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With three nominations and nothing to show for it, could this be the year HBO's critically acclaimed series The Sopranos finally gets its Emmy for best drama? Also: William Friedkin William Blatty Exorcist Diana Ross Civilian Pictures Inc Billy Dead Lloyd Braun Eminem Slim Shady Betty Thomas The Smoker Sigourney Weaver The Woods Johnny Messner Anacondas
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Actress Kate Hudson and her rock star husband, Chris Robinson, are expecting their first child early next year. Also: Britney Spears Halle Berry Kevin Costner Martha Stewart Jon Voight Deadly Course William Peter Blatty William Friedkin The Exorcist Spike Lee Spike TV TNN Russell Simmons Kid Rock Wayne Newton Renee Zellweger Piece of My Heart Janice Joplin
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The VH1 Big in 2002 awards honored some of the most memorable entertainment moments of the year Wednesday night at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. Also: Ice Cube Vin Diesel Sharon Osbourne The Excorcist William Blatty William Friedkin Kevin Smith David Zucker Scary Movie 3 Lilo & Stitch RealNetworks Inc. Starz Encore Group Steven Spielberg Presents Taken Sci Fi Channel Will Smith Jada Pinkett Smith Betsy Borns
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Nicolas Cage has filed for divorce from Lisa Marie Presley after three months of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. Also Bobby Brown Johnny Knoxville Bridget Wilson-Sampras Fabio Britney Spears The Exorcist William Peter Blatty William Friedkin Steven Seagal VeggieTales Big Idea Lasse Lallstrom Leonardo DiCaprio Bombshell
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An Internet reporter claims the Golden Globe-nominated film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe deliberately leaves out gay themes present in the biography on which the film is based
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William Peter Blatty "The Exorcist"
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Director William Friedkin and author William Blatty have sued Warner Bros., Turner Network Television and Turner Broadcasting System, claiming they were bilked out of cable profits for the 2000 re-release of The Exorcist.
Friedkin, who directed the film, and Blatty, who wrote the best-selling novel and screenplay on which the film is based, charges that AOL Time Warner gave cable rights for the revamped Exorcist to TNT and TBS for free. They are asking for unspecified damages.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20, 2000 -- This ain't your daddy's version of "The Exorcist." The most acclaimed and artfully done horror film is returning to U.S. cinemas on Friday, 27 years after its original release. With a full 11 minutes of never-before-seen footage, plus a fully reworked stereo soundtrack (with additional music and notched-up sound effects), "The Exorcist" feels, in many ways, just as contemporary today as when it was released (except maybe for the big lapels, sideburns and the slow pacing).
This isn't the "director's cut" of the film, but rather the "writer's cut." William Peter Blatty, who wrote the screenplay (based on his novel), has been lobbying ever since "The Exorcist" first came out to replace a handful of scenes that director William Friedkin filmed but edited out of the picture. (Read Hollywood.com's accompanying interview with William Friedkin.)
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2000 -- Seen any good Satanic-possession movies lately?
The granddaddy of all devil-in-me flicks, "The Exorcist," is set to return to a handful of U.S. theaters next month in an all-new expanded and restored version that contains "more than one full reel of long-rumored, legendary footage, excised before the film's original release," according to Warner Bros.
The new version isn't being billed as a "director's cut," but rather as an "author's cut." Director William Friedkin, who supervised the restoration, says this is the version that author William Peter Blatty (who wrote the screenplay, based on his novel) wanted to see back in 1973. Twenty-six years ago, Friedkin and the studio had other ideas. Now Friedkin's a convert.
"After viewing it a quarter of a century later I've come to agree with him," Friedkin says in a