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After months of rites of exorcism by priests-including Georgetown priests-the demon appeared to be expelled.
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John Glavin says what he’s heard is that The Exorcist filming on campus was a special favor to the film’s screenwriter, William Peter Blatty (C’50), who developed the screenplay from his bestselling horror-thriller novel of the same name.īlatty, who died in 2017 at age 89, always told the story that in a New Testament class in White-Gravenor he heard about a case in the DC area of a boy who seemed to be possessed by a demon. Georgetown doesn’t have a history of allowing filming on campus, so The Exorcist and West Wing are rare exceptions. “Georgetown manages to come across as both elite and accessible, apparently a winning combination.”įilming campus scenes for The Exorcist took more than two months in fall 1972, including a production crew in Dahlgren Quad. John Glavin (C’64), professor of English and himself a screenwriter, says, “Georgetown-neighborhood and school-is a code word in the larger world for ‘elite.’ So if you want to suggest a story with an elite edge, Georgetown is a much more likely place to do that than almost any comparable school.”Įlite, but not snobbish, Glavin adds. “LA is fascinated with DC, its opposite.” “Both LA and DC are company towns,” Cook adds. “I think that Georgetown appeals to Los Angeles-based producers because it is East Coast, old and prestigious, but not an Ivy,” says Bernie Cook, (C’90, G’91), associate dean and founding director of Film and Media Studies in the College. Why do producers choose Georgetown? What does the university represent in the public’s imagination? Why is pop culture drawn to Georgetown? They are characters who desperately want to attend Georgetown, who enroll, meet, fall in love and graduate, especially in a popular 1985 film in which the plot hinges on recently graduated “alumni” suffering great angst about their post-college fates and encroaching adulthood. Zoey Bartlet is one of many fictional Georgetown alumni you’ve seen in TV shows and on film.
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The fictional first daughter of President Josiah Bartlet on the TV show West Wing graduated from Georgetown in 2003-a scene shot on Healy Lawn in the first on-campus filming since The Exorcist in 1972. The popularity of the film made Hoya Tombs regulars complain they couldn’t get a seat. Elmo’s Bar was modeled after The Tombs, it was filmed on a set crafted to look like The Tombs’ interior. Elmo’s Fire starred Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Mare Winningham and Andrew McCarthy as seven close Georgetown alumni facing adulthood together.