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...otherwise best known as Charles IX's doctor. Published in November 1980, De Fontbrune's book at first drew little attention. Then, last May, readers began to interpret the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in Rome as a fulfillment of Nostradamus' prophecy that a Pontiff would be assassinated ("Roman Pope do not approach the city which two rivers bathe/ Your blood and that of your followers will flow near this place when the rose will flower"). A rose? That had to refer to Mitterrand's election; after all, the flower is the symbol of the French...
...seems the Pontiff will be denied that opportunity. And generations of aging boys, who recall Maureen O'Sullivan's nude swimming scene in the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate, will be forced to make do with a little Bo peek. Meanwhile Hollywood is happy to have another scandale on its hands. "Well, well, well," drawled one director working on the MGM lot, " Junglegate.'' -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Elaine Dutka/Los Angeles
...order of Tennis Ace Bjorn Borg, 25, Golfer Arnold Palmer, 51, and former Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali, 39. Now his Cleveland-based International Management Group has taken on a client of an even higher order: Pope John Paul II. McCormack is not seeking aftershave endorsements for the Pontiff, but he will try to make sure that the British Catholic Church will not lose money on John Paul II's visit to England, Scotland and Wales next spring. McCormack will take a 20% commission on the sale of what he describes as "various piety items such as commemorative plates, crystal...
Smiling as he walked toward his black, open-top limousine, the Pontiff stopped for an instant when greeted by a young girl bearing a welcome-back bouquet. Due for a second operation by month's end, the Pontiff was nevertheless in high spirits. "You think you can now boast that you made me a new person," he reportedly told his doctors, "but I'm the same rascal I have always been." -By E. Graydon Carter
...Agca continued to puzzle the Italian police, the Pope was announcing his forgiveness for the "brother" who had shot him. The Pontiff was absent from the Vatican window where he normally delivers a Sunday blessing to pilgrims, but his tape-recorded voice was there instead ringing clear over the huge square...