Speak of the devil

John Updike

Prolific novelist John Updike has written a sequel to his 1984 novel, "The Witches of Eastwick," whose 1987 movie version starred Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer. The new novel, due out in October, is called "The Widows of Eastwick," in which Alexandra, Sukie, and Jane, now contemplating old age and sans husbands, return to the little town in Rhode Island, to ponder their youthful hell-raising and its aftereffects.

The movie was filmed mostly in Cohasset, and I well remember the Cohasset Savings Bank with its temporary sign, "Bank of Eastwick," as well as the scene filmed at the First Parish Church on the town green, with millions of feathers blown over the neighborhood. Perhaps the sequel will have its film counterpart. Cohasset is still a little bit of heaven.