Thoughts On Belgium

Ever wonder what happened to the young photographer from "Belgium"? She took my baby photo and flew back to Belgium (supposedly) in 1969 or 1970...suddely I was her "daughter". I believe she was confusing me with Cathleen "Fairclough" also from Oakland, NJ back then. I didn't even live on Tuscarora Drive yet, but Eagle Crest Drive as a toddler across from a "mafia family member", down the street from The Enrights and The Kittredges (if the boy had ALREADY been adopted). I have NEVER figured out who it was, but I believe that young photographer had actually been out in San Francisco, CA.

1968 or 1969 - I remember the accident caused by people rear-ending my Dad's rented car with my Mom in the front seat, me in the back and NO traffic ahead of us, but there WAS a yield sign and what looked like 15 - 20 19-wheelers headed under the 405 freeway southbound on-ramp bridge at the edge of Los Angeles near where the Ontario Airport traffic was originally planned. It is NOW part of LAX's greater neighborhood. There were SUVs on the opposite side of the freeway (a rarity in those days, except near the beach, the desert, and the base). Several movie cameras were in them and I believe that Marlon Brando was in one of them, I believe, along with someone who looked like like Dennis Hopper and a tall-looking dark haired Russian-looking person in the driver's seat of one of the SUVs. They were headed north up the Pacific Coast Highway, or into Santa Monica by the time my Dad had gotten out of the car. I remember jumping out of the back seat into the front to wake my Mom up, because she had suffered whiplash and I THINK had hit her head on the dashboard as more than 14 or 15 cars kept slamming in the each car that stopped. All I can remember is a guy with shoulder length hair jumping out and trying to pull me out of the rear of the vehicle ad he was drunk or his speech was slurred by something else. I had already screamed and locked locked all four doors to check on my Mom and Dad. He had pulled up the emergency brake and was standing on the brake. If ANY of those people EVER claims I died in a car wreck again, I am going to start finding out whose been spreading these rumours for so many year. I was 2 or 3 years old and that was one of my first memories of being followed by these camera-men. It's gone on EVER SINCE! We were visiting from Honolulu and WHAT a reception! And by the by, I am NOT your ghost writer! These people have followed us everywhere WITHOUT filming contracts....that clip of the car wreck was available in a movie that may have been in a film directed by a Russian-born woman out in California. I found it in Kim's Videos on Bleecker Street in New York City!