![]() ![]() Blatty doesn’t recall what exactly happened with the first guest, but he remembers that he was gone after the first commercial. “I got into makeup and went into the green room.”Īs he waited for his brief appearance scheduled for the final minutes of the show, that “divine hand” intervened further. “I threw down my napkin and ran all the way,” he said, recalling the twist of fate. It seems a guest had suddenly dropped out of that night’s show and he was desperately needed. “She said to me, ‘Can you get over to the show, like, within minutes?’” Sometime after his dispiriting interview for the Cavett show, Blatty was having lunch at the Four Seasons with a woman from Harper & Row when she got a phone call. “I always believe that there is a divine hand everywhere,” said Blatty, who prior to “The Exorcist” had co-written such Blake Edwards comedies as 1964’s “A Shot in the Dark” and penned the screenplays to several films, including the 1965 adaptation of his novel “John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!” ![]() After doing a pre-interview for a possible guest appearance on “The Dick Cavett Show,” the interviewer told him not to hold his breath about getting a slot on the popular talk show because the host wasn’t keen on paranormal stories. ![]()
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