[Perdogg]

He was on WMAL this morning for a whole hour. Silvie was on too!

[oh8eleven]

Blatty submitted to the Vatican a petition with thousands of signatures and a 120-page institutional audit that calls for the removal of Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit designations if it does not comply with every little rule in “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,”
About time ... good for him!

[EveningStar]

ping

[dynachrome]

The money quote:

” The last straw, he says, was Georgetown’s invitation of Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to be a commencement speaker in May of last year. Sebelius has a record of supporting abortion rights, and abortion is the issue that really sets Blatty’s nerves on fire.

He describes, his voice trembling, a particular abortion procedure in graphic detail.

He pauses. His voice is nearly a whisper.

“That’s demonic.”

(and of course, the writer doesn’t give the details of the demonic procedure)

[Hardraade]

Good man, that Blatty.

Even though some of the scare of the Exorcist was cheating (infrasound, made some of the first audiences ill).

[trisham]

Scariest book I’ve ever read. Good movie, too. Ellen Burstyn was excellent, as were Jason Miller and Max Von Sydow.

[Borges]

I’ve never liked that film. Crude as all get out.

[AppyPappy]

The Ring is scarier but The Exorcist was a bigger phenom.

Ironically, I went to high school with the person who played Anna Morgan in The Ring and I remember her telling me about being frightened by The Exorcist