Guy walks into a bar … sees the rest of ‘Rabbit, Run’

Guy walks into a bar … sees the rest of ‘Rabbit, Run’

Serendipity is not only a long word that’s easy to spell — it’s a real phenomenon. (And no, I’m not paid by the syllable.) The following is based on true events. A couple of weeks ago in this space, I wrote about watching “Rabbit, Run” on DVD decades after reading the first two novels in John Updike’s famous Rabbit tetralogy. I had low expectations for the 1970 film starring James Caan. How could Updike’s prose translate to the screen? Still, I …