The movie Charles Cronan is watching in his office is the beginning of the first movie in the series _Cannonball Run (1981)_ . In Los Angeles, Valentino uses Lucille Ball's house as a navigational reference. He navigates with a map to the stars' homes. Lucille Ball died less than a week after the movie openned. Considered to be a distant relative of the Cannonball Run films, and in fact it was at one point going to be called Cannonball Run III. Spiro Edsel says that Richard Nixon is h ...[Read Story ]