anchor: 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.
positive: Julia Sweeney's brother was ill.
negative: Julia Sweeney's brother was the epitome of health.