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He says the evolution of his L.A. existence can be traced back to two people — Norman Lear and George Clooney — and two unsuccessful TV pilots.

The pilot floundered, but Kind maintained a relationship with Lear and his family in the years that followed.

In the front row, Anne Lear, who served for a year in Afghanistan and was recently named captain of the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, sat with her friend Debbie Johnson, captain of the local chapter of the American Legion.

King Lear, Daniel Plainview, Howard Hughes, late Richard Nixon, Dennis the Menace’s neighbor Mr. Wilson: All men who ended up more or less alone and believed that others’ failures, rather than their own decisions, required them to exist that way.

Founded and based in the small town of Willits, in Mendocino County, Lear Asset Management was founded by Trouette in 2012, according to state records.