‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood | Movies
IIt’s safe to say that James Baldwin was not a fan of The Exorcist. “That just doesn’t work,” he wrote in his 1976 memoir-criticism collection, The Devil Finds Work. “With the exception of Satan, he’s definitely the star.” William Friedkin’s 1973 horror may have wreaked havoc in theaters with its hit portrayal of a possessed […]