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I got tagged by *suburbanbeatnik (https://www.deviantart.com/suburbanbeatnik) I know, I know; I've already done this meme, but I guess I'm full of myself. The rules are: 1. Post these rules 2. Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves 3. Tags should write a journal/blog of these facts 4. At the end of the post 8 more persons are tagged and named 5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged 1. I don't like tomatoes or tomato sauce, but I love tomato soup. 2. I have a set of pastels from the 70s (they belonged to my mom). 3. I got the chicken pox when I was seven. Around my birthday. 4. I have never been to the hospital for anythin

Yep, another star who bit the big one at a young age. Olive Thomas is one of my personal favorites. Not just because of when or how she died, but because she was truly beautiful and an interesting lady. One could say that Olive was a prototype of the flapper; she was a flapper before flapper was cool. She may have played a doe-eyed ingenue in her films, but off-screen she was rather, um, adventurous. Think Paris Hilton with natural good looks, talent, and intelligence. Of course, that's just the vibe I get from reading her biographies: her rocky, practically bipolar marriage to Mary Pickford's brother, Jack (who also died young from drugs),

I felt like doing another one. Don't worry, I'll try not to make it a daily habit. Speaking of habits, poor Wally Reid had a pretty bad one: morphine. You're probably thinking "oh, the Robert Downey Jr. of his time." While this was true for a lot of stars that could've benefited from an after-school special, Reid was more likely a victim of medical ignorance. Well, more like negligence. You see, while filming the now lost The Valley of the Giants in 1919, Reid was injured during a train wreck scene. His studio wasn't without sympathy, oh no, it's just that finishing the movie was a little more important than the actor's welfare. They were ev