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,
Paul L. Williams (author) career by writing articles on Catholicism for National Review and serving as the senior editor for The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. His first book, "Everything You Always Wanted To Know about the Catholic Church But Were Afraid to Ask for Fear of Excommunication" was published by Doubleday in 1989. In "The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World", he expands on the "American Hiroshima" scenario he believes to be imminent, in which simultaneous nuclear attacks on 7 to 10 American cities would create havoc in American society. "The Vatican Exposed", published in 2003 became the subject