Last night on Wheel of Fortune, a contestant named Kevin suffered the indignity of a very public spelling mistake. Or did he? Okay, he did, but by accidentally suggesting that the letter K would finish the title of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Kevin also opened a door to a new, more wondrous world, in which high school students had to read A Streetcar Naked Desire in senior-year American lit, right after taking a midterm on its equally famous predecessor, The Ass Menagerie. Pat Sajak recovered from Kevin’s flub by joking, “I’d rather see Kevin’s play,†but haven’t we all already seen it, just with everyone wearing a bunch of stupid clothes?
