He said the embers took their beach house too. They wouldn’t have dared when Grammie was still alive …Marjorie Rindge Adamson-Huxtable nev­er left Malibu for any real length of time. The place was board­ed up when the old woman ran out of mon­ey in her decades-long war against land-grab­bing lawyers and politi­cians. Barbara Stanwyck shoul­da played Grammie May!’‘Miss Executor’ (Betty called her that some­times) got a kick too from the tales told by ‘Double-Wide’ (Marjorie called her that some­times). ‘That means pret­ty soon you can hire your son’s ass-wiper to help me out.’ The old woman laughed so hard her sides split.