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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139087.The_Line_of_Beauty?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Line of Beauty" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172099924m/139087.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139087.The_Line_of_Beauty?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Line of Beauty</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15543.Alan_Hollinghurst">Alan Hollinghurst</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2147940?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br/> <br/>AWARD WINNING CAST REUNITED FOR 'THE LINE OF BEAUTY' ADAPTATION. <br/> <br/>(HOLLYWOOD, Nov 25, 2007) <br/> <br/>Academy Award winning producer Alan Ball announced today that he has reunited most of the cast of Six Feet Under for an HBO production of the award-winning English novel, "The Line of Beauty." <br/> <br/>The 12 episode mini-series will tell the story of Nick Guest ("David Fisher"), a young homosexual who has managed to con his way into the hearts and minds of the conservative Fedden clan -- ambitious US Senator Gerald Fedden ("George Sibley"), his Jew wife Rachel Fedden ("Margaret Chenowith"), young sexual deviant and manic-depressive Catherine (aka "Puss" or "Meowmers") Fedden ("Claire Fisher"), and Nick's Harvard classmate and muse, Toby Fedden ("Nate Fisher"). The Emmy-Award winning actress who played Ruth Fisher will rejoin her TV family in a role of comic relief as the batshit-insane matriarch Lady Partridge. <br/> <br/>The drama of Nick and the Feddens intertwines stories of secret love with political intrigue, translated into American English with gusto by the familiar ensemble cast -- including Nick's beloved black-and-stubbly Leo ("Keith Charles") and the Lebanese closeted coke-fiend Wani ("Billy Chenowith"); Wani's father, the also-closeted supermarket maven Bertrand ("Olivier Castro-Staal"); Catherine's boyfriends Russell ("Russell") and Jasper ("Gabe" aka 24's "Milo"); Gerald's totally hot secretary Penny Kent ("Brenda Chenowith"); the sexy and mysterious Brazilian caterer Tristao ("Rico Diaz"); and last-but-not-least, jolly queen and eventual congressman Polly Tompkins ("Arthur" aka The Office's "Dwight"). <br/> <br/>This American adaptation is cast in the suburbs of Washington DC, against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the emerging AIDS epidemic. Said Alan Ball: "I just really enjoy any story with the word 'Beauty' in the title." <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/134021?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>