{"id":12892,"date":"2023-08-07T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12892"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T22:13:35","slug":"william-friedkin-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/07\/william-friedkin-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"William Friedkin Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/william-friedkin-dead-the-exorcist-1235689676\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/william-friedkin-dead-the-exorcist-1235689676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Variety<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"section-heading\">William Friedkin, \u2018The Exorcist\u2019 Director, Dies at 87<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/author\/carmeld1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carmel Dagan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"French Connection full car chase scene\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4mgIDVwdD-M?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/william-friedkin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Friedkin<\/a>, best known for his Oscar-winning \u201cThe French Connection\u201d and blockbuster \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-exorcist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Exorcist<\/a>,\u201d died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His death was confirmed by Chapman University dean Stephen\u00a0Galloway, a friend of Friedkin\u2019s wife\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/sherry-lansing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sherry Lansing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His final film, \u201cThe Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,\u201d starring Kiefer Sutherland, is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola and Hal Ashby, Friedkin rose to A-list status in the 1970s, part of a new generation of vibrant, risk-taking filmmakers. Combining his experience in television, particularly in documentary film, with a cutting-edge style of editing, Friedkin brought a great deal of energy to the horror and police thriller genres in which he specialized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/william-friedkin-dead-the-exorcist-1235689676\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/william-friedkin-dead-the-exorcist-1235689676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Variety<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Variety William Friedkin, \u2018The Exorcist\u2019 Director, Dies at 87 By\u00a0Carmel Dagan Director\u00a0William Friedkin, best known for his Oscar-winning \u201cThe French Connection\u201d and blockbuster \u201cThe Exorcist,\u201d died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 87. His death was confirmed by Chapman University dean Stephen\u00a0Galloway, a friend of Friedkin\u2019s wife\u00a0Sherry Lansing.\u00a0 His final film, \u201cThe Caine Mutiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}