An Outstanding AFI Article on Movie Poster Maestro, Bill Gold, Who Worked On “Escape Me Never” and “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, and Many Other Classic Cinema Posters, from Errol to Eastwood.
— Tim
Archive for February, 2016
Errol’s Adventures of Robin Hood Voted One of Top Films for Children
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Feb
“From The Kid to Toy Story, cinema has given us thousands of indelible ways to entertain and stimulate children, and subdue the difficult ones. We all grew up with classics that have stuck with us: for some it was Pixar; others were weaned on the classics of Disney animation or Studio Ghibli’s fantasical otherworlds. But what should you be treating your kids to first? Glad you asked because we’ve done weighing up this very question. Tears were shed and hair was pulled but eventually we came up with 50 of the finest kids films in cinema. And, hey, we’re all friends again now.
Look in the dictionary for “swashbuckling” and you will find Errol Flynn’s broad-as-it-is-long smile grinning back at you. His effortlessly charismatic turn as the heroic outlaw is surely definitive screen version (sorry, Kevin), in a crowd-pleasing technicolour adventure that transcends its eight-decade age. Lavish production values, classical Hollywood starriness, and a cast of thousands – even cynical 21st-century children will be hooked.”
— Tim
Actin’ Like Flynn – Part 7 – The Crocketeer
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Feb
Have at it. The immortal Walt Disney must have spun in his grave (or cryogenic freezer) when he learned about his beloved studio’s viciously fictional attack on his friend Errol. Miscreant Chuckie Pigham spawned this despicably malicious misdepiction of Flynn. I hope the sick, jealous bastard is burning in hell.
What a shame. If they had made Errol the hero, it could have been an historically great film.
— Tim
Steve Hayes on Jack Marino Radio Show Replay!
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Feb
If you missed Steve Hayes appearance on Jack Marino’s radio show on LA Talk radio yesterday you can listen to the full show:
Steve Hayes is a wonderful raconteur and writer (just tuned 85 but looks and acts like a man in his 60’s) who is the author of a two volume autobiography about a period of his life in Hollywood as a young contract player at the studios, and his development into a successful screenwriter, and novelist, called Googies: Coffee Shop to the Stars. This was a favorite hangout of many legendary stars over the years and Steve knew many of them. In particular, he knew Errol Flynn and has a lot to say about him. Well worth your time to listen to him speak about those days with such candor and humor … I wish Steve would write another volume about his other many adventures around the world. He is in the best way, a man cut from similar adventurous cloth as was Errol Flynn, himself …
Steve Hayes Contract Player
Click to see this book on Amazon.com…
Click to see Steve Hayes books on Amazon.com…
— David DeWitt
Sean Rio recovering
15
Feb
I have been of the radar because we have been moving only to find that when I get back up and running that Sean has been run over by scum . A small ding turned nasty when the other driver got back in his car and run over Seans foot and other serious things. Very serious. Read below. All our love goes to Rory. Gideon and of course Sean. And it goes without saying our prayers.
Sean Flynn is hospitalized after being struck by a car and knocked into the air by a hit and run driver. According to Radar Online, Feb. 13, 2016, Sean and another driver had a minor accident and when Sean got out of his car to exchange information, the driver of the other car suddenly sped up and hit him.
A source told Radar online that Sean was on his way to attend classes at Valley College when he was involved in a minor traffic accident, but when he got out of his car to exchange information, the other driver rammed into him, knocking him into the air.
The source said that Sean got into a minor accident with another driver, who was driving what looked like a 2001 Grey Nissan Altima. “When Sean got out of his car to exchange paperwork, the driver of the other car gunned it at full speed and plowed right into Sean.”
The inside source continued, “The other car, who was driven by a young male with a female passenger in the driver’s seat, struck Sean head on, throwing him up in the air and over the hood before crashing into the ground.”
Sean Flynn is the grandson of the late Errol Flynn. His mother is Rory Flynn, former model and photographer and his dad is Gideon Amir, a famous Hollywood producer. Sean’s family has gathered around his hospital bed while Sean recuperates from several operations he’s gone through so far.
Rory described her son’s injuries. “Sean’s foot was almost severed off completely and right after the crash a bone is his leg was protruding through the skin. He also suffered multiple other broken bones.”
Several witnesses saw the car as it hit Sean and sped away. Although they recognized the make, model, and year of the car, they did not get the license plate number.
Sean is in good spirits as he took a selfie giving the thumbs up sign. When asked how he was, he told Radar Online something his Grandfather use to say,
“I file this under the banner of sh*t happens. Expect the unexpected.”
