Also featuring the acting talents of Dallas’ Larry Hagman and Star Wars’ Mark Hamill, the made for television movie starring Linda Blair of The Exorcist (previously) in the title role was first aired on the NBC network on this day in 1975. Dealing with isolation and loneliness, a fifteen-year-old takes after her estranged father, drinking to cope with feelings of inadequacy and begins to surreptitiously raid her mother’s liquor cabinet, having associated inebriation with greater social stability. Having passed out whilst babysitting and numerous interventions, Sarah can’t admit she has a problem until a near-fatal horse-riding accident (mortally wounding the horse, who is euthanised) and joins Alcoholics Anonymous. synchronoptica
one year ago: assorted links to revisit plus Planet Money Valentines
two years ago: an AI reimagines sci-fi comics panels, the Internet Sacred Text Archive plus more links to enjoy
three years ago: more links worth the revisit, bar sounds plus a unique file naming convention
four years ago: political engagement, Merkel’s would be successor steps down, gravity wells plus European emergency numbers
five years ago: the American Petrol-State, anosmia, medals for the Tokyo games to be made out of recovered specie from electronic waste plus the art of Andy Dixon