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DIED. DORIS TROY, 67, the melodically ambitious singer of the 1963 hit Just One Look, whose beginnings as a choir girl in her father's Harlem church inspired the long-running musical Mama, I Want to Sing; of emphysema; in Las Vegas. Under her birth name, Doris Payne, she wrote most of her own material, bridging gospel, soul and rock. As Doris Troy (from Helen of Troy) she sang backup for bands like the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd...
...plenty of Southern tales. He told me about blasting cans in a crick--"You'd throw the beer can and take the pistol, and bang"--and, having grown up in Arkansas myself, I recounted freezing duck hunts on the Cache River. But Clark trumped me. He launched into a "Mama-thon"--how "beautiful" she was, how "capable." There was even a Faulknerian touch. "She wasn't good with babies, let's put it that way," he said of the late Veneta Clark, who became a working mother after Clark's dad died of a heart attack when...
...Southernness not only stands for moderate, red-state politics. It also carries a cultural meaning, one that Clark hints at with his sad Mama tales: We're average people. In Edwards' new book, Four Trials, people are never just people--they are always "regular people" or "decent people" or folks with "good common sense...
...lesson Edwards and Clark learned from 1992 and 2000 is that the more down-to-earth guy won. Clinton was the kid who had survived his own Gothic mama and his stepfather's struggles with alcohol; Bush was the average guy who, with Christ's help, survived his own. But sometimes you can try too hard to be average--even with a Southern accent. --With reporting by Mitch Frank with Edwards
...forget Paris. And Funny Cide. And Baghdad Bob. Because, like that steaming plate of Mama's meatballs served up by a celebrity chef, there are some inhabitants of the high-wattage spotlight who were just never meant to stay hot for long. This year's menu...