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Linda Blair Trivia
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- Flew to Florida to attend funerals for members of the band Lynard Skynard, when an acquaintance convinced her to go with her and buy cocaine. Blair reportedly went because she was interested in buying pedigree puppies which the dealers were supposedly selling. Blair reportedly bought cocaine, and then returned to Connecticut. She kept in touch with the dealers, supposedly because she wanted the puppies, but the Drug Enforcement Agency was tapping the phones. They arrested Blair, along with 30+ others, and charged her with conspiracy to buy the cocaine in Florida and sell it in Connecticut. Police searched her purse, found amphetimines, and then charged her with possession. The possession charge was dropped, and the conspiracy charge was reduced. She received 3 years probation.
- Received death threats after "The Exorcist" premiered. Warner Brothers, the studio which released the film, hired the police to live with the Blair family for 6 months. The culprit was never caught.
- Dated Rick James. James' 1983 hit, "Cold Blooded," was supposedly about his and Blair's brief romance.
- Did all of her own skating in Roller Boogie (1979) and consequently developed bursitis in her hip.
- Her frightening turn as Regan MacNeil in "The Exorcist" was ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's villains list of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.
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