THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes:

Regarding Callista Gingrich, a candidate (apparently) for the position of Ambassadress to the Holy See in the Vatican: As a lifetime connoisseur of science fiction who, in the present semester, as many times in the past, is teaching a course on the topic, I believe that I recognize Mrs. Gingrich.

She is the “person” above from the campy sci-fi flick Mars Attacks (1996).

In Mars Attacks, the nameless woman is not a woman at all, of course, nor is she human; she is a simulacrum cooked up by the invading Martians to seduce the world’s political leaders, preparatory to their invasion. True, Newt Gingrich, although only probably human himself, is no longer a political leader; but I believe that Callista (“she”) married him when it appeared that he was or might be. I agree with you that this entity would be perfectly matched to the Vatican ambassadorship, as I take it for granted that Jorge Mario Bergoglio (also undoubtedly “very spiritual”) is not, as he claims, “from Argentina,” but from the Mothership, which is orbiting somewhere between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt.

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