The other day while visiting with Mom, we watched the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian. Reading about the movie on IMDB, I learned that the ship, the Bounty, that was built for the movie eventually sank during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
One of the articles about Claudene’s death described this as a cruel twist of fate. That led me to the Dylan song Simple Twist of Fate. Near the end of the song (2:50 mark in video,) Dylan quotes the guy summing up his one night stand with the lady by stating “She shoulda caught me in my prime; She would have stayed with me instead of going off to sea.” How’s that for a coincidence? Now if I find out that Dylan ever met or knew Claudene Christian…….