John Cheever...

I find it extremely funny that Seinfeld and Co would choose of all people John Cheever as the author who they would pick on to have a homosexual affair with the father of George's girlfriend. Cheever is actually a pretty good author whose works include the short stories "The Swimmer," a story about an alcoholic, and "Reunion," a story about the rocky relationship between an alcoholic father and his on. Sense a pattern? Anyway, you might have read these in high school. My question is, who can anyone slander a person so badly on television (even if he is dead!) Aren't there going to be some sort of repurcussions from Cheever's family? hmmm....

Cheever is pretty well known as a homosexual. The New Yorker printed some of his journal entries (last year I think) that were full of stuff very similar to the letter read on the show. To the best of my knowledge, he was pretty up-front about it.

Besides, why would it necessarily be slander to recognize that someone is/was gay? (:

Chris

In one of the Seinfeld shows, the theme of a straight being mistaken as gay is explored. While Jerry and George are uncomfortable, they never treat it as slanderous.

In the last year or two, Cheever's daughter published a memoir in which she revealed Cheever's long time homosexuality. This revelation has been a hot topic for some time. I suspect that the reference to this went past most of the Seinfeld viewers. It does suggest that