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Playing With Guns And Whores

Glenys Roberts HIGH CONCEPT: DON SIMPSON AND THE HOLLYWOOD CULTURE OF EXCESS by Charles Fleming Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 249 D on Simpson once asked a Hollywood writer what time......

Penguin Man In Hard Covers

Alfred Sherman DARK CONTINENT by Mark Mazower Allen Lane/Penguin, £20, pp. 496 T he historian's job is to dispel myths, but he is not immune to capture by them. Mark Mazower's......