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THREE BLIND MICE: HOW THE TV NETWORKS LOST THEIR WAY by Ken Auletta (Random House; $25). It's no secret that CBS, NBC and ABC began hitting the skids in the mid-1980s; this long book reports the high-level pratfalls in meticulous and sometimes gossipy detail...
...Nothing, if you don't make a habit of it. But -- notice that I am opening Uh-Oh at random -- right here he's in a grocery store, holding a can of tuna fish and being sensitive. He thinks about 'all the incredible learning and working and the machinery and the processes and the fishing boats and fishermen and factory ships and trains and trucks that brought it here from so far away.' When I read that, I don't feel so good...
...Comeek appears in 55 newspapers, shows that her truest metier may be the stage in THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME, a sometimes campy yet mostly poignant off-Broadway memoir of blue-collar life in the '60s. The plot crams in far too much -- infidelity and divorce, the random death of a child, teen sex, Volare, bygone rock dances, a misbegotten camping trip -- and the two dozen-plus characters are mostly stereotypes and sketches. But the core story is believably specific and disconcertingly universal: the emergence of a friendship between two preteen girls, one black and one white, amid...
...Auletta; Random House; 656 pages...
BRIEF LIVES by Anita Brookner (Random House; $20). A woman approaching 70 grows reminiscent after seeing an obituary of an acquaintance 10 years older. The lives portrayed in this novel -- the author's 10th -- are hardly brief, but they radiate considerable strength and poignancy...