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...Pope John Paul II touched down in Costa Rica last week, attention in Rome was distracted by new developments related to one of the darkest hours of the Pontiffs reign. Ever since the 1981 assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square, suspicion has grown that the convicted Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, took his orders from Bulgarian agents, who in turn might have been acting with the knowledge of the Soviet Union. To date, Italian investigators have arrested one Bulgarian official in Rome for alleged complicity in the plot, and accused two others. Now Italian officials have begun examining...
...William Richert, a novice writerdirector, strode out of Closetland with a pair of black-comic fantasias on the lust for power: Winter Kills and Success. What happened next would fulfill a paranoid's darkest hopes. With all the good grace of a Mafia don consigning a nosy reporter to cement sneakers in the East River, Hollywood offhandedly dumped Richert's films. Winter Kills, which twisted an assassination scenario into high-voltage satire, was pulled from release after a few weeks. Success, a screwball comedy on the doppelganger theme, was left to molder in its distributor's vaults...
...very near; he barely beat the clock with the help of a limousine. At his house, he told his wife when they laid him down, "I'm never going to leave this bed again." Johnny Weissmuller was here, but lucidity began to elude him in the darkest hours, and he took to wandering into other rooms, booming that famous Tarzan yell, and they had to take him away. The ape man is now being attended to in a villa in Acapulco, and his bills are seen to by the Motion Picture and Television Fund. The fund also administers...
...witness to history who has seen the ship of humanity go under in the darkest moments of this century, "he says quietly. "I know that man is as capable of the worst as of the best, of madness as of genius, and I believe that the unthinkable is not impossible' I am groping for a future that is post-national and post-ideological, because I know, how dangerous extreme nationalism and ideology...
...position is not in darkest Africa but in the steamy slums of Edwardian London. His task is to rescue the souls of their prostitute population. Unfortunately, this earnest young cleric is distracted by the pleasures of the women's generously proffered flesh, and by the importunings of his rich and lubricious patroness (a subdued Maggie Smith). The missionary is played by the Monty Python's Michael Palin, who also wrote the script. But the jokes are mild, single-minded and, too often, familiar. Palin appears less interested in being funny than in offering criticism of a society that...