The Exorcist (film) shot that obscured his face, as Friedkin felt that Vandis's face would be connected with his previous role in the Woody Allen film "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)". Vandis had previously played Milos Stavros, an Armenian shepherd who was in love with a sheep. Warners had approached Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, and Mike Nichols, to direct, all of whom turned the project down. Originally Mark Rydell was hired to direct, but William Peter Blatty insisted on Friedkin instead, because he wanted his film to have the same energy as Friedkin's previous film,
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film) of a large mass of white rabbits, to the tune of "Let's Misbehave" by Cole Porter. The film consists of seven vignettes, as follows: The film holds an 89% "Fresh" rating of on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews. An August 1972 review by "Time" said that many of the film's ideas "sound good on paper" but that the "skits wind down rather than take off from the ideas"; the film includes "some broad, funny send-ups of other movies ("Fantastic Voyage", "La notte"), and its fair share of memorably wacky lines" but that "overall it is