After the break: Monica Bellucci on what Mary Magdalen thinks about JP2

With still two full days to go before the Pope's funeral, we have, courtesy of New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley, a nominee for most preposterous moment of US coverage of the Pope's death:

... [CNN's] Larry King, who on Sunday asked Jim Caviezel, the actor who played Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ," to assess the pope's chances of making it to heaven. "Jim, you think he's with Jesus now?" Mr. King wondered. "We only have 30 seconds."