Even Basinger's hair can't save 'Chair' (Boston Globe)

By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | September 9, 2006 In Lifetime's ``The Mermaid Chair," midlife crisis never seemed so ``Thorn Birds." Instead of buying a nice little red corvette, Jessie Sullivan goes and gets herself a nice hot Benedictine monk-in-training. And this particular man of God comes fully equipped with a pair of smoldering eyes, not to mention a robe of many muscles. Look people, Jessie's tormented mother is cutting off her own fingers, her husband is nice but boring, and her daughter ...