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Meanwhile, at the Fly Club, another assemblage of students packs a hot room. This room is much bigger, however, and the crowd is larger. No 30-somethings or high-schoolers here: Khakis, Levis and button-down shirts prevail, and the keg of cheap beer gets much more attention than WHRB's keg of Sam Adams...
...upcoming TV ads, nerdish lab hounds, supposedly employed by the brewers at Miller, confront button-down corporate types, promoting the "drinkability" of their latest product. With unmistakable shyness they unveil . . . Miller Clear, the new beer that's as clear as water. As the stunned execs peer through a lucid flagon, so amazed that the hair on one turns white, an announcer proclaims, "To make a truly great beer-drinking beer, we had to do just one little thing" -- an innovation by that point transparently obvious...
...buys his clothes from The Andover Shop. Hewears striped, button-down oxford shirts alongwith the omni-present khaki chinos. Closer tohome, he's got his wedgy-prone tighty-whitey BVDsfor that extra measure of support. Slumped overhis skinny torso is a cardigan wool sweater...
Audiences typecast actors. They want to see Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone in shirt-off action movies, not button-down comedies. This summer Willis is playing a wreck revived (remember, ahem, The Bonfire of the Vanities?) in Death Becomes Her (July 31), a comedy about Americans' fear of aging. With Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as dueling harridans, the project suggests little appeal to kids. But director Robert Zemeckis promises broad laughs and dazzling special effects to keep everybody awake and amused...
Predictably, there was some immediate speculation from outsiders that the Nicholas ouster marked a final victory for the supposedly freewheeling Hollywood Warner Communications crowd over the reputedly more restrained, ! button-down old Time Inc. clique. "You have this group of Warner rowdies storming the gates of Rome," says a management consultant. "Just like the Visigoths made quick work of the Romans, the Warner people are quickly dispatching the remnants of the old Time...