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...model. "When my dad died when I was 9," says Lansing, "I watched her take over the real estate business in Chicago. So many of my movies are about a woman who is not going to be a victim." When Lansing, who is married to director William Friedkin (The Exorcist), took the Paramount job in 1992, she continued to spin gold out of what she calls "female empowerment films" such as The First Wives Club and Double Jeopardy. She has a stern but maternal demeanor in the office. ("She can say no to you in the most endearing way," says...
Similarly, it is silly to claim that no one has ever encountered a demon. Consider, if you will, the extensive literature on demonic possession, a supposedly medieval phenomenon that has shown remarkable legs in our disenchanted world. (It’s worth noting that The Exorcist was based on a true story far more shocking and supernaturally charged than any of Linda Blair’s pea-soupy antics.) Yes, it’s perfectly conceivable that every case of “possession” has some as-yet-undreamt-of medical explanation. But it seems possible...
...thrillers over the past few months. It is expensive ($8 million), elaborate, technically intricate and wonderfully crafted, a movie whose every shock is a devastating surprise. Like Earthquake, it takes a panic-producing disaster and shows how a representative cross section of humanity responds to it. Like The Exorcist, it deals with an essentially unknowable, therefore unpredictable and thoroughly spooky symbol of evil. Jaws promised to hit right in the old collective unconscious and to draw millions irresistibly to the box office. Start a mass-medium migration like that, its producers hope, and millions more will turn out just...
...Tony award for That Championship Season, of a heart attack; in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The play is based on Miller's experiences on his high-school basketball team, but he is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance as Father Damien Karras in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, architect, author, and last surviving founder of the motorcycle company that bears his name; in Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades; in Jupiter, Florida. (See Eulogy) DIED. R.K. NARAYAN, 94, prolific novelist and author...
From his office walls, M. Night Shyamalan's idols and inspirations look down on him. His production company, located in Conshohocken, Pa., just outside Philadelphia, has a cozy main room that is dominated by several framed movie posters. There's one from The Exorcist, which is one of Shyamalan's favorite horror films. There's also a poster from Raiders of the Lost Ark, a film directed by one of Shyamalan's heroes, Steven Spielberg. And finally, there's a large poster from Die Hard featuring a sooty portrait of Bruce Willis, who right now is Shyamalan's favorite leading...