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...EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC...
...bets on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions is about to break out: Exorcist II, Jaws 2 and Sting II are either scheduled...
...Lucas' film), will open with their own galaxies of stars-old-fashioned Hollywood stars. In addition, there will be underwater adventure in The Deep, straight suspense in The Sorcerer (William Friedkin's remake of that wonderful old French movie The Wages of Fear), and devilish terror in Exorcist II: The Heretic...
Christopher Durang, 28, is a grandchild of the movie age, and his play, A History of the American Film, is a comic memorial to our movie mania. In a little over two hours, Durang recomposes America's entire cinematic history, from Orphans of the Storm to The Exorcist, including everything in between, from the screwball comedies of the '30s to Elizabeth Taylor screaming at Richard Burton in the '60s. In Durang's hands the familiar images always take an unexpected turn, however, and he proves that there is nothing so funny as the cliche...
There was once, in the West, a tradition of demonic art. It no longer exists because-The Exorcist and other light satanic amusements notwithstanding-nobody much believes in devils any more. Perhaps the last significant European painter who did believe in them, and was able to project his anxieties onto them and make the demonic a chief theme of his work, died...