Hollywood loses one of its great directors. William Friedkin, who directed, among others, two straight massive box office hits in 1971's The French Connection and 1973's The Exorcist, has passed away at the age of 87:
"I don't think of myself as a star. I didn't set out to become a star, I set out to become a singer. I would have sung no matter what. The star part is just something that they made up in Hollywood in 1930."--Linda Ronstadt