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...style fiction of the '80s. Bright Lights has sold 300,000 copies; it was hailed as the modern Catcher in the Rye, has been filmed with Michael J. Fox and Phoebe Cates, and is a bit of instant folklore in the book industry. Published as a paperback original by Random House's Vintage Contemporaries series, McInerney's romp gave readers a fast look at a young man's entry-level Manhattan. Bright Lights also put a glamorous shine on Vintage's soft-cover format and helped similar ventures at Scribner's (Signature), Penguin (Contemporary American Fiction) and Bantam (New Fiction...
...ever read," says Gary Fisketjon, leaving the impression that even casual acquaintance with the novel (a 250- year-old art form) is unnecessary baggage in today's paper chase. Fisketjon, 33, McInerney's close friend at Williams College in the mid-'70s, pushed Bright Lights when he worked at Random House. He is now editorial director of Atlantic Monthly Press and, as yuppie-fiction's most visible impresario, a celebrity in his own right...
Michael Hutchence, lead singer of the band INXS is the movie's big draw. I shudder to think what the millions of love-sick teenagers who think Hutchence is a puppy-dog version of Mick Jagger are going to think when confronted with the constant onslaught of idiotic, random dialogue, offensive jokes and drug abuse and vomiting of Dogs In Space...
...brief sampler of some of the titles that have lined the shelves in the past five years: Men Who Can't Love (Evans; 1987); How to Love a Difficult Man (St. Martin's Press; 1987); Women Men Love, Women Men Leave (Clarkson Potter; 1987); Successful Women, Angry Men (Random House; 1987); Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them (Bantam; 1986); and the bluntest title of the lot, No Good Men (Simon & Schuster; 1983). Most are how- to books that advise women on dealing with the same troubling male shortcomings cited by the women in Hite's study...
...random poll of 15,000 people across the nation, conducted earlier this month, Dukakis recieved a 22 percent favorability rating. Fourteen percent had favorered Biden, said Jim D. Murphy, the head of Cambridge Reports, a national public opinion research center that did the poll for a local television station...