![]() In his humorous 1973 memoir I’ll Tell Them I Remember You, Blatty notes how winning $10,000 on the show gave him enough money to quit his job and write full-time.īlatty loved a joke. The appearance would promote his 1960 book WHICH WAY TO MECCA, JACK? From Brooklyn to Beirut: The adventures of an American Sheik. The joke reached its apogee when in 1961 Blatty appeared as Prince Xeer on the Groucho Marx quiz show You Bet Your Life. ![]() That was him tossing jewels (fakes) about the place as he shimmied through town in the company of a pal acting as ‘FBI agent Frank Hanrahan’, who’d tell everyone he’d been ‘saddled by the State Department with the task of being “this pain-in-the-ass” Prince’s’ guide and bodyguard while he “cooled down” from some grave but unspoken problem back home.”īlatty, the New York-born son of immigrant Lebanese parents, could pull off the Arab language. One article, which appeared in the March 29, 1958, issue, was headlined They Believed I Was An Arab Prince – William Peter Blatty Poses As “Prince Xeer” For Ten Days – Gullible Hollywood Bows And Scrapes. The plot was to trick Hollywood notables. ![]() ![]() Blatty reasoned that King Saud had “around 30 sons” so who would question another one? In the late 1950s, Blatty wrote a series of articles published in the Saturday Evening Post about posing as Prince Khairallah el Aswad el Xeer, the wayward son of King Saud of Saudi Arabia on vacation in Hollywood. WILLIAM PETER BLATTY ‘THE EXORCIST’ AUTHOR WITH LINDA BLAIR – 1974 ![]()
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