Now that a hit comedy about the Holocaust -- "Life is Beautiful" -- is getting Oscar buzz, Hollywood's door is wide open on which subjects can make for funny movies. There's a spoof about Watergate in the works called "Dick." And now you can add to that a new comedy about the Bay of Pigs, the 1962 nuclear weapons stand-off between Fidel Castro and J.F.K. The film, "Company Man," stars Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro, and is directed by Douglas McGrath ("Emma"), who tells EW Online it's "a very nutty movie" based on true historical events.

Since Kennedy didn't want to execute Castro, the CIA was forced to concoct elaborate alternatives. "They sent him shoe polish with poison gas that was supposed to make his beard fall off," McGrath explains. "Then, they sent him water laced with LSD, so he would start hallucinating." The idea, as the movie will show, was to publicly humiliate Castro, to have his faithful followers say, as McGrath puts it, "Now he's hallucinating. Last week he lost his beard. We've got to get rid of this guy!" What's next, "Sunday in the Woods With the Unabomber"?

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