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The Nose Goes To The Vatican With Jude Law

Connecticut Public Radio | By Jonathan McNicol

Published January 27, 2017 at 1:00 PM EST

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Rebecca Castellani - A scholar of modern literature.

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HBO's new limited series "The Young Pope" gives us Jude Law as the Pope. A young one, you see. On the face of it, and in its previews and trailers and such, the show seems... ridiculous? Is maybe the right word? Or maybe it just seems sort of Twin Peaksian, but set at the Vatican. Of course, ridiculous vs. Twin Peaksian is kind of a fine -- and super important -- distinction.

Also this week: The Oscar nominations are out. And a "Saturday Night Live" writer gets suspended for a joke she made on Twitter. And Mary Tyler Moore dies at age 80.

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Jonathan is a producer for ‘The Colin McEnroe Show.’ His work has been heard nationally on NPR and locally on Connecticut Public’s talk shows and news magazines. He’s as likely to host a podcast on minor league baseball as he is to cover a presidential debate almost by accident. Jonathan can be reached at jmcnicol@ctpublic.org.

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