Word: exorcist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from idleness to violence, for no other reason than for something to do-but has a special kick. Here are boys and girls 12, 13, 14, precociously aping their elders. It makes the climax, in which they demolish the local high school, as chilling as any thing in The Exorcist...
...stays there. The result is that Bancroft has nowhere to go when, at the end of each act, she needs to escalate into the play's most demanding scenes. Surely her approach is the one Director William Friedkin wanted; his work in films (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is notable for its harrowing power, not its subtlety. This leaves Max von Sydow, as the doctor, to prowl the set like a lion tamer confronting an unpredictable new beast. He need not worry. Bancroft's lioness isn't hungry enough to eat him. She has already devoured Kempinski...
...studio back lots, but in the '60s, when movie stars were suddenly supposed to look like real people, warts and all, the makeup man went into a decline. A revival-the beginning of the Golden Age of Makeup-began with Planet of the Apes (1968), and The Exorcist (1973) and scores of films featuring a graphic spilling of blood and guts. In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, some 20 years ago, a knife was never seen touching the victim, played by Janet Leigh. "Now, they want it to cut right through," says Mike Westmore, who did Robert De Niro...
Smith, who made his reputation with Linda Blair's gruesome makeup in The Exorcist, solved another kind of problem in Ken Russell's Altered States. To simulate the surge of energy that transforms William Hurt from a questing professor into a primitive being, Smith attached seven overlapping air bladders, covered with a skinlike material, to the arm on which the camera was focused. Inflating the bags one after the other, he gave the impression of a flow of life-changing energy...
Much about the use of cocaine by celebrities has been highly publicized, including the arrests. Among them: Linda Blair, cherub-faced star of The Exorcist; Louise Lasser, the ill-fated Mary Hartman; Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who plea-bargained down to a disorderly-conduct charge; Rolling Stone Guitarist Keith Richard, whose hard living is legend; Comedian Flip Wilson, who was taken into custody only hours before a scheduled meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Not even the White House has been untouched. Dr. Peter Bourne, the Carter drug adviser who resigned after giving an aide a prescription...