She played the sweet twelve-year-old touched by evil in the film version of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. Linda Blair, with more than a little help from the make-up department, horrified audiences in 1973. Cinema-goers actually threw up during and after the screening. Given what has appeared on our screens since, it seems unlikely that the same could happen today.
San Franciscans have a chance to find out this week, when The Bridge Theatre launches its midnight movie series. Linda Blair, looking rather better than her possessed self (see pic), will be on hand to introduce two of the movies she starred in. Friday's offering is the eminently forgettable Roller Boogie, of 1979 vintage.
The good news is that the outfit Linda wore in the film will be auctioned on Friday (10 July). Proceeds will go to the animal charity she founded: the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation.
But of course the bigger crowd is expected for Saturday's showing: The Exorcist, for which child star Blair won an Oscar. As they say, never bettered and seldom equalled, it's the film that sparked off a renewed interest in a Catholic rite that had rarely impinged on the public consciousness since the Middle Ages.
On both nights Linda will be taking questions from the floor.
Tickets can be ordered at https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/Landmark.aspx?TheatreID=222.
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