(209) Escaping from Hell to "Be Linda"
On May 30th 2004 I started to watch our video copy of The Exorcist . It reminded me of how Murray Sharp had told me that in the early 1990s he was renting a London shop to an actress called Linda Blair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Blair I had reasoned that it had to be the girl who played the central character in The Exorcist . That triggered the memory of his having told me that he was also renting another shop to the British actress, Amanda Barrie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Barrie I switched the video off and rewound it at the scene where the words " Help Me " appear on the skin of the character Regan, played by Linda Blair. For she is possessed by a demon. Later that help does appear when Father Damien Karras, who, after showing some scepticism that this is a genuine case of possession, has been summoned to her bed to witness this manifestation on her skin. He assists with the exorcism to rid her of the demon. As a consequence of my halting the vi...