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How The Real Exorcist Helps Hollywoodguy adamsLOS ANGELES, 26 MARCH: When Sir Anthony Hopkins agreed to add to the list of terrifying characters on his CV by playing an Italian exorcist in the horror film, The Rite, he decided that a bit of actorly research might be in order. So he whisked Father Gary Thomas away from his comfortable home in Silicon Valley, California, to spend a week on the movie set in Budapest. Father Gary is a bonhomous 57-year-old who ministers over the Sacred Heart parish in the town of Saratoga, a suburb of San Jose. But outside his day job of saying Mass and hearing confession, he boasts an intriguing second career: as Californias leading campaigner against …