When in Rome … Roam Like Flynn
To the Cinecitta, where he filmed Crossed Swords, to the Via Margutta, where he joined Bohemians at the legendary Caffe degli Artisti:
Caffe degli Artisti via Margutta
Errol at the Cinecitta – helping to pave the way for Spaghetti Westerns, with his spectacular Spaghetti Swashbuckler, Crossed Swords.
— Tim
zacal
July 15, 2015 at 7:35 pm
“Spaghetti Swashbuckler”? That’s very clever. Did you just coin a new term/genre?
Gentleman Tim
July 15, 2015 at 10:50 pm
, zacal. Yet another genre that Flynn excelled at! It was a new term to me, but I just checked the net now and see that it has been used several times over the years. …
Since the “Spaghetti Swashbuckler” term has been used, and since Errol likely frequented Alfredo’s during his Hollywood in the Tiber heyday (evidently finding fettucini superior to spaghetti), we could coin a new name for his Cinecitta contributions to cinematic history. Perhaps this phase of Il Maestro Errol’s career could be referred to as the “Fettucini Films of Errol Flynn”.
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More from Crossed Swords at Cinecitta
shangheinz
July 16, 2015 at 7:37 pm
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Another prez following Flynn`s footsteps.
David DeWitt
July 17, 2015 at 7:21 pm
Dear Friend, and Flynn Brother in Arms, Karl Holmberg writes to me this morning:
Ahoy David-
Good sleuthing on Shangheinz’s part in finding the JFK /Alfredo photo!
I’d like to share some particulars on this photo posted at the blog today. This is the REAL person Alfredo di Lelio who invented the famed pasta. Further, this photo is labeled with the following (same) information that I found on 2 different internet sources:
“John F. Kennedy getting served fettuccine by Alfredo Di Lelio at the restaurant Alfredo in Rome, 1963”.
There was something about this not quite al dente, and further checking revealed he following: I submit that the photo is of then SENATOR Kennedy and that the reported year is off by a DECADE: it should read 1953. Also di Lelio passed in 1959 so could not have been a part of ANY photograph taken in 1963.
Karl
PS This stirs an old memory: I remember hearing the story, from someone who would know, that supposedly Kennedy would not give autographs and… had the reputation for only paying his dining bills by check… the idea being his checks wouldn’t be cashed for want of the autograph and… I heard this in connection with a visit to Alfredo’s in NYC (open in 1977) and in viewing a photo of JFK with Alfredo, I believe… this same photo.
Gentleman Tim
July 19, 2015 at 7:31 am
Grazi mille for that inside info!! Fantastico! … Looks like we can add Alfredo’s famed fettucini to the things EF & JFK each loved – women, sailing & adventure.
Pasta la vista,
TR
David DeWitt
July 19, 2015 at 3:08 pm
These pictures just make me HUNGRY!
shangheinz
July 21, 2015 at 8:04 am
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Hollywood on Tiber right here:
www.alfredo-roma.it/galleria/index.html…