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...Rebel: The Truth About Phil Spector - Rock and Roll's Legendary Madman," by Mark Ribowsky, E. P. Dutton...
...chests by a 7-in. band of cartilage sounds like one of those ideas more intriguing in the conception than the execution. Once the unusual premise has been established, what's left to do? A number of good answers can be found in Darrin Strauss's Chang and Eng (Dutton; 323 pages; $23.95), a fictionalized account of the real-life, and eponymous, Siamese twins (1811-74) who were widely exhibited as touring oddities and who then settled in rural North Carolina, married a pair of sisters and fathered, between them, 21 children...
...memoir, Katie.com (Dutton; 196 pages; $19.95), Tarbox explains in simple but revealing prose how she had come to see the man who claimed to be just 23 and called himself Mark (his real name turned out to be Frank Kufrovich) as her best friend and soul mate. "He cared about me," she writes. "He listened to my feelings... And he always supported me with encouragement and advice." In contrast, "home was a place where I always felt alone." Alienated from her workaholic mother, she had only one other friend and hated her grueling workouts on a nationally ranked swim team...
Tying off, shooting up, knocking each other up and around: too many dramatic series have shown urban African Americans doing little else. This six-hour mini-series gets away with it because it's adapted from a true story; because Charles S. Dutton directs it with grace; because T.K. Carter and Khandi Alexander are revelations as a middle-class couple brought low by, and struggling to rise above, their drug habit. The dialogue is at times stagey, and the characters are defined almost entirely through their addictions. But for this last, reality has to share the blame...
Rather than argue from the same stalemated positions, Americans ought to read Randall Robinson's new book, "The Debt, What America Owes to Blacks" (Dutton, 262 pages, $23.95) - an extraordinarily eloquent work that places the reparations discussion in the larger historical framework of 246 years of slavery and another hundred years of Jim Crow and racial discrimination. Robinson, president of TransAfrica (which did much to fight apartheid, among other battles), declares: "...the black holocaust is far and away the most heinous human rights crime visited upon any group of people in the world over the last five hundred years." Elie...