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INSPIRATION According to p.r. material for two new novels, Random House's "Lucky Bastard is the...story of a gifted politician with dangerous friends and a zipper problem," while the Senator in Simon & Schuster's The Woody has "a history of having a 'zipper problem.'" Where do they think this stuff...
Because Lewis is much more a man of action than of reflection, his autobiography, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Simon & Schuster; 496 pages; $26), co-authored with Michael D'Orso, at times degenerates into a travelogue of movement battlefields. But it also provides a stirring portrait of the power of moral consistency and courage. Lewis and SNCC colleagues like Diane Nash and Robert Moses were willing to put their lives and bodies on the line at a time when both white political leaders like John Kennedy and established civil rights groups like the N.A.A.C.P. urged caution...
...pianist. And though she wrote a number of her hits, including the sexually brazen Dr. Feelgood, she also displayed brilliance in making other people's compositions her own, such as Curtis Mayfield's pop gem Something He Can Feel. Or listen to her 1971 gospel-charged take on the Simon and Garfunkel classic Bridge over Troubled Water. That water's a good deal more troubled when Franklin sings the song; even the bridge seems sturdier. She was the first female inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
...rock 'n' roll at the time of Elvis Presley's pre-eminence, no doubt hoping to turn back the Mongols. It didn't quite work, and in efforts to maintain his commercial viability, Sinatra would eventually record Presley's hit Love Me Tender as well as works by Paul Simon (Mrs. Robinson), George Harrison (Something) and Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now). The results were often awkward--this is the Sinatra people like me used to make fun of. But listen with more knowing ears: when Sinatra sings "You stick around, Jack, it might show" on Something, you get the feeling...
Lukas "was a brilliant writer and one of the seminal journalists of his generation," said Carolyn Reidy, president and publisher of the Simon & Schuster Trade Division. "His death is a devastating loss...