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Blatty and himself
With no major film studio prepared to fund The Ninth Configuration, Blatty decided to raise the film's $ 4 million budget by putting up half the money himself, and persuading the PepsiCo conglomerate to provide the remaining $ 2 million.

Blatty and start
William Peter Blatty claimed to have been the first person to start laughing at the theater at which he saw the film, only to be followed by the other patrons (" You'd think we were watching The Producers ").

Blatty and film
The Ninth Configuration, ( also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, " Killer " Kane ) is a 1980 American film directed by William Peter Blatty.
" Blatty and Friedkin would later collaborate on the film version of The Exorcist ( 1973 ), with Blatty as screenwriter / producer and Friedkin as director, before Blatty returned to Twinkle, Twinkle, " Killer " Kane.
As writer / director of the film, Blatty was promised complete creative control over the production by PepsiCo with only one stipulation: that the film had to be shot in Hungary ( PepsiCo had block funds in that country, and reinvested money from the film's production into a Pepsi bottling plant there ).
William Peter Blatty had cast him as Killer Kane in The Ninth Configuration ( also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane ), and the film was being shot in Budapest, Hungary.
Although the film did not win, Blatty did win a Golden Globe for the film's screenplay.
After initially poor box office returns in its test markets, Warner Bros. returned the film to Blatty and allowed him to take it to another distributor.
While William Peter Blatty, the author and screenwriter of The Exorcist, described Dominion as " a handsome, classy, elegant piece of work ", critical reaction to the film has nonetheless been mixed to negative.
Schrader ’ s film is the first to synthesize the elements of each one, whether intentionally or otherwise, and presents us with an Exorcist that owes as much to Friedkin as it does to Boorman and Blatty.

Blatty and would
As Blake Edwards and future The Exorcist creator William Peter Blatty began work on the script, they decided the story would be a good vehicle for the Clouseau character, and rewrote the script around the new premise.
The case would inspire author William Peter Blatty to write a novel about exorcism, titled The Exorcist.

Blatty and later
Blatty later wrote an article published in the Saturday Evening Post about meeting movie stars in Hollywood while posing as " Prince Xeer ", a fictitious blacksheep son of King Saud of Saudi Arabia.

Blatty and cast
For the central role of Colonel Kane, Blatty cast Stacy Keach ( another contender for the part of Father Karras in The Exorcist ).
Blatty had originally cast Nicol Williamson in the role of Kane, before deciding that the British actor was wrong for the part: " I was deluding myself.

Blatty and Jason
Blatty retained Jason Miller, who had played Father Karras in The Exorcist, for The Ninth Configuration.

Blatty and Wilson
* Twenty-five articles in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, edited by Jack Sullivan ( Viking 1986 ): " Arkham House ", " Charles Birkin ", " William Peter Blatty ", " Anthony Boucher ", " Fredric Brown ", " Robert W. Chambers ", " John Collier ", " Basil Copper ", " W. F. Harvey ", " Robert S. Hichens ", " William Hope Hodgson ", " Jerome K. Jerome ", " Henry Kuttner ", " Jack London ", " Kirby McCauley ", " Arthur Machen ", " John Metcalfe ", " Saki ( H. H. Munro )", " Steven Spielberg ", " The Supernatural: Belief and the Writer ", " The Twilight Zone ", " Edward Lucas White ", " Henry S. Whitehead ", " Colin Wilson "

Blatty and Nicol
He went on to play Kane in the 1980 movie The Ninth Configuration, written and directed by Blatty ; this role was itself intended for Nicol Williamson.

Blatty and Williamson
* 1997: William Peter Blatty and Jack Williamson

Blatty and writer
* January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American writer
* January 7-William Peter Blatty, American writer & filmmaker
Exorcist writer / producer William Peter Blatty and director William Friedkin both had no desire to involve themselves in an Exorcist sequel.
William Peter Blatty ( born January 7, 1928 ) is an American writer and filmmaker.

Blatty and /
Exorcist author / screenwriter William Peter Blatty said in the book Former Child Stars: The Story of America's Least Wanted that he had " no such recollection " of Plato being offered the role.
Playwright William Goodhart was commissioned to write the screenplay, titled The Heretic, and based it around the theories of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( the Jesuit paleontologist / archaeologist who inspired the character of Father Merrin when Blatty wrote The Exorcist ).
He also received a shared screenplay credit on Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, which received high praise from William Peter Blatty ( the author / screenwriter of The Exorcist ).
William Peter Blatty ( the author / screenwriter of The Exorcist ) said that watching Exorcist: The Beginning was his " most humiliating professional experience.
The critical reaction to Schrader's version is only slightly better than Harlin's version, but Schrader's version also received high praise from William Peter Blatty ( the author / screenwriter of The Exorcist ).

