I’m not certain what happened to Dennis. I mean, it had to be tough growing up in Murry’s house. I don’t mean the man needed a little help. I believe the guy was just purely insane. But Dennis. I know the writers say that he was diving for stuff. But I think he was either too physically bankrupt to be doing that, or else he just gave up. And I have to admire Carl’s loyalty. Thanks for the little story about Brian. Makes me a little sad and melancholy.
Don’t be sad. I can tell you for sure that Brian was a very happy man that night. He was with his wife and his two young children (adopted, I think). He entertained them during dinner by telling them the plot of the Danny Kaye Walter Mitty movie! He seemed very gentle and nice.
I’m not that big of fan of Dennis - the crazy Manson connection and all that. I assume he drowned while loaded with booze and drugs. Didn’t the father sell the Beach Boys songbook for something like $70,000? What a maroon!
Dennis died a long, long time ago. He fell in the water by the boat in the Marina and never surfaced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wilson