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LOU GRANT star, Ed Asner as the Pope who recently became a Saint, John XXIII Pacem in Terris Massimo Ghini played a big part as the younger Angelo Roncalli Watching the DVD version of this TV movie proves again that one cannot know everything.  When  you read certain books and documents, you can only imagine how certain aspects of one's life are. True, not everything could be tackled, but more or leas you get to know or visualize a person's traits or psyche. Biopics sometimes differ from what actually happen in real life. Sometimes they are presented as if the ones watching are wearing rose colored lenses. Others are produced at times to malign the "other party".  Thankfully, this TV movie is very fair to all sides, even to the detractors of the very humble then future Saint. I watched this with my brothers and sisters in our Prayer Community.  I was actually late for 25 minutes(although it was announced to be shown at 7:30 in the...