The Trusty Trustee

I thought I was done five years ago managing my late parents’ estate, but it seems a trustee’s work is never done. This came from American Express to correct an error they made in my father’s account.

So that’s $0.16 each for myself and my five siblings, and I’ll keep the extra four cents for my fee. But uh, oh. There’s no such account as The Estate of George Pratt, and as there was no formal dissolution process for the trust, I don’t know what its legal status is. I vow to earn those four extra cents by devoting myself full-time to the resolution of this pressing financial matter!

George’s Providential Clock

A tip o’ the Dog Rat toupee to Denro for pointing out this item. It explains what the object is on the back of the Beatles “Now and Then” single, and its surprising connection to the song.

Phone rings. It’s Paul, reminding me of this third song that was on the cassette tape with Real Love and Free As A Bird. He said, ‘The song, it’s called Now And Then.’ I’m standing there with the phone… looking at the clock that said, ‘Now And Then’, and I was sort of dumbfounded.

https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/why-george-harrison-approved-of-the-beatles-now-and-then/

Who Was Barbara Loden?

I hadn’t heard of or seen Barbara Loden until today, when catching Wild River on the Movies! channel. My fault for having never watched Splendor in the Grass. I’m ambivalent about Elia Kazan, who directed both of those movies. He named names in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Kazan, old enough to be Loden’s father, must have had a thing for her, because they were married in 1967.

Loden’s self-made independent movie Wanda, about the rough life of a working class woman, has been hailed since its premiere in 1970. It’s available on the Criterion Channel, but I haven’t watched it yet. You can watch it here until when or if it’s yanked off of YouTube.