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William Peter Blatty, Author of ‘The Exorcist,’ Dies at 89
The Washington Post ^ | January 13, 2017 | Matt Schudel

Posted on 01/13/2017 10:15:24 AM PST by Cecily

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To: Buckeye McFrog

Apparently years ago. See #14.
Numerous other people associated with the movie, or related to people associated with the movie, have also ...DIED!
(Cue spooky music....wooooo....)


41 posted on 01/13/2017 11:19:05 AM PST by mumblypeg (Chicago called. They want their village idiot back.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Today I don’t know if that would happen being that we know now the devil possessed the Democratic party.

Is that what's going on? The #neverTrump meltdown sure puts one in mind of Matthew 8:32....

42 posted on 01/13/2017 11:20:10 AM PST by thulldud
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To: Cecily

A friend of my parents read the book when it first came out way back in the day. Apparently, he was that scared or bothered by what he read that he had his wife go downstairs at bedtime to make sure their house was locked up and the lights turned off, etc.


43 posted on 01/13/2017 11:22:31 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: wyowolf

I used to work for Ghost Adventures. normally we would receive requests to investigate this, that. The original hospital suite where the boy was sent for medical treatment is COMPLETELY boarded up. We thought back then that was darn strange.

Then after digging up more info, it’s boarded up because of the strange stuff that went on afterwards. Actually the last time I remembered the entire hallway was locked up.


44 posted on 01/13/2017 11:22:50 AM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: nwrep

And why isn’t Washington in Washington?

hmmm...now you got me wondering!


45 posted on 01/13/2017 11:26:50 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: MarineBrat

HBO is putting out a new “comedy” about a fictional Pope who smokes and swears and tells God he has more faith in himself than in God... but he’s nice to homeless people, so he’s really a good Pope.
Diane Keaton plays his putative girlfriend who happens to be a nun.
Gllad I chucked my TV years ago.


46 posted on 01/13/2017 11:27:42 AM PST by mumblypeg (Chicago called. They want their village idiot back.)
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To: Kharis13

Agreed. I saw Exorcist III some years back and found it to be a very powerful movie. It is interesting to also think that in that series, the 1977 “Exorcist II” is regarded as one of the worst movie sequels ever made.


47 posted on 01/13/2017 11:31:44 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Cecily

It was a sick, vile, sacrilegious and profane book and movie!!!!

I bought the book....not knowing the content....and realized it was pure demonic.....tore it into bits....
....and later, when I had children made them promise to not see the movie !

Sick author.....to write trash like that.....and those who have read it know which scene I’m talking about!

I couldn’t throw that book down fast enough!
Pure evil!

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48 posted on 01/13/2017 11:33:32 AM PST by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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To: max americana

Bkmrk.


49 posted on 01/13/2017 11:41:25 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: pgkdan

Have never watched it. Never will. Just seeing screen stills scares the clinton out of me.


50 posted on 01/13/2017 11:52:17 AM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

That was intended to be in the 2nd season of GA. however, the nurses didn’t want to ‘really’ talk to us because one of them told us they were traumatized on what happened even weeks later. Ever hear of a white hospital room turning black even during the mornings? Yeah, that was reported and it wasn’t enough to get the hospital permission to open it up for filming.


51 posted on 01/13/2017 11:52:24 AM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: max americana

Care to share what that strange stuff was that went on after?


52 posted on 01/13/2017 12:10:41 PM PST by Gennie
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To: Guenevere

Trash??!! The author was a conservative who sued Georgetown University for continuing to call itself a Catholic School after separating itself from pro-life philosophy and Christian doctrine.

The book depicts evil as evil and does not whitewash the Mal. But evil is defeated in the book and film.


53 posted on 01/13/2017 12:15:28 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( Even more American than a French Bikini and a Russian AK-47)
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To: max americana

Chilling. Where was the location and name of the facility?


54 posted on 01/13/2017 12:18:24 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Also in MD. The kid got better only for a brief time after the medical treatment and had to be exorcised a 2nd or third time.


55 posted on 01/13/2017 12:23:57 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: Bigg Red
scares the clinton out of me.

LOL! I'm stealing that!

I saw the movie when i was 14 or 15 years old. I got in BIIIIG trouble when my folks found out I went to an R rated movie. But one good thing. I had a friend who gave me a Quija Board. As soon as I got home I threw that damned thing out.

56 posted on 01/13/2017 12:34:33 PM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Gennie

Supposedly there were 4 nurses, and the other 3 didnt want to talk about it. So one told us that even weeks later after the boy was discharged the lights would turn on and off and there was a really evil vibe about the room, like you want to enter the room but you just won’t or dont want to..


57 posted on 01/13/2017 12:36:03 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: nwrep
Why is Mount Rainier in Maryland and not in Washington?

Because that's where it's at.

58 posted on 01/13/2017 12:39:22 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: D_Idaho

“Anyone ever see “The Ninth Configuration?” Another WPB screenplay that I always thought was thought-provoking. RIP”

It’s probably my favorite Stacy Keach movie, next to “Luther”.

He was funny in “Up In Smoke,”, though.


59 posted on 01/13/2017 12:49:33 PM PST by DrPretorius
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To: Cecily

Fell madly in love with Linda Blair when that movie came out (I was ten). She has been one of my crush’s ever since.


60 posted on 01/13/2017 12:59:10 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Somewhere Jeb weeps. (please clap))
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