 But he certainly did in this case. As we pick up the conversation, Jim talks to Jack Linklater about his early background. Were your parents divorced? Well, my mother died when I was five. I knew there was some. And then my father remarried later. And then there was divorce after that. And you left home quite young. You went in the Merchant Marines. Yeah, I was in the Merchant Marine when I was 16. And I was more or less on my own a little bit before that.