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,
Sexual revolution to transform "Cosmopolitan" magazine into a life manual for young career women.) In 1969 Joan Garrity, identifying herself only as "J.", published "The Way to Become the Sensuous Woman", with information on exercises to improve the dexterity of one's tongue and how to have anal sex. The same year saw the appearance of Dr. David Reuben's book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)". Despite the dignity of Reuben's medical credentials, this book was light-hearted in tone. In 1970 the Boston Women's Health Collective published "Women and Their Bodies" (which became far better known