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1. David DeWitt

   March 5, 2017 at 3:58 pm

   I miss Linc so much … Our emails and phone calls were marathons and our laughter and sometimes our tears were genuine and heartfelt. I never knew anybody with a mind as sharp as his or the ability to take the complex tapestry of Flynn’s life and make it into a razor sharp insight in so many ways. He left us so much and left too soon …

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2. Maria

   March 6, 2017 at 12:33 am

   Linc surely was a wonderful person. I like to think of him now sitting and having a great conversation with Errol. It’s tough when you lose a friend.

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3. Jack Marino

   March 7, 2017 at 5:18 am

   I knew Linc for over twelve years, we had a great friendship. We spent almost everyday on the phone talking Flynn, movies, Hollywood, religion, politics he was a great and generous friend. We came up with the idea a long time ago to do three books on Flynn, one being base solely on the Spanish Civil War dairy which he ended up buying and thank God he did. He was determined to make sure Hingham didn’t get his hands on the original diary, since it was all written in pencil. Who know what changes Hingham would have made up to back up his scandalous book full of lies. The second book was the one that is on this page. I don’t know how many cover designs I came up with during those days. Years later when I introduced Linc to Deirdre she ended up selling him her mother’s collection of photos. The photo of Errol on the cover of the book was Errol’s second green card photo. Linc had both originals, the 1934 and the 1942 right before Errol became a US Citizen. In those days I had a pretty rare collection of a lot of color stills of Errol and Linc was building his vast collection. The third book was going to be a coffee table book full with all these rare photos that both Linc and I had along with a few others. It just too bad that Linc never got to finished these books. i always told him that the 2nd book would have been the definitive book on Errol Flynn and would have total destroyed those awful books. I can only imagine what information Linc would have gathered from Steve Hayes after I had introduced them and they were talking through e-mails.

   Linc was a good friend and he would stay at my home when he was here in Los Angeles and I would get all the Mulholland Drive Boys together to sit and talk to Linc, which he really enjoyed. We had our differences but I would have loved to invited him to the Errol Flynn’s 100th Birthday party that Louise and I threw at our home. He had already had passed away. I know he would have LOVED it and LOVED meeting everyone. I will always miss him.

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   • Karl

     March 7, 2017 at 1:16 pm

     Jack-

     You’ve provided us all with a wonderfully informed history of one of the GREAT contributors (along with yourself) to the ever growing RE-DISCOVER of the man beyond the myth and misinformation. Thank you.

     Another who has just recently passed also had a hand in this. Robert Osbourne was reportedly responsible for the inclusion of Flynn’s name in the list of actors named in one of their now standard promos spoken throughout the day over at TCM (Turner Classic Movies)!

     Attached, is a photo of the two Flynnians, NOW together again!

     [img]http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LincOsbourne.jpeg[/img]

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     • Karl

       March 14, 2017 at 3:03 pm

       And… adding a bit more to the late Robert Osborn’s contribution to Flynn’s “revival” over at TCM is his series of interviews (previously noted here?) with Rory Flynn in 2014.

       On YoutTube there are 8 excerpts in total where, together, they provided “intros” & “outros” to 4 films: Objective Burma, AORH, GJ, & Rocky Mountain… here being a link if so inclined to either re-visit or visit for the first tome:

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