I had lunch recently with a friend who’s a film director. He asked if I remembered the movie The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster, from 1968. I said I hadn’t seen it. He started to describe the plot and I realized he was talking about the famous John Cheever story “The Swimmer,” or at least the movie based on the story.
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