Word: fiending
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...assaults all the "pillars of society," church and family, law and science (she doesn't, of course, mess with the market). The movie is a spitting on all the sacred social relationships, a fiend's snarl at god and man. She renders authority helpless--the doctors, cops, shrinks and priests, guardians of the public health, safety and conscience, she defiles. Little Regan, this bright-eyed and blossomed-cheeked twelve-year-old darling, terrifies and tells off the whole straight, established, grown-up world of the movie. She is a hell's angel and a devil's child, a naughty devil...
...dark doings dealt with here all center on a rundown hotel right across from MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles. The place is a shabby paradise for dazed runaways, phony clergymen, transvestites, voyeurs and ugly old ladies. There is even a fiend loose in the musty corridors. He keeps committing ghastly crimes, mostly murder by dismemberment, and he is sloppy about disposing of the bodies. Limbs are littered all over. All in all, it is just about the most treacherous place for a night's lodging since the Bates Motel in Psycho...
...Doyle attended the powerhouse of elementary school football in the area--St. Joseph's of Mishawaka. Catholic elementary schools in the area were never allowed to tangle with public schools of the same grade level. The outcome would predictably turn the stomach of even the most blood thirsty grid fiend...
Sounds interesting--a Horatio Alger story brought up to date and humanized (for Pacino really is a very human, nice guy): a lonely, cbscure, insecure little boy works like a fiend and as a result ends up a brilliant, famous, albeit still slightly insecure, actor. How must it feel? "A little scary," says Pacino. Can he handle it? "Yes," he says firmly, "now I'm prepared." And with the sudden resolve, even the most confirmed skeptic can see it: an intensity of purpose which, in this one respect, makes Al Pacino resemble--well, yes--Michael Corleone...
Well he smaller than I had expected. At least, he's not the brawny specimen of British manhood he appears or film. Rather thin and well-dressed, soft spoken and polite. A mild joker in a veddy British way. "I'm an absolute tea-fiend. Get me some immediately, or else I shall have to inject it into my veins." (Take that damn foreigner down to Harlem.) A refined version of the feline eyes, two-coloured hair, the endearingly bumpy nose projected on the movie-screen. The Oxford accent, my dear, of course unmistakable: but not an affected one. Rather...