William Peter Blatty News

The most recent inmate is Capt. William Cutshaw , a star astronaut who aborted a planned mission to the moon at the last minute and was dragged out of the space shuttle, raving incoherently all the while.

The spinning head, the naughty cross, the pea soup - none of that will be in this special performance of "The Exorcist." While most people are familiar with William Friedkin's 1973 masterpiece, that film is actually an adaptation of William Peter Blatty's novel.

He's 81. of Paul Revere Dick, 71. He and Mark Lindsay formed Paul Revere & The Raiders in 1960.

William Peter Blatty was born on Jan. 7, 1928, the son of Lebanese parents who immigrated to Brooklyn in the early 1930s.