Pamelyn Ferdin voiced Fern Arable, the little girl who raises Wilbur the pig, in the 1973 animated film "Charlotte's Web". Ferdin was considered for the role of Regan MacNeil, the demon-possessed girl in the 1973 William Friedkin film "The Exorcist", but casting directors decided she was too well-known and cast the then-less-familiar actress Linda Blair. She withdrew from acting in the mid-1980s, but did voice the character of Shelley Kelley in the Kids' WB series "Detention" in 1999. After leaving her job as a public relations director in the mid-1990s, Ferdin began working for the Center for Animal Care and Control in
The Exorcist (film) original music by Steve Boeddeker, as well as brief source music by Les Baxter. What is now considered the "Theme from The Exorcist", i.e. the piano-based melody which opens the first part of "Tubular Bells", the 1973 debut album by English progressive rock musician Mike Oldfield, became very popular after the film's release, although Oldfield himself was not impressed with the way his work was used. In 1998 a restored and remastered soundtrack was released by Warner Bros. (without "Tubular Bells") that included three pieces from Lalo Schifrin's rejected score. The pieces are "Music from the unused Trailer", an 11-minute