He also designed the set for the 1991 television film "Brewster Place."

Their lives overlap while they are living in tenements on a walled-off street, a geographical and spiritual dead end named Brewster Place.

It's a good, positive image for the new Brewster Place.

That alone makes "Brewster Place" still another late-entry start is this suddenly lively television season.

The title, "The Women of Brewster Place," might have given him his first clue.

Trying to raise bail, Mattie loses her house and ends up on Brewster Place.

"The Men of Brewster Place" offers them not so much a sequel as a second chance.

In the end, it seems clear that the men of Brewster Place - and their book - need women to make sense of their lives.

The miniseries received such a good reception that it led to a weekly series entitled Brewster Place.

It also served as the location for the set of The Women of Brewster Place.