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...efficacious. Cheever was born the son of a prosperous shoe-merchant and a strong minded Englishwoman, in Wollaston, Massachusetts, in 1912. Bad deals and the depression destroyed his father and left the family dependent on the mother's quaint foreign gift shop. Young John, whose successful older brother Fred had begun at Dartmouth, found himself associating with his embittered, self-pitying father, while his mother grew increasingly distant...
...book's most elucidating portraits is that given of the influential and psychologically loaded relationship that developed between John and Fred Cheever. After Fred graduated college, the two began living together in Boston, with Fred supporting his kid brother until the latter broke the ice as a writer. The attachment conjured up some pretty strong feelings for John, who soon felt compelled to cut the arrangement short. As Cheever later told his daughter, his love for his brother was the most complicated and powerful in his life: "When it became apparent that it was an ungainly closeness, I packed...
...wait for the vidco: it is not the stuff of which mini series are made. The sibling affairs here are delightfully foreign: not because they sprout in London but because they involve the separate affairs of Professor Vinnie Miner, an authority on English children rhymes, and Assistant Professor Fred Furner, who is in pursuit of tenure via the works of eighteenth century English poet John...
...Fred Furner--"a handsome, athletic-looking young man, the type that directors employ to battle carnivorous vegetables"-- finds himself matter-of-factly in love with BBC star Lady Rosemary Radley. The British Museum, his research on Poet Gay, his semi-estranged photographer wife back home, none of this can check his ecstatic infatuation. Never minding that he must soon return to teach summer school and never noticing "her assumption of a teasing impulsive intimacy which yet holds its victims at arm's length," Turner succumbs, willingly...
Ellis Island, the most ambitious network mini-series of the season thus far, starts out with a reasonable plan: to pluck four individuals from the huddled masses who came to these shores and tell their stories. Unfortunately, the seven-hour drama (based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart, who also had a hand in the teleplay) seems less interested in chronicling the immigrant experience than in salvaging the wretched refuse of scores of bad Hollywood movies...