REUNION.('The Boys of 2nd Street Park')(Television Program Review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 28-JUL-03

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Forty years ago, Steve Satin and Madelyne Klein fell in love on a roller coaster, the Coney Island Cyclone. Before long, they were Steve-and-Maddy, the golden couple of Lincoln High, where she sang in musicals and he was co-captain of the basketball team. Their plan was that she would support him through medical school by teaching and they would have two children and live in the suburbs.

Then the sixties went off like a bomb and blew them out of Brighton Beach forever. For their honeymoon, in 1971, Satin and Klein and four friends...

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