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Dressing Up The New Dawn

John Vincent MANDY by Paul Routledge Simon & Schuster, £17.99, pp. 302 T he author of this very thorough study has not found things easy. From the start Peter Mandelson......

Running The Hollywood Asylum

Philip French EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS by Peter Biskind Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 506 I n 1919 when Hollywood's four biggest stars, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks......