One of the strangest Hollywood deaths was that of Natalie Wood, who died at 43 years old on November 29, 1981. Along with her husband, Robert Wagner, and his costar, Christopher Walken, Wood sailed from Los Angeles to Catalina Island. ... Twenty years later, son Brandon Lee was poised to fulfill the family destiny of stardom when a prop malfunction caused him to be fatally shot on the set of "The Crow." Rumors of a curse on the Lee family have persisted ever since. ...
I had learned the valuable lesson that a deep copse of woods is nature's own air-conditioning, bringing up coolness from deep underground and protecting that coolness from the glaring sunlight above with a thick and lush canopy above ... I sat on the front porch and on a picnic table out front many a days with kindly Leon, enjoying the cackle and occasional word from his pet crow. Being 5 when first brought to this Eden, I was technically an adoptee to the country life, ...
