Lentorama 2014: We're Ready for Your Closeup, Your Holiness
Day 6: Foul Play
I've never seen this Chevy Chase - Goldie Hawn vehicle, and didn't expect it to involve a pope, but it turns out the movie is like what you'd get if you turned The DaVinci Code into a screwball comedy.
A librarian (Hawn) is given a tape and soon afterwards finds herself followed by a dwarf and an albino. She brings a less than stellar member of the police (Chase) into the picture, and together they learn of a plot to kill the Pope when he's in town seeing a production of The Mikado. I assume the dwarfs and albinos are working together. San Francisco bigwig Cyril Mangin plays Pius XII.
The only other item of note is a bit of a coincidence: CBS scheduled a prime-time airing of Foul Play during the week of the John Paul II assassination attempt. Not surprisingly, they decided to air it later in the summer.
11 March 2014
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