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 Your Listeners Ever Wanted to Hear by Rush... But You Were Afraid to Play Everything Your Listeners Ever Wanted to Hear by Rush... But You Were Afraid to Play Everything Your Listeners Ever Wanted to Hear by Rush...But You Were Afraid to Play is a rare, promo-only LP by the Canadian rock band Rush, serviced to American radio stations in early 1977. Compiled by Rush's then-U.S. label Mercury, it has an AOR sampling of tracks from the band's second, third and fourth albums ("Fly by Night", "Caress of Steel" and "2112" respectively), bypassing selections from their 1974 first album, "Rush". "Rush" had received substantial airplay from FM stations, but their subsequent LPs had not,