The Exorcist (film series) was refilmed by director Renny Harlin. However, Schrader's version received a limited release in 2005, after Harlin's, and was titled "". On January 22, 2016, 20th Century Fox Television announced they were developing a television series of "The Exorcist". It premiered on September 23, 2016. Based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty, "The Exorcist" marries three scenarios into one plot. The film opens with Father Merrin (Max von Sydow) on an archaeological dig in Al-hadar, near Nineveh, in Iraq. He is alerted that a small carving is found in the dig, resembling a grimacing, bestial creature. After talking
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.