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O's Quick Guide to The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett's best-seller The Pillars of the Earth, now a lusty eight-hour miniseries, features these forces of good and evil.
By Jessica Winter
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Waleran Bigod

Waleran Bigod (Ian McShane)


Sepulchral bishop who would literally kill to be the first English pope. Makes the depraved saloon owner that McShane played in Deadwood look positively priestly.

From the August 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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