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EUGENE KENNEDY is a professor at Chicago's Loyola University and a biographer of the city's late political boss, Richard J. Daley Because of his background and the book's supposed subject--the rise of a Chicago female mayor to power--one expects Queen Bee to exhibit an insider's sophistication and cleverness Kennedy does have a good working knowledge of Chicago's city politics. It shows in his novel, which interrelates centers of city power realistically But that is just about the book's only redeeming quality...
Queen Bee, set in Chicago of the 1990's is essentially Harlequin Romance in city hall. The story traces Ann Marie O'Brien's quick rise to power in city politics, from the moment she impresses political boss Mayor Tom Cullen to her ascension to the mayoralty. She becomes a media star because of her tough, no-nonsense approach to city issues and outmaneuvers the corrupt aldermen whose interests she interferes with. Once she takes office, her television-commentator finance, Paul Michael Martin, engineers a deal with the most corrupt group of aldermen -to plead their case to his lover...
...sage who was an NBC vice president before joining the Playboy Cable Network. "He's very good at that. He should be doing it at NBC. Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there, it won't mean as much as it used...
Coach Taylor, who attended his alma mater's 4-3 triumph over Clarkson last Sunday at Bright, always speaks admiringly of his former boss's team. "I saw two very good teams last Sunday," he said yesterday. "Harvard's got probably the fastest skating team in the league...
Tommy himself did nothing in particular to mark the occasion; he opened up shop at 6:30 a.m. in his seven-day-a-week routine, served breakfast, and left in the early afternoon. But one five-year employee caught a hint of emotion when he watched his boss pose for photographers...