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Wolfe's heroes are men who can be reckless in their commitments to professionalism, another name for courage. He has admired these types before, most fully in his portrait of Test Pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. In The Bonfire of the Vanities, the type is represented by a feisty old Jewish judge, an Irish criminal lawyer and an Irish investigator for the D.A.'s office. Wolfe pays conditional tribute to what he identifies as Celtic machismo, a refusal to back off from confrontations, and passes on the street theory that regardless of race or background, all members...
Seeing me, Chuck wearily raises his head. "Look at me, peasant," he says. "Look at my money. Look at my beautiful home. I am one of the richest men in the world. But do you think I'm happy...
...Chuck, Chuck, Chuck," I gently admonish him. "It's the '80s. A girl today's looking for a relationship that lets her breathe-express herself. She's looking for her man to love her right without holding her too tight-know what I mean...
...sing," he said last week. "It is my philosophy to sing what the people want." So people attending a Chuck Berry concert will hear the '50s jukebox blowin' the familiar fuses. Those who see Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll will find a musician who charms and exasperates. Those who read The Autobiography will have a great time inside the perpetual-motion mind of rock's prime performer. The devil is alive and well. And onstage or on the page, he still makes motorvating music...
Roll over, Beethoven; Chuck Berry, turning 61 but still supple and satanic, is reelin' and rockin' with a movie and an autobiography...