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...Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), a former college and professional football player and Pat Haden, Rhodes scholar and a former professional quarterback, are tow others who have made a mark both on and off the playing field...
...Anthony Haden-Guest...
Rarely is a practicing journalist acquainted with all of the principals in a celebrated murder case, including the deceased. This unlikely coincidence fell into the lap of Author Anthony Haden-Guest in August 1978, when New York police arrested Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, a successful horse trainer and all-purpose entrepreneur, for the murder of a man named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side...
...jury later agreed. After escaping from the Brooklyn House of Detention for 40 days, Jacobson, then 49, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison. A lot of odd things, though, occurred between crime and punishment, and Haden-Guest was well positioned to observe and record them all. There is little suspense in Bad Dreams; even readers who have never heard of the Jacobson affair will have no trouble guessing the outcome. But the book is an exhaustive account of the after-effects of a murder: the grindingly slow legal process, the grief of the victim...
...associates. He had, in fact, once picked up $300,000 for helping a gang of old friends who smuggled hashish and marijuana through Kennedy Airport. None of these distractions before the trial could be traced to Jacobson directly, but those familiar with his icy intelligence and manipulative methods, including Haden-Guest, saw Buddy's touch in all of them...