Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) stars 85-year-old Michel Piccoli as the hapless, stricken Melville.
On the occasion of the election of a new Pope, Nanni Moretti's blithe yet fierce, Chaplinesque comedy "We Have a Pope," starring Michel Piccoli as the reluctant victor, which was released last spring, is available again on demand on Amazon, iTunes, and elsewhere.
The third season premiere for the show about hotshot D.C. public relations guru Olivia Pope, starring Kerry Washington, last week opened to 10.5 million viewers, its biggest audience ever.
The television film, starring Thomas Kretschmann ("The Pianist," "King Kong") as the pope, co-stars Bruno Ganz ("Wings of Desire") as Cardinal Wyszynski, the primate of Poland.
The pope also stars in our 24 hours in pictures gallery today.
His beat in Rome was "the pope, movie stars and gangsters".
Films playing at the Springfield Googolplex movie theater at the beginning of the episode include Honey, I Hit a School Bus (a parody of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), Look Who's Oinking (a parody of Look Who's Talking), and a film called Ernest vs. The Pope which stars the fictional character Ernest P. Worrell.
"Presidents, prime ministers, princes, popes, pop stars," he said.
The title refers to the two times he worked at the stadium when the pope was the star attraction.
