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...head. One day, to the horror of the public, he was haled into court, half-blind and in a wheel chair, on the charge of misappropriating the Civil War Monuments Fund. For the second time in his life he was acquitted, amid roars of popular applause. "Your old grandpa is very ill," he wrote soon after to his favorite grandson, adding: "I see big clouds in Europe." Then, at 93, he died...
...screen play and the director obviously know a lot less about people than about the formulas of slick fiction. To believe in their characters, or to be moved by anything they do, you will have to be the kind of person who is charmed by hearing an improvident old grandpa (Charles Winninger) addressed innumerable times as "Grandfeathers"; or who can be convinced that a little boy, not trying to be smart-alecky, would say of a flower, "It stinks swell"; or who can be touched by the heavy-handed comedy and pathos lavished on a pet hen named Miss Easter...
...home because things are so different where they are. Sometimes they write apropos of nothing: "How I would like to be back at Virginia Beach in October's bright blue weather, to scruff through the flaming new fallen leaves with a gun under my arm." "I remember Grandpa's study with its old leather chair." Where They Went. War scattered them in all directions. It picked them up out of their home towns and set them down in the middle of North Africa ("all around are dusty and rocky small hills. A little grass grows but very little...
...Governor Saltonstall's great-great-grandpa "struck it rich in ... Chicago real estate before the 1820's." That's really getting in on the ground floor! But how and where did he find Chicago before...
...this might well have made Grandpa Longstreet a character to end all recollections of the Diamond Jim Brady-Stanford White-Harry K. Thaw-Anna Held era. But Nine Lives with Grandfather is not that good a book. At best, it is readable, escapist nonfiction, often amusing but seldom really funny. At worst, it is merely the sixth book in two years by 33-year-old Stephen Longstreet, a prolific writer who also operates under at least four pseudonyms and who draws almost as facilely as he writes...