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True. eBay is sometimes riddled with misleading titles claiming authenticity or being a “genuine” item. If a seller cannot provide a certificate of authenticity with the signatures from the auction warehouse that sold them, forget it. Also, look for forgeries on the certificates themselves.
Father Bowdern
Like the film, our site is possessed! Carlamae, how about just renting a Blu-Ray player for a week? Doe your “crap-country” offer that? 😉
Father Bowdern
COUNTDOWN: T-minus 6 Days, 3 hours, 41 minutes!
I’m glad you’ll pass, Regan. It appears it never sold, not even for charity. I’m sure it would be like having lunch with a doorknocker.
Father Bowdern
Okay, I’m going to order this or just stop by a local store, but I’m kinda bummed that the head is turning counter-clockwise vs. the clockwise the way we know it. Maybe that has been fixed or the head can be turned to rotate in either direction. (Maybe the casting was meant only for this directional rotation by NECA.)
Father Bowdern
Regan,
On occasion you’ll see some genuine items on eBay and elsewhere. Cap posted one on the snake-like tongues being owned by J.J. Abrams here. The fanged teeth were once on sale for Regan and Karras on eBay I believe.
It would be great to see owns what and who cared about keeping something a props from the film after they completed shooting. I can see where Max von Sydow or the late Jason Miller would have held on to the Holy Water bottles and I’m sure there were lots of them. Sometimes the studio warehouse will have sales like they did for the film Alien and Aliens which is where I got the original Alien chestburster from the film Aliens. Although I have not seen another one like it, I’m sure the props department created dozens of them, but this is the screen version (below).
Father Bowdern
That’s true, Cap. I’m sure that WB is going to drag this out long enough until Blatty passes away. Perhaps his heirs will continue to pursue it.
Father Bowdern
Oh, no, Regan’s window again! 😉
I still say we need the actual blueprints because the window thing that Jenny mentions is still up for fodder although I, along with others, have posted enough pics on here to show that it could not be feasible for an individual to jump down onto the Hitchcock steps from that window.
The scene with the cigarette blooper was a continuity issue and/or a filming of the scene several times and cutting the scene back into something better than any of the originals. Looping was more than likely used in post, especially considering it was an outdoor scene in a park with lots of noise.
It’s just like any other scene that’s pointed out. For instance, notice the glasses on tables in certain scenes of movies/television … once full, now half-empty, now fully, empty, half-full.
It’s a blooper. 🙂
Father Bowdern
Yeah, phallic symbols appear throughout the film or at least that’s what the media pinpointed in certain scenes. In particular, the posts on Regan’s bed when they are wrapped in padding during the exorcism scenes got some heat here in America when it first ran in 1973 and on. Honestly, I still struggle with finding a post that looks like an penis that I often laugh at what the media suggested.
But that animation you found wreaks of a big one and the film Titanic! 🙂
Father Bowdern
Justin,
Thanks for these updates. I wish I had time to surf, but you’ve found two gems. Let us know if the uploader shares more information. I would loved to have been in the cab when Vercoutere, Smith, and the cabbie played around with the spinning head dummy in NY. Just standing on a corner or walking in NY when the dummy drove by would have made me crap by pants.
Now please tell me, doesn’t that animated background screech of another phallic symbol? It doesn’t matter if you created it, it’s the fact that you found it! Bravo!
Father Bowdern
Justin rocks! I love to see anything someone sneaked behind the scenes. I especially enjoy the pick on Tumblr with Father Karras (von Sydow) rehearsing with Blair without her makup on. You posted that on September 7.
Justin, when is the document coming out and do you have the interview you can scan in?
Father Bowdern
Yes … this one is edited. If you haven’t click on “The Exorcist on Tumblr” link under Justin’s posts, it’s well worth your time. Justin has an incredible knack for capturing video clips at just the right moments. Look at the September 6th postings and you’ll see what Justin does with the bed scene. Naughty and extremely clever! I peed just a little from a laughing so hard. 😉
Damien,
You picked the very paragraph that makes me want to puke. Dietz is finding a way to tell her version of the “popular legend has it that Lana Turner was discovered sitting on a fountain stool at Schwab’s drugstore in Hollywood.”
I also didn’t know that Dietz discovered how nuclear fusion works! Next Dietz will be writing her memoir and talking about her Academy Award and Nobel Peace Prize that adorn her mantel in her “old monastery inhabited by ghosts!”
Father Bowdern
Another tie-in I forgot about. If you’ve seen the movie a few times, you will recognize these images elsewhere:
Father Bowdern
Thanks, hammer. For a really good laugh, please enjoy this site! Even her sister is well-known author!
Father Bowdern
Justin said:
Dietz certainly deserves credit for being one of the most iconic and frighting faces in cinema history (Captain Howdy), but she is not Regan.
She crosses the line when trying to take any credit away from Linda's brilliant performance.
Justy is right. I so adamantly agree that Dietz has milked her 12 seconds of camera time to the max. Actually, I believe that Captain Howdy is the icon, not Dietz at all. In fact, Dick Smith created the Captain Howdy icon with his brilliance and makeup talents. It wouldn’t matter whose face was chosen to put Smith’s concepts to work in the most effective manner as that face did in The Exorcist. After all, did Dietz really act? No. Anyone who can make a grimaced face and follow Smith’s guidance could have done that “part.†Dietz served her role as body double. She appeared in certain scenes that required adult strength and the ability to suffer the long hours of wearing Smith’s vomiting apparatus for hours on end.
I can guarantee that I will find her book a month after it’s published next to the outdated 90%-off Betty Crocker cookbooks and Fung Shui Sand Gardening books … that is, if the publisher prints that many.
When it drops to around 50 cents, it should make for wonderful page-turning laugh.
Father Bowdern
I always though the spitting scene was that of Blair vs. Dietz. Oh, never mind, eff it. According to Dietz, she starred in the whole movie and made it what it is today! 😉 I’m sure her tell-all book will be more detailed than anyone could imagine because she will have the legal rights to make claims regardless of the truth … fair communications act!
Father Bowdern
