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...Homecoming's plot is familiar by now: a college professor in America (Michael Jayston) brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to London to meet his family: a malevolent patriarch (Paul Rogers), a fey uncle (Cyril Cusack) and the patriarch's two unmarried sons-an aspiring boxer (Terence Rigby) and a seedily elegant hoodlum type (Ian Holm). The professor separates himself from his family and stands aside as his wife is drawn into it. It would seem that the men humiliate her, but she thrives on their abusive attentions. Indeed, by taunting and captivating each of them sexually...
...takes a great deal of cool passion to play Pinter; the performances here are never less than excellent and sometimes-in the cases of Merchant, Holm and Rogers-more than that...
...from a century-long heritage of mob violence in Boston. Discontent was rampant up and down the colonial seaboard after the British government granted the East India Company a monopoly on all tea exported to the American colonies; only in Boston did discontent manifest itself in violence. Boston's merchant class feared that the monopoly would, according to one patriot, "destroy every branch of our commerce, drain us all of our property, and wantonly leave us to perish by the thousands...
...Marines. Memorizing the eye chart in advance, he almost passed the eye test before his glass eye was noticed ("One eye didn't move, and they thought something was fishy"). The glass eye also kept him off the decks and out of the engine room in the merchant marine, so he signed on as a cook...
...went to Washington to offer himself to the CIA, but it was 1953, the McCarthy era, and after one look at his record, "the guy at the CIA laughed and told me to get the hell out of there." The union he had joined as a merchant-marine cook, it seems, was considered "pink," and then there was that trip to Communist Yugoslavia...