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Article: Overbooking the Pope
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 3, 1994
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The pope has written a new book, and the publishers have high
hopes for it. That's why a team of American publicists went over to
see him to discuss his book tour.
The conversation went something like this:
"Good news, Your Holiness - Barbara Walters has agreed to put
you on her show. The bad news is that Barbara said if you do it you
can't go on Diane Sawyer or Connie Chung. It was a close call, but
Barbara's putting you on with Prince Charles and Alan Dershowitz,
and we figure that she should have an 80 share of the audience.
Larry King is dying to get you but can't give us a firm `yes'
because he still hasn't heard from Ross Perot and Mrs. Huffington.
"We told Larry that we can't ...