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...1990s. Does this reflect a long-term warming of the globe by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as many atmospheric scientists have contended? Or was the hot spell just a random, unexceptional fluctuation in the weather? A study published last week in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists developed what amounts to a time-traveling thermometer. Applying innovative statistical tools to reams of evidence gathered from ancient ice samples, tree rings and coral fragments, they effectively pushed the temperature...
...story that attracted the attention of the FBI is being told by Caryn Mann. She was once the live-in girlfriend of Parker Dozhier, a friend of Hale's who operates a bait-and-tackle shop at a Hot Springs, Ark., fishing compound, where Hale was an occasional guest in Dozhier's cabin. Both Mann and her son Joshua Rand, 17, say Dozhier regularly received money from Boynton and David Henderson, a Scaife associate and Spectator vice president. She says Dozhier gave some of the money to Hale. Dozhier and Spectator editor Tyrrell admit that Dozhier...
...stars," provides a keyhole through which we can get a very intimate glimpse of Hollywood life, gay and straight, as it once existed behind the veil of secrecy. Haines knew everyone (and seems to have had affairs with many of them). Through his eyes, as reconstructed by Mann, we see the increasingly hidden world of early gay Hollywood: the actors--Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro--and the people behind the scenes, such as director George Cukor and jet-setting composer Cole Porter, the two focal points of gay male Hollywood...
...William Haines story is also a love story, although its poignancy does not become fully apparent until very late in his biography. Both Haines and Jimmie Shields seem to have been remarkably private men; despite the hundreds of Haines quotations and reminiscences by friends that Mann has drawn on, most of Haines' comments to the world feel like "wisecracks"--his trademark brand of defensive humor--and it's hard to get a feeling that we understand this man's inner life. Even less information remains about Shields, and what reminiscences his friends do offer sound rather more boorish than endearing...
...biography of William Haines is a remarkably rich document of 50 years of changing Hollywood mores, and Mann has succeeded admirably in his stated goal of shedding light on the too-long-neglected world of early Hollywood gay life and culture. But it's the other threads running through Haines' life which give the book its impact: Haines' changing friendships, his passionate love for his interior design business, his catty treatment by the scandal press and his devotion to Jimmie. Through that intimate, personal story, Mann is able to successfully bring home the impact of what started...