General makes `MacArthur' worth viewing

From: The Boston Globe | Date: May 17, 1999| Author: John Koch, Globe Staff | Copyright information

MacARTHUR Produced and written by: Austin Hoyt Directed by: Austin Hoyt and Sarah Holt Narrated by: David Ogden Stiers On: WGBH-TV, Ch. 2 Date: Tonight and tomorrow, 9-11 p.m. Rating: PG-TV

Most Americans know something of General Douglas MacArthur. His line "I shall return" is chiseled into the national consciousness, as is his flamboyant image in braided cap smoking his outsized corncob pipe. MacArthur himself was outsized, literally and figuratively, a big, theatrical man with amb...