Linda Eastman-Kodak....not.
saki
>In article <1993Mar3.1...@kodak.kodak.com> di...@kodak.kodak.com (Pete x71689/PCE/4-23-KP) writes:
>>...I desperately need to know WHEN are the
>>tour dates for the Macca tour-stop in Toronto, Canada....
>According to my Macca Fan Club letter/schedule, Toronto is scheduled
>for Sunday, June 6th.
>p.s. Ironic -- you work for Eastman Kodak -- Linda's family started the
>Eastman part of that (her maiden name is Eastman).
Nope, sorry. Not even close.
This *is* a fairly widely spread misapprehension, though, so you're
in good company.
Linda's father's surname was actually Epstein. It had been changed to
Eastman when her family emigrated from Russia. They had absolutely
nothing to do with Eastman Kodak. Her mother's surname had been
Linder, and there was a chain of Linder clothing stores on the
east coast to which her mother's family was attached. But Linda
Eastman See McCartney is *not* an Eastman-Kodak heiress.
Linda's father was an entertainment lawyer who worked for the likes of
Hoagy Carmichael and Tommy Dorsey. Songwriter Jack Lawrence wrote a
song in 1947 called "Linda", which was actually inspired by the young
Miss Eastman; it was a hit by Buddy Clark at the time, and in 1963 or
so Jan and Dean revived it. It's a pretty lame song, so I won't quote
the lyrics, but Linda and her family had quite a brush with fame---though
not the photographic type---before she met Macca. It's ironic, I suppose,
that her chosen area of expertise was photography.
--
"Those who flock round The Beatles, who scream themselves into
hysteria, whose vacant faces flicker over the TV screen, are the least
fortunate of their generation, the dull, the idle, the failures...."
---------------------------------------------saki (dm...@math.ucla.edu)
George Nassiopoulos
>
>>p.s. Ironic -- you work for Eastman Kodak -- Linda's family started the
>>Eastman part of that (her maiden name is Eastman).
>
> Nope, sorry. Not even close.
>
> This *is* a fairly widely spread misapprehension, though, so you're
> in good company.
>
> Linda's father's surname was actually Epstein. It had been changed to
> Eastman when her family emigrated from Russia. They had absolutely
> nothing to do with Eastman Kodak. Her mother's surname had been
I remember reading many years ago, that news reporters at Paul McCartney's
wedding asked if Linda was related to the Eastman-Kodak Eastman.
When she said that she was not, Paul apparently jokingly said something
like "I've been had...Where's my money?"
george nassiopoulos
nas...@cfa.harvard.edu