Sean Flynn, whose real name is Sean Rio Amir, was born on July 14, 1989, in Los Angeles California and he was named after his uncle Sean, who disappeared in Cambodia in 1971. He is best known for his role on the popular Nickelodeon show “Zoey 101.”
Police and Sean Flynn’s family are asking for help in finding the person responsible. If you have any information that can help in this investigation, please get in touch with the Los Angeles Valley Sheriff’s Station.
Our thoughts and prayers go out for Sean and his family as he recovers from this ordeal.
— tassie devil
”THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN” (1948)
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Feb
Awarded Oscar for Best Costume Design, Color to Leah Rhodes, Travilla, and Marjorie Best. The costumes are especially beautiful in Technicolor. – Celebrating the Academy Awards. This film was made due to the popularity of Flynn’s recent reissues of ”CAPTAIN BLOOD” (1935) ”THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD” (1938) and ”THE SEA HAWK” (1940) in 1947.
— Kevin Wedman
Ghostship Zaca II
14
Feb
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
while last time turned out to be an UFO sighting www.theerrolflynnblog.com…, this looks more like the rail deal.
Errol rented out his beloved yacht amongst others to Rita Hayworth and her pauper prince Aly
Khan, Mary Pickford and Orson Welles.
Check out the schooner at the 0:47 mark in the trailer of Roger Vadim`s frenetic flic “And God created woman”- do we have a Zaca Vu here?
Here is the whole film:
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Steve Hayes on the Airwaves!
13
Feb
SUNDAY, February 14, 2016 at 7PM PST & 10PM EST Jack Marino Warriorfilmmaker Show on www.latalkradio.com… on Channel 2
My guest is writer Steve Hayes, the British born Ivan Hayes first arrived in Hollywood in 1949 and moved there permanently in 1950. An actor for ten years, he worked in movies at MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Columbia, RKO, Universal Studios and the Samuel Goldwyn Studios as well as in early network television and radio.
While he was under contract at 20th Century Fox, the studio insisted Ivan find a more American-sounding name. He chose Steve, after the name of his friend Steve Reeves, a former Mr. Universe who later became world-famous as “Hercules.”
When not acting or writing books and screenplays, Steve helped support himself by working in restaurants and parking cars at Hollywood’s glamorous Sunset Strip nightspots like the Mocambo, Ciro’s, Villa Nova, and The Players. He also did detective work for the Fred Otash Detective Agency and painted movie stars’ homes and famous places like the Garden of Allah.
Then, in 1954, he became night manager of Googie’s, a popular coffee shop next to Schwab’s Drugstore that was made famous by James Dean, John Saxon, Natalie Wood, Rod Steiger, James Garner, Jayne Mansfield and other celebrities like western writer Louis L’Amour and Hollywood gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky.
During that time Steve befriended numerous movie stars like Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Alan Ladd, Lana Turner, Sterling Hayden and Robert Middleton, all of whom influenced his life and gave him material for his recently published two-volume memoirs, Googie’s: Coffee Shop to the Stars.
A world traveler, Steve has explored the Amazon river by small boat, dug for gold in Alaska, climbed Kilimanjaro, ridden elephants at India’s Tiger Tops game preserve, photographed the Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, been on safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa and trekked in Tibet and the Himalayas. In 1958 he went to Cuba, where he met Ernest Hemingway before joining the Cuban Revolution, led by Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Che Guevara and the American Army deserter, William Morgan.
An adventurous, oft-married raconteur, Steve still writes novels and screenplays and presently lives at the beach in Huntington Beach, California, with his lovely wife of twenty-five years, Robbin.
Steve just turned 85 on Jan 31, 2016
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Jack Marino’s Warriorfilmmakers Show
if you missed the LIVE show you can always go back to the archive and hear it then
Jack Marino’s Warriorfilmmakers Show
Show call in number: 1-818-602-4929
THANKS
Jack Marino
— David DeWitt
Actin’ Like Flynn – Part 6 – My Favorite Flynn
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Feb
A wonderful movie, with a magnificent opening (featuring Errol’s friend, Nat King Cole), featuring “Alan Swann/Errol Flynn” (“The Greatest Movie Star of All Time”). King Keyser/Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, and Jimmy Hoffa.
MY FAVORITE YEAR, from left: Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, 1982. ©MGM
P.S. That’s John Lennon’s apartment at The Dakota between “Errol” and “Mel Brooks”.
— Tim
