Just when you thought life couldn't get any weirder comes a tale you couldn't make up if you tried. Long story short, Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut, the fourth of opera singer Maestro Signorelli's five daughters and one-time bondage-film star, was married to the inventor of Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys (among other things), who died in 2003. A few years later, she licensed out part of the business to Big Time Toys, which she is now suing for breach of contract. Her lawyer is one William Timmons, and a particularly entertaining paragraph in this article describes an afternoon with him: "Our conversation easily swerved off topic and into, say, a debate about
Bill Maher’s atheism, or about how 'we are all individuals at the tail
end of a universe expressing itself,' or Timmons’s rock band, which
plays in the local bars under changing names like Rainbow Bridge and
Dreamworld. He likes 'renaissance' rock. 'It’s a convergence —
Lennonesque with Hendrix overtones and some Dylan, maybe "dinosauric" at
this point,' he told me. 'It’s altruistic, seeking the higher ground
instead of just lamenting upon the human condition.' " But believe me when I say that's not the half of it (story, slideshow):
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-battle-over-the-sea-monkey-fortune.html?_r=0
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