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McCartneymania? Not Exactly Parlor Gamas Mavis Cheek Simon and Schuster, $18.95 A Fay Weldonesque comedy of manners about the new monogamy" of England's postmodern suburbs: by the author of "Pause Between Acts." paul McCartney. The cute" BeaOe, back in the U.S.A. Monday night at Midi son Square Garden. Soid-out performances continue tomorrow and Friday. By Wayne Robins fHEN THE Baby Boomers first got old enough to have babies, the measure of their aging was a joke told by a number of stand-up comics.

Did you know, a kid with wide-eyed astonishment asks the parent, that Paul McCartney was in a group before he was in Wings? The truth is, McCartney has spent most of the last two decades (its not quite 20 years ago today that Sgt. Peppers boys would no longer play) denying his past, trying to prove that there was musical life beyond the Beatles. Monday night at Madison Square Garden, McCartney finally stopped running and hiding. In the 11-minute movie montage that opens the show (the film was compiled by Richard Lester, who made A Hard Days Night and McCartney once again shares a stage, at least in celluloid, with John, George and Ringo, and we get to see the Beatles once again in context with the personalities and historical events that shaped the 1960a. The audience reaction to the scenes provided a plebiscite on the past.

When John Lennon appears on screen singing A Hard Days Night the audience whoops with Beatlemaniacal delight; a quick flash of Mick Jagger gets cheers. A shot of Mao Zedong elicits no response whatsoever: No one seemed to know who he was. Yoko Ono on screen is booed. (Later, the live Linda McCartney, who plays keyboards, will be introduced to arctic The Gold Ball Hanne Marie Svendsen Knopf, $1895 A woman's search, on an island off the coast of Denmark, for her namesake, a legendary mystic whose gold ball holds the key to four centuries of her ancestral past; winner of the 1985 Danish Literary Critics' Prize. Newaday Jim Cummira applause Beatle wives will always seem interlopers.) The song Say, Say, Say in the film is booed, as are shots of McCartneys collaborator on the tune, Michael Jackson.

Finally, the word NOW appeared on the screen, as McCartney, the worlds most famous left-handed bass player, (come to think of it, hed be the worlds most famous left-handed second or third bass player, too) came on stage, Binging the new Figure of Eight and proving, for a time, that Paul was not dead. But opening your first New York show in more than a decade with a song no one will ever care about Bhowed more stubbor-ness than shrewdness. And for nearly three hours without intermission (and no opening act), McCartneys show too often MOVIE REVIEW INSIDE A Tangled Web of Loss and Love Ann Landers. Books Bridge Calendar Comics Crossword Cryptoquote Dear Abby Entertainment Horoscope Kidsday Movie Times Radio Television 11 4 11 20 12-14 13 11 17 5 12 15 19 21 7, 21-23 (another fine performance by Lena Olin, remembered from The Unforgettable Lightness of Being) is a survivor of Nazi death camps. When the temperamental Masha announces her pregnancy, she also insists on a temple wedding, despite Broders civil marriage to Yadwiga.

The Torah is such a great book, Broder moans. How ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY. (R) A Jewish kitettectual, a survivor of Nazism in Poland, moves to New York after the. war and almost accidentaly winds up with three wives. Film has the texture of a fine novel and Is enhanced by rich performances' from Ron Silver, Lena Olin, Anjeiica Huston, Margaret Sophie Stem and Alan King.

Directed by Paul Mazurs ky. At the Gotham Cinema (Third Avenue at 58th Street) In Manhattan. 2PART II NY NEWSDAY. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 13.

1989 PART III FOOD At the end of the 80s, a look back at a decade that began with Reagans jelly beans and ended with Bush's pork rinds. By Mike McGrady EVERY SO OFTEN a film comes along that has the' feel of literature; in most such cases, the moviemakers have so admired an original novel that they have not compromised it during the transfer to film. Director Paul Mazurakys Enemies, A Love Story is just such a film, a film that seems more book than movie loosely constructed and at times enigmatic, but rich in characterization, texture, mood, tone and meaning. Ron Silver, Tony winner for Speed-the-Plow on Broadway and a delight in Buch offbeat movies as Garbo Talks, has finally been given a film to challenge his talents. His Herman Broder is a Jewish writer who escaped the Nazis by hiding out in a hayloft and now, living in Coney Island in the year 1949, finds himself besieged by nightmares that carry him back to Poland and the war.

Broder also finds himself involved with three women. More than involved, actually. He has married Yadwiga (touchingly portrayed by Polish actress Margaret Sophie Stein), the simple gentile peasant who shielded him from the Nazis during the war and who now waits on him hand and foot, going so far as to draw his bath and soap him down while he concentrates his energies on a perusal of the morning paper. Broders beautiful but mercurial mistress Masha Pull out after Page Clockwise from top: Anjeiica Huston, Lena Olin, Ron Silver and Margaret Sophie Stein in Enemies, A Love Story'.