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...Tom Vanderbilt Knopf; 402 pages...
...like The Apartment or John Cheever's Wasp-character-study stories. In Mad Men, the boomers are a market for Clearasil or the children of the Drapers and their friends, largely unseen and unheard. (In a new episode, Don instructs his grade-school-age daughter how to mix a Tom Collins for guests...
Like the patriots last year being undefeated, Tom Brady doing what he does, Peyton Manning and the Colts, San Diego Chargers coming along under Norv Turner, Dallas Cowboys last year I can see that they?re going in the right direction...
...enough to get this down right. Isn't, though, because somebody forgot to hire a story editor. The incidents in a comedy-thriller can be implausible but never absurd, and Legal Eagles is pocked with absurdities. Trapped in a warehouse about to be blown to shards, klutzy Assistant D.A. Tom Logan (Redford) and plucky Lawyer Laura Kelly (Winger) find a forklift tractor (and the keys), jump on, start it and crash through a metal door, all in five seconds. Logan, who has made tabloid headlines by being caught in bed with a spacey artist (Daryl Hannah) the night...
...first time in two years and took the crowd's breath away with Roxanne and Message in a Bottle. In Los Angeles, Live Aid's Bob Geldof, still blissfully unaware that he was about to be named a Knight of the British Empire, made a surprise appearance with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. (Don't call him Sir Bob, please. Because he is not British, he'll just be Mr. Geldof, Boomtown Rat, K.B.E.) But at almost every concert the fans belonged to U2, as Bono and The Edge ripped out New Year's Day and Sunday, Bloody Sunday. The girls...