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Maynard School, Broadway and Windsor...
...EERY-BRIGHT LIGHT of the early November moon shines through the railing of a Windsor St. rooftop in South Boston. Down the street to the right, the water in Dorchester Bay lies painfully still, lit by the moon rays. To the right, a row of three-story houses stretches all the way up hill. On almost everyone of them hangs a red sign bearing the words "Leadership, Senator Bulger...
...creator Burns has suddenly become a star. The phone in his home in Walpole, N.H., has been ringing almost nonstop. When he drove into nearby Windsor, Vt., last Tuesday, people on a street corner cheered. "That doesn't happen to documentary filmmakers," he says. Though surprised at the outpouring, Burns finds it explicable. "I have a healthy respect for the power of the Civil War as a subject to command this kind of attention and emotion. It's our great traumatic event, and now we seem to be all collectively reliving...
...gags ("What's black and white and brown and looks good on a lawyer?" "A Doberman"); a couple of philosophical digressions ("Liquor, once you're hooked on it, is a hard habit to break. Like God, Henry thought . . ."); some manic riffs on fame ("That dumbbell the Duke of Windsor he threw in the sponge for a tart. You want the Duke and Duchess for a charity ball, you rent them like a tux from Tip-Top"); and the most furiously original cast of buccaneers, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and whackos north of Niagara Falls...
...Maynard School, Broadway and Windsor...