BY ALL ACCOUNTS, Rocky was one of the most gentle and affectionate animals to be found in Hollywood’s vast exotic menagerie of performing lions, tigers and bears — until the 700-pound grizzly bit down on the neck of a veteran trainer and killed him.

GOOD PRINCE, bad prince. In recent years, the good prince has been William, the responsible, handsome, self-effacing heir to the throne.

AMERICAN DIRECTORS Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh will headline the streamlined competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which features fewer big-name directors and more emerging voices from across the globe.

THE SCREEN Actors Guild has reached separate deals that will allow the completion of 95 independent movie productions if actors go on strike, a union official said Tuesday.

TRICIA NIXON was risque in a sleeveless gown at her Rose Garden wedding.

HE WORKED for British intelligence and traveled the world in style.

IS IT ART — or is it blasphemy? Austrians are locked in a nationwide debate touched off by the brief display in a prestigious Catholic museum of an etching that depicts Jesus Christ and his disciples having an orgy during the biblical Last Supper.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Big Ben. One of Britain’s last bell foundries Thursday marked the 150th anniversary of its biggest creation — the massive bell whose bongs sound the hour at the Houses of Parliament.

WHEN AARON JONES walks Gozer, his Rottweiler-hound mix, people cross the street to avoid them.

ATHENS, Ga. STORIES ABOUT wounded Iraq veterans, reported by war-wounded TV journalists, won Peabody Awards on Wednesday.