Blatty and director
In the 1950s, Blatty worked as the public relations director at Loyola University of Los Angeles and as the Director of Publicity at the University of Southern California.

Blatty and Exorcist
The Exorcist is a novel of supernatural suspense by William Peter Blatty, published by Harper & Row in 1971.
On October 31, 2010, Cemetery Dance published a special omnibus edition of The Exorcist and its sequel Legion, signed by Blatty ( ISBN 978-1587672118 ).
* Robbie Mannheim, a. k. a. Roland Doe, alleged demonically possessed boy who inspired William Peter Blatty to write the fictionalized book, The Exorcist
* William Peter BlattyThe Exorcist
In lieu of filming the novel, Blatty decided to rewrite it: " After The Exorcist, I decided that I could develop the story a great deal.
Blatty then developed The Ninth Configuration into a screenplay for Columbia Pictures ( Blatty did not want to work with Warner Bros. as he had sued that studio over his proper share of profits from The Exorcist ).
William Peter Blatty was inspired by a newspaper article about this case to write his novel The Exorcist.
This was the case on which William Peter Blatty based his novel The Exorcist.

Blatty and ).
This comedy-thriller is written and directed by novelist William Peter Blatty ( author of The Exorcist ).

himself and appears
On the surface, Andrew Carnegie appears to be a strict laissez-faire capitalist and follower of Herbert Spencer, often referring to himself as a disciple of Spencer.
That he was rich seems probable ; for he appears to have occupied himself for a time with commerce and afterward with agriculture ( Hullin 105a ).
The term ahimsa appears in the text Taittiriya Shakha of the Yajurveda ( TS 5. 2. 8. 7 ), where it refers to non-injury to the sacrificer himself.
The following year Ragnall appears to have returned across the Irish sea intent on establishing himself as king at York.
During the Dark Avengers ' arrival in San Francisco to enforce martial law and squelch the anti-mutant riots occurring in the city, Xavier appears ( back in his wheelchair ) in the company of Norman Osborn and publicly denounces Cyclops ' actions and urges him to turn himself in.
Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as and in some of his published writings.
Following the success of The Godfather, The Conversation and The Godfather Part II, Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now, an adaptation of Conrad ’ s Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia during the Vietnam War ( Coppola himself briefly appears as a TV news director ).
* Lang appears as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Le Mepris.
Indeed, it appears the Maker of the Stars himself, by clear arguments, admonished me to call these new planets by the illustrious name of Your Highness before all others.
It appears Louis had a strong sense of justice and always wanted to judge people himself before applying any sentence.
Yet another example of hubris appears in Aeschines " Against Timarchus ," where the defendant, Timarchus, is accused of breaking the law of hubris by submitting himself to prostitution and anal intercourse.
He also appears as himself in Def Jam: Fight for NY and UFC: Tapout fighting video games.
Having treated with both parties, and received lavish promises from them, he appears to have hoped to be Emperor himself ; but when the election came, he turned to the winning side and voted for Charles.
Voight made a cameo appearance as himself on the Seinfeld episode " The Mom & Pop Store " airing November 17, 1994, in which George Costanza buys a car that appears to be owned by Jon Voight.
As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.
It appears that Eldritch's plan is to preserve his own life essence housed in Mayerson's body while allowing Mayerson himself to die in Eldritch's place.
Clement appears to have conducted himself throughout his pontificate as the mere tool of the French monarchy, a radical change in papal policy.
" He also appears in a bigger role in the novel of the same name, appointing the main character Ezio Auditore da Firenze as a counselor and allying himself with the Assassin Order.
Perhaps in realisation of the implications of this, Richard then appears to have led an impromptu cavalry charge deep into the enemy ranks in an attempt to end the battle quickly by striking at Henry Tudor himself.
Samuel is also treated by the Classical Rabbis as a much more sympathetic character than he appears at face value in the Bible ; his annual circuit is explained as being due to his wish to spare people the task of having to journey to him ; Samuel is said to have been very rich, taking his entire household with him on the circuit so that he didn't need to impose himself on anyone's hospitality ; when Saul fell out of God's favour, Samuel is described as having grieved copiously and having prematurely aged.
Along with the addition of Robert Patrick to the main cast, the sequence used new images and updated photos for Duchovny and Gillian Anderson ( although Duchovny only appears in the opening credits when he himself appears in an episode ).
" He also appears briefly in both the 1997 John Woo directed Face / Off ( his single " Christiansands " is also played during his brief cameo ) as well as the 2004 Olivier Assayas film Clean, playing himself, and had a large role in the music video for " Parabol / Parabola " by Tool.
In the movie, Waits appears in a dream scene as himself, singing the ballad " You Can Never Hold Back Spring " and accompanying himself at the piano.

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