In 1992, actress Jessica Lange, who had virtually no stage experience took on Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Cheeks is the standout, a confident flibbertigibbet who regards himself as a modern Blanche DuBois, preening for the best Webcam angle.

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Previn's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, with a libretto by Philip Littell, returned for Thursday night's semistaged concert performance at Carnegie Hall with Renee Fleming, who sang Blanche Dubois at the San Francisco Opera's world premiere production.

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Unfortunately, the prospect of America's space program relying - like a fading superpower version of A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche DuBois - on the "kindness of strangers" is the inevitable result of programmatic decisions being taken by the Obama administration.

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For too long, those horses depended, like Blanche DuBois, on the kindness of strangers: strangers to bail them out of kill pens, strangers to write checks to organizations like the Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, Old Friends, CANTER, and ReRun, strangers to find an extra stall on their farms to take in a horse that nobody wants any more.

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