I also have the same obsessions over dead actors and musicians as any other blog. Buster Keaton is one of my top dead husbands, I will probably name anything after him be it cats, dogs, plants. I feel like I'm the only one who enjoys spacing out to any Pink Floyd album, yes even while driving. Sometimes I yearn for a different era then remember that it's not possible to time travel so I continue living and I post my feelings about this on tumblr. WELCOME TO MY BLOG IF YOU HAVEN'T UNFOLLOWED ME BY NOW YOU'RE IN FOR A TREAT!
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Favorite Movies - Fight Club (1999).
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Monday Morning Memorial Day Mystery!
Buster Keaton’s WWI “Career at the Rear” is well-known to his legions of fans. Just as his star was on the rise with Roscoe Arbuckle’s Comique film company, Buster was shipped off to serve as a cryptographer in France with the 159th Infantry Company C, 40th Division. He spent the rest of the war writing Morse Code, and remained in France several months after the Armistice entertaining troops and wounded as they waited to be shipped back home.
In Keaton’s biographies, most authors and researchers state that Buster was drafted. Of the 4 million Americans who served in the WWI armed forces, over 2.8 million were draftees. Nonetheless, I recall having read somewhere that Buster had first tried to enlist and was turned down because of his missing fingertip and small stature. Buster’s own biography confirms that the Army wasn’t prepared to outfit a 5’5” fella, because his uniform was ridiculously large and his boots were 2 sizes too big. He apparently served his entire European tour in his baggy duds – he didn’t get one that fit until he was shipped back home and paid for it himself. He was issued a gun despite the fact that he was missing the end of his trigger finger.
The Selective Service Act of 1917 went into law on June 5, 1917. Buster apparently wasted no time in signing up, as his draft registration card is dated June 15th. (That’s pretty prompt considering it would have taken several days to get the forms disseminated and registration posts set up). According to Wikipedia, Secretary of War Newton Baker drew the first draft number on July 20, 1917.
Whether he was drafted or enlisted, Buster Keaton reported for duty in Long Beach, CA on July 7th 1918. Available data shows that scant few American silent-film era stars served active duty in WWI. Those who did serve seemed to have done so before their film careers began, or they served after the Armistice was signed. I’m sure there are exceptions, but I can’t find any info on anyone of Buster Keaton’s ilk who left a successful job as an actor and co-director to go and fight a war. Granted, Buster wasn’t a top-billed celebrity in 1918, but he had already completed 12 two-reelers with Roscoe Arbuckle and was well-connected with the Schencks & Talmadges by that time. Had he wished to avoid serving, I’m certain that Keaton could have gotten a deferment based on his hand injury or a Class III exemption (registrants who provide sole family income for dependent parents and / or siblings under 16) because he was the sole provider for his family at the time he went to war. Hollywood was no stranger to exemption “scams” either – Jack Pickford (Mary’s brother) was involved in a scandalous scheme that allowed rich young men to avoid service by paying bribes.
We may never solve the “drafted vs. enlisted” mystery, but in the end it’s not important. Buster served honorably, damned near lost his hearing, came home half-starved and went right back to work making the most incredible films ever seen. During WWII, Buster served with the the California 1st Evacuation Regiment of the California State Guard and worked in the Hollywood Canteen serving refreshments to the troops (and doing dishes, according to Orson Welles).
Here’s to you, Buster, on Memorial Day and thanks to all the men and women of the Armed Forces!
I’m pretty sure he was drafted. All men 21 to 35 years of age where required by law to register for the draft starting June 5 1917. I was surprised the Army took him with part of his finger missing but I guess they figured if he can do all those crazy acrobatics he can fire a weapon. Or the Army was desperate. Btw those uniforms never fit anyone right unless you get them tailored.
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In honor of Memorial Day, here’s our favorite man in uniform!
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So if a nerd is someone who is completely engrossed in video game and comic etc culture then what would you call someone who is completely engrossed in science and math and junk?
You can tell that you’ve been watching too much It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia when everything you read is in Danny DeVito’s voice.
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Bob Dylan photographed on his 25th birthday (May 24, 1966) by Barry Feinstein in Paris.
Happy Birthday, Bobby!
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Happy birthday to a True Mo’Fuckin Badass.
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Kevin Spacey is:
Jimmy Stewart
Johnny Carson
Katherine Hepburn
Clint Eastwood
Sir Arthur John Gielgud
Marlon Brando
Christopher Walken
Al Pacino
and Jack Lemmon
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in drag for the Princeton Triangle Club, 1915-1916. And because he was such a free bitch, he was voted most beautiful Show Girl for the play “The Evil Eye” which he wrote the lyrics for and starred in.
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wow lost another follower?
that’s like five within the past month and i’ll tell you what, that’s a lot for me. you know how long it took to gain that many followers? a long time, man, a long time. i guess people don’t like bob dylan and lazy grammar.
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hands down the most beautiful human
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whenever i do this with my cats i only get the “why are you so weird” comment. i don’t get internet famous dammit.
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