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Delivering that limerick in the House of Commons, Conservative M.P. Robert Adley last month twitted a Roman Catholic priest who particularly nettles the Tories: Monsignor Bruce Kent, 53, the tireless general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Britain's most important peace group...
...years as the first female president of a major U.S. film studio, 20th Century-Fox Productions Chief Sherry Lansing, 38, has overseen exactly one big box-office hit: Porky's, a pickup from an independent film maker. But that commercial success was far outnumbered by such turkeys as Monsignor, Making Love, Six Pack and Author! Author! In The Verdict, starring Paul Newman, Fox finally has a critically acclaimed smasheroo, but Lansing will not be around to reap the rewards. Last week she resigned her post, which paid $300,000 a year, plus bonuses...
...domed statehouse, celebrated its 175th anniversary. Trustees today include descendants of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Yet for all its Oriental carpets, marble busts and Victorian antiques, the Athenaeum is no stuffy club of Yankee bluebloods. The trustees include four women, as well as an Irish American Roman Catholic monsignor, and the library's magnificent collection of 750,000 volumes is available to the scholars of the world. One of the finest independent libraries in the country, the Boston Athenaeum truly lives up to its entrance plaque: "Here remains a retreat for those who would enjoy the humanity...
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...have made a big expensive picture about, get this, an American priest who finances the papacy with money he got from the Mafia. He also has a real steamy love affair with a French lady who is studying to be a nun. And, on top of that, this scheming monsignor is played by Christopher Reeve-that's right, Superman-so he's supposed to be a kind of nice, charming guy. Now I hear that concerned Americans of every religious persuasion are trying to fight this movie by laughing it off the screen. But what I want...