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William Peter Blatty was pounding out the first pages of "The Exorcist" when his telephone rang – bringing the news that his mother had died. The screenwriter was already digging into dark ...

It was 2013, four years before Blatty's death, and our conversation focused on the 40th anniversary of the film that brought him an Academy Award, for adopting his novel for the big screen.