Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meantime, from Aspen, Colo., where he is at work on "another theological thriller," The Exorcist's author, William Peter Blatty, grumbled: "I'm sick of hearing that the movie is a success because of a rediscovery of the occult. A thousand or more books have been written on the occult in the last ten years-they've each sold about ten copies." Blatty acknowledges that The Exorcist was plagued by a "series of disasters": halfway through the filming, fire destroyed the set, and the man who was playing the director died. But he notes: "There has been...
...scriptwriters to report to the scene for atmosphere. Despite protests, Fitzgerald was herded on a plane from California to New York, and as his alcoholism got the better of him, he boarded a train to White River Junction with much distaste. By the time Fitzgerald arrived, he was sick, drunk and sleepless. And during the next few days Dartmouth College "honored" Fitzgerald by holding a seminar in which the professors criticized the script in progress. He left offended, and later attended a party at Alpha Delta at which he told everyone how great he had been until producer Wanger ordered...
...back to Washington with contradictory messages from the folks at home. Most Americans think that the President is guilty of one charge or another in the Watergate scandals; they would like to see him out of office. But they do not yet want him to be impeached. Most Americans, sick to death of Watergate, want Congress to act quickly on the impeachment question. This feeling is summed up by what amounts to a new political cliche: "Impeach him or get off his back." Yet the people also want the impeachment handled fairly and judiciously...
...criticism that seems even more fundamental than those levied at the specific treatment methods attacks the whole concept of "treatment" of prisoners rather than punishment. This attitude assumes that the prisoner is sick, and so assumes that his criticisms of the institution are irrational...
...budget from 4 to 10 million dollars as Friedkin kept mashing up more vomit effects into his vomit movie. He must have gotten carried away, which is lucky for the investors. What a good gamble they made, those wizards, when they guessed that people would want to get sick at the movies. Maybe they noticed that people also stock up on T.V. dinners, dash-board Jesuses, dead-baby jokes...