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What distinguishes Martin's book from the sensationalism of Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist is that he sees a complex battle between good and evil involved in making even the most prosaic decisions of everyday life. He asserts that the five cases he has chosen to examine...
...standard procedure at exorcisms) and entries from the diaries of participants, he reconstructs the five exorcisms. The material varies: at times he evokes nothing more than memories of William P. Blatty's lurid prose or of bad National Enquirer exposes; alternately, without warning, Martin produces rather alarming dialogues between exorcist and spirit that touch at the heart of modern evil. This is the strength of Hostage to the Devil; it offers an insight into the evil not only of Buchenwald and My Lai but also into the more personal evil of everyday life. Whether you believe in possession...
With her second child expected later this month, Actress Tuesday Weld probably had maternity rather than method acting on her mind during the filming of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood. The ABC-TV film, to be shown on March 7, stars Exorcist Actor Jason Miller as the Lost Generation novelist (The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night) and Weld as his exotic and eventually psychotic wife Zelda. Unlike Miller, who read a small shelf of Fitzgerald books and biographies before tackling the script, Weld insists that she did absolutely nothing to prepare for her role. "What appealed to me most...
...glittering blue eyes and ready grin make him seem the soul of affability. But beware. The smallest infraction can trip a temper that has become as infamous as Mussolini's. Tom's face grows scarlet, and his voice sounds like the Devil's in The Exorcist. "It's an awesome, frightening experience," says a colleague. At 44, happy-faced Tom may be Hollywood's most successful maverick, but he is also one of its most feared producers...
...signed up for his first movie role ever. Capote, the scriptwriter for Beat the Devil and The Innocents, will portray an eccentric, killer-minded billionaire in a Neil Simon comedy titled Murder by Death. "The movie will have more special effects than Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist combined," claimed Truman, whose co-stars will include Peter Folk, Alec Guinness and Elsa Lanchester. Has the author of In Cold Blood finally changed his mind about thespian intelligence? "Actors are stupid, but I'm not stupid," he replied. "Anyway, this will give them a chance to carve...