Word: exorcist
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...have a few pastoral problems resulting from The Exorcist [Jan. 21]. My reply to the people who come to me is: "I'm sorry, but I just do not have time to believe in the Devil. All my time is taken up believing in Jesus Christ." This usually puts a little perspective in the discussion...
...Regardless of the theological inadequacies of The Exorcist, it has, without doubt, shocked us into the realization that there is a Devil and a "place" called Hell...
...people gather for an 8 a.m. showing at a theater seating 1,450. Every day 5,000 moviegoers stand in the long queue wrapped around the Sack 57 Cinema in Boston. Four Manhattan theaters have lines extending for blocks from noon to midnight. In its first five weeks, The Exorcist (TIME, Jan. 14-21) has rung up more than $10 million at box office cash registers in 20 cities. Glowing -and gloating-Warner Bros, executives predict that it will easily top the alltime moneymaker The Godfather, which grossed more than $155 million for Paramount...
...grow longer-raising the suspicion that the film's popularity may be less a show-business phenomenon than a lesson in crowd psychology. "I'm the first on our street to see it," chirped one suburban matron. All kinds of people, it seems, have been infected by Exorcist fever. Teenage girls on triple-tier wedgies teeter down the aisle behind pin-striped businessmen carrying briefcases. A silver-haired woman clutching a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper slides uneasily into a seat next to a middle-aged naval officer. Most audiences, however, tend to be young and to contain...
...Kiev, a psychiatrist at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, thinks that The Exorcist somehow unveils the innermost unexpressed concerns of many people. "It acknowledges the presence of evil; if people are attracted to this film, then that is what is in their subconscious. Then again, many patients see themselves as the devil...