But where did William Blatty go to school?
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Of couse, Mr. Pullella (the author of the Reuters release, and one of those “professional journalists”) couldn’t be bothered to do enough research to discover that the order of exorcist has been one of the minor orders of the Catholic Church for close to two-thousand years; all priests, I believe, attain the order of exorcist prior to their ordination as priests.
http://www.truecatholic.org/ordminor.htm
This is a bit OT, but as long as Roger brought up drama (in the broad sense), I’d be interested in his opinion of Pinter’s winning the Nobel Prize for literature.
Have I got a candidate for the school’s grads!
(with apologies for the blatant self-promoting)
Easy question: He was a Georgetown Hoya in the late 50s. In the movie the Exorcist, filmed in Georgetown, he gathered together all his old teachers and Jesuits and starred them in the dinner scene around the piano, and, then shoved the priest [or was it the demonic girl?] down the long flight of steel steps to M Street, NW. Many an inebriated Hoya fell at least part way down them. A common occurrrence. Right of passage and all that.