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New tour offers glimpse of New Orleans movie sites

By: Stacey Plaisance, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP).- Sitting near the New Orleans streetcar line aboard a van equipped with video screens and a speaker system, tourists watch actress Vivien Leigh ride the city’s vintage electric rail vehicles in a scene from the 1951 film “A Streetcar Named Desire.” In the French Quarter, passengers look on as Bruce Willis escapes attackers outside a praline shop in the 2010 film “Red.” They also watch a young Kirsten Dunst bite into a woman’s neck in Jackson Square in one of her early roles as a bloodthirsty child vampire in 1994’s “Interview With a Vampire.” A new multimedia tour being offered in New Orleans takes passengers to locations where famous movie scenes were filmed and shows them a clip from the film on site. The tour also includes peeks at the New Orleans