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...first shock from this narcissistic, almost coquettish new champion. He went off after the fight to eat ice cream in the company of Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader whose unyielding words attacked the nation's racial hostilities and foretold the fire to come. The next morning, the conqueror of Listen told sportswriters he had become a Black Muslim...
Sian Phillips stands out as Livia, the wicked witch of the Tiber, who dominates all around with her icy, terrible beauty. Brian Blessed manages the difficult task of making Augustus, the founding father, appear both wise and foolish, the conqueror of the world who cannot manage his own family. Derek Jacobi's Claudius is half stumble and stutter and half genius, but convincing in every detail...
...Word count so far: 385.) Short break for inner movie about receiving Nobel Prize for literature. Psychiatrists call this the "grandiose fantasy." This imaginary acclaim is a neurotic compromise between the real self-scared, limited-and the ideal self-a literary conqueror. Says Manhattan Analyst Donald Kaplan: "The fantasy of playing Carnegie Hall may be so gratifying that you can't manage to practice your scales...
Staffers have also had help in tracing their family trees. An uncle of the London bureau's Christopher Byron spent 20 years researching the family, which includes the poet Lord Byron and Ralph de Burun, an aide to William the Conqueror. Senior Editor Otto Friedrich claims Bismarck's Foreign Minister, Bernhard von Billow, as a forebear as well as the French Dukes of Guise. Senior Editor John Elson notes that an ancestor of his grew the first pineapple in England, from a seedling brought back from the South Seas by Captain Cook...
...star nearly 20 centuries ago that guided the wise men from their lands in the east to the manger in Bethlehem? There are those who dismiss the star as nothing more than a metaphor; many ancient civilizations believed that new stars heralded the birth of almost any king or conqueror. Stars, after all, are said to have greeted the births of Mithridates and Alexander. But others take the Christmas star more literally, and not without reason. Astronomical records show that there were several significant celestial events around the time of Jesus' birth...