt , very easy Jiugen American cowboy or the blood and a tough guy minds.