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The Ones Who Sing Behind the Scenes Or 20 Feet From the Front of the Stage

Date: 06/12/2013

Sunday's Washington Post and New York Times had two marvelous tributes to the people (mostly women) whose voices are all around us but whose names and faces we do not know.  The magnificent new documentary "20 Feet from Stardom," opens with photos obscuring the faces of the singing stars so that we focus on the people singing backup, all the "da doo ron rons" and "toot toot beep beeps."  Wha ...

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motes and logs: or, what we don't see...

Date: 06/10/2013

On the plane coming home from a weekend writer's conference, I sat next to a very nice woman from Austin. She was unbelievably lovely, soft-spoken with a sweet Southern drawl. We talked, as passengers in tiny seats sharing breathing space do, about one thing & another. And I didn't even realise that I had made certain assumptions -- prejudiced assumptions -- until Janet-from-Austin blew ...

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