text: Julia Sweeney chose to take the story of her brother 's illness and hers to the stage and then the screen ; Pauline Kael made no such decision , which is why Rushmore director Wes Anderson 's New York Times account of visiting the retired New Yorker critic seemed an unseemly invasion of privacy .
  
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  Julia Sweeney 's brother was the epitome of health .