Exorcist II: The Heretic mind". "Variety" wrote: ""Exorcist II" is not as good as "The Exorcist." It isn't even close." BBC film critic Mark Kermode stated: ""Exorcist II" is demonstrably the worst film ever made. It took the greatest film ever made and trashed it in a way that was on one level farcically stupid and on another level absolutely unforgivable. Everyone involved in this, apart from Linda Blair, should be ashamed for all eternity." Vincent Canby, writing in "The New York Times", was similarly dismissive: Given the huge box-office success of the William Peter Blatty-William Friedkin production of "The Exorcist," there had to
The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book which rekindled interest in 1950s baseball. Brendan C. Boyd is co-author of The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading And Bubblegum Book. Brendan wrote another book, published in 1993, titled "Blue Ruin: A Novel of the 1919 World Series". According to the back of "Blue Ruin", "Brendan Boyd is a native of Boston who now lives in Paris with his wife, Elaine." In the introduction to the 1991 reissue edition of "The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book," he noted that his car had been stolen, and along with it his baseball card collection. Fred C.