Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 22

Arusiantr Mtwn'-j rswEWvsj BMmMSD BKEODIB 11-lMT ALEXANDER WAXjKERThe New Films All for Love SIXTY-TWO ago a tPu JVi tV- A'- lW- 1 four years later say the posters for THE EXORCIST THE HERETIC (West End and London release: Cert 102 mins) and Warner Bros are still worried about the state of Linda soul Can another search be made of it and will it be healthy for the box office as last time? What do you do to be that little bit more shocking in flushing out Satan? Can the neck stand another twist? Should Ken Russell be consulted? Quick men before the trend ends The result this sequel to The Exorcist amply demonstrates the perils of returning to the scene of the original sin When the Devil was paying his original visit on Linoa in 57 photogenic varieties of fleshly torment we knew where we were At the kind of hokum Hollywood does well This time round trying to turn a horror comic into a thinking theology seminar afflicted by the kind of pseudo-seriousness that Hollywood equipped to do at all Give me the green Idle anytime determined little girl of 15 chaperoned by a Miss Delano who was a lodger at her got on the old red Pacific-Electric tramcar that was Hollywood's main means of transport and rode out to the Tom Mix studio to look for work Working with cowboys is said the receptionist there concerned for her tender years Mr he makes So they went over to the great Griffith who imperiously surveyed the child and asked why she had came "Mama said I trained to do hing so there was nothing -for me but was the reply Bessie Love now nearly 80 has been acting ever since and her memoirs FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH LOVE (Elm Tree £5-95) passes on both her enjoyment and her uniqueness It really is a book that everyone will like not Just movie buffs it is as direct and truthful as that first reply which landed her a Job Marvellous glmpses of tha movies in their age of innocence: Doug Fairbanks Snr always talked In exclamation William do Mille are you? Bessie asked him once he replied): Jack Benny taking her out of his pocket in a crick shot for Hollywood -Revue the making of Broadway Melody The Lost World ana an astonishing list of LINDA BLAIR the Devil it going on? Doubt Into California earn their overtime and Richard sets of classy psychiatric clinics (Charles Eames chaise-longues for the patients) and luxury penthouses give the movie a visual cohesion at odds with the re-jigged look of the rest of its soya John Boorman is to be admired for making the effort to produce another sort of Exorcist but consoled at the Linda feds the pain back in New York has to walk over a spiked welcoming mat to consult a medicine-man (James Earl Jones) and finally tears the heart out of a demon in Washington DO (a much pubupon city in recent annals of evil) while Warner Brothers' set falls down round him In the original ending he survived But bowing to audience they reportedly threw things at the screen the makers now throw the game to the DevlL He Is the only winner Apart from being incomprehensible much of the time the film is pretentious all of and a sin far harder to forgive than the vulgarity of the original freak show I am not saying it an now and then the 1000 itish-hred locusts imported Von Sydow the priest who took on Satan last time and lost Burton links up with a lay ally an over-relaxed psychiatrist played by Louise Fletcher treating Linda The two put their heads together literally in a sort of self-hypnosis session which conjures up the tortures of the damned and possibly migraine sufferers too Frankly not much fun watching two people with bands round their heads talking each other through a count-down to Hell even when Max Von Sydow eventually appears making what I guess call a ghost rattier than- a one Things look up when Burton is afflicted by a plague of locusts starts tracing demons in Africa gets stoned by the oast successes mg a series of sequels like Jaws II Godfather II That's Entertainment Exorcist and soon no doubt Star Wars IL before most people outside Amerloa have even seen Star Wars In short is done bv numbers: think of a hit then do It again and if the market will stand it again The woeful results in cash terms as well as art are well exemplified by The Heretic I don't know If we deserve the Good protection from things that go bump in the night after all we had fun the first time round But my fervent feelings after seeing the sequel were a prayer: for protection from Hollywood things that go double-bump pull tote te Richard casting as a Jesuit priest shows how its been out of its class He behaves if ho expected Mr Grahame Greene to be vetting the state of bis spiritual underwear Possessed what he is Not by the Devil (not yet) but by Doubt As who be when young girls whom he detected as neighbourhood witches keep on self-igniting themselves at his services? A bad sign Assigned by the Missing Souls Bureau to find nut what happened to Max movies (117 of them) right up to John Sunday Bloody Sunday and Dick Lesters The Rita Bessie Love went baric to Hollywood this year with Kevin Brownlow who has done the book's affectionately prerise introduction and found the sa me Mias Delano who had chaperoned her on that lucky day in 1915 you know she changed a she says But -not of course v'- Bessie Love is the One-who changed success which is what the movie colony now seems to spend its working life attempting to da This is why The Heretic Is such a bad omen It is the of a movie Industry renew itself creatively simply trying to cash In on XSBSS 22 OFFICE YACAHClES-contd (from Page 15 Column S) LLOYDS INSURANCE BROKER inquires FIGURE TYPIST COPY TYPIST JUNIOR CLERK JUNIOR BOOKKEEPER Must be well educated Excellent opportunities- Good salaries plus 5 Op lvs Small expanding firm In Miaorias ECS Previous office experience desirable 930 to 530- Pfsasa ring 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