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Never Greater. TIME's chief European correspondent William Rademaekers found the exorcist theory especially popular in Europe. There the extravagances of the past decade of America's tortured history-the political assassinations, the war in Viet Nam and the callous domestic politics of the Nixon years-are considered parts of a whole. The catharsis of Nixon's fall may allow the U.S. to return to a state of domestic tranquillity that would be reflected in a stable foreign policy. Europeans believe that now the American Congress will play a more important role in matters of foreign policy...
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY William Peter Blatty, L.H.D., novelist and film producer. The Exorcist memorably objectifies Evil in a time which would as soon ignore...
Questions of authenticity continue to haunt The Exorcist. Now Greek Orthodox Bishop Mark Athanasios C. Karras of Miami is suing Warner Bros., Harper & Row, Bantam Books and Author William Peter Blatty for the unauthorized use of his name in the book and the movie. He wants $7 million of the work's multimillion-dollar profit. Mark Athanasios C. has exorcised demons for years, he says, and what particularly peeves him is that Blatty has made the fictional Father Karras "a weak and failing priest." Said a professionally wounded, flesh-and-blood Karras: "The book and the picture wrongfully depict...
...Conductor Leonard Bernstein and Choreographer Jerome Robbins, who created an authentic American dance classic in Fancy Free (1944) and later joined forces on Broadway's evergreen West Side Story, were collaborating on a new work for the first time in nearly 17 years. In the season of The Exorcist, their theme had a certain built-in appeal: the ancient Jewish folk myth of the dybbuk, a wandering spirit of a dead person that invades and inhabits the body of a living man or woman. So what could go wrong...
Most Blatant Promotion Gimmick: Warner Brothers proudly announced that The Exorcist had brought two people together. Spinster Doris Davey fainted when she first saw the movie at a Chicago cinema eleven weeks ago, falling into the arms of Theater Manager Larry Watts. The couple were married last week. Still under the spell of The Exorcist, the bride wore the same suit she had collapsed in. Director William Friedkin, perhaps hoping to swell the movie's gross of over $19 million so far, made an appearance as best...