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While Clinton is often associated with a show biz-like political style, Brown, all the way down to his turtlenecks and factory tours, likes to portray himself as the "ordinary citizen" candidate...
...about the light at the end of the tunnel of love. Forget all you have heard and read since Bruce Springsteen's two advance singles were released three weeks ago -- unless, of course, you listened to the songs, in which case you could ignore all the Charley Inside show-biz reporting about how radio stations were a little skeptical and record stores a little uncertain, and was Bruce, at 42, a family man with two kids, a little too settled and a little too wealthy and a little too out of touch to burn the house down...
Damn. Or hot damn, depending on your tolerance for show-biz artifice and nonspontaneous combustion. Brooks is a pretty fair songwriter and a hokey holy terror of a performer. He has a solid, pleasant voice -- short on character and totally short-changed on funk -- and he's possessed of a mean weather eye for the prevailing winds of showbiz. He went to Oklahoma State University on a partial athletic scholarship ("Athletics always kept me in school") and majored in advertising and marketing. That background, competitive and commercially calculated, gave him a cool edge when he was ready to make...
...because of costs that seem scandalous, sometimes because of controversies with pressure groups or the ratings board -- that it becomes difficult to evaluate them fairly when they appear. One looks so chic (and so inside) airily dismissing something like Ishtar or Hudson Hawk. What fun for critics and show-biz reporters. And so easy...
Every American family, scholars agree, originally came from somewhere else. No wonder that questing for one's origins, personal or ethnic, has become a booming subgenre of the book biz. This sprawling, elegantly written example of the type is by a previous chronicler of the New York Times (The Kingdom and the Power) and the sexual revolution (Thy Neighbor's Wife). Unto the Sons is only marginally autobiographical; in larger measure it is the story of the great wave of Italian immigration that began around the turn of the century, as filtered through one family's experience...