At a festive Christmas party that the Charles couple were hosting, news of the Julia Wolf murder was heard on the radio:Police have found out that the beautiful blonde secretary was once a gangster""s girl.Warren Beatty, Charles Grodin, Robert Redford, and Burt Ward (the ""Robin"" character of the TV seriesBatman) were all considered for the role of Benjamin, and Patricia Neal and Doris Day were considered for the part of Mrs." Luke was curious, but was told "to forget it." He then changed the subject and proposed applying to the Academy, instead of staying on for another harvest season, but his uncle insisted on Luke remaining for another year.[Is it just a coincidence hat the alien is discovered in a stable, and Elliott""s mother is named Mary - similar to the Biblical stories?] Laying the pizza on he ground, Elliott casually tosses his softball into the shed - it is playfully thrown back out to him.[Another sequence at the CIA showed a tape of former African dictator Nykwana Wombosi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) speaking to the press in Paris during his exile.