Dear RaineyPark,
As I recall, Jack Lemmon's character was a priest who was tooling around in a Mercedes Benz while assigned to a very wealthy suburban parish. Mr. Lemmon's character was hardly a modern day Fr. Damian, driving around in an old Yugo while tending to the members of some poor urban parish.
Come to think of it, I wonder how large and affluent the Rev. Trask's congregation was in Salem, MA? Maybe there were not that many parishioners left after the "good" reverend performed all those rites of exorcism.
Speaking of exorcisms, when I read William Peter Blatty's novel, "The Exorcist," it scared the heck out of me. I always wondered if "Captain Howdy" was going to sneak into my house at night. And, yet, when I saw the movie, I could not stop laughing when Linda Blair "ralphed" (or up-chucked) right into Max Von Sydow's face. Thank God, Josette did not up-chuck into the Rev. Trask's face when he started to perform the rite of exorcism. But, come to think of it...
Bob the Bartender, who's got agita in the labanza!!!