The Errol Flynn Blog

Our chum and fellow Flynn 100th birthday celebrant at Jack and Louise Marino's party for Errol in Hollywood, Dick Wieand (actor and photographer), is on the airwaves in a 2009 TV Commercial for Advair that is now on uTube, as well… 

Go check it out!

— David DeWitt

…is IN Again! Story in the Sunday June 21, 2009 editon of The Washington Post, featuring Tom McNulty (author of Errol Flynn: The Life and Career)…

Read the entire article by Nick Thomas:

A Century After His Birth Errol Flynn is In Again

— David DeWitt

We have had bandwidth problems several times recently due to image sizes being huge. Our digital cameras can create very large pictures with a great deal of detail but when these are opened or uploaded to our computers – we get into storage problems and run out of bandwidth before the end of the month, so to avoid this our new Author Graham Howe suggested to me some ideas in a recent personal email. I don't think he will mind if I record here just of bit our conversation:

It is too easy with broadband to send a full size digital camera image, 4 or 5 at full size will soon start eating up storage. For display on the page it really isn’t necessary to be more than 750 kilobytes per picture I MB absolute maximum. Maybe you could give away some piece of freeware to compress image size?

Maybe like this: www.mihov.com… or www.faststone.org…

– there are a bunch of them here including for mac users

 www.freebyte.com…

– just a thought but good to encourage people to think before uploading about size of picture.

I just thought offering it may make people think to reduce it before uploading. It also saves you the headache of having to archive or remove older posts which are nice to see for newbies.

We will obviously restrict size if we upload.

Best Graham

I appreciate the links, Graham! Image Resizer is a freeware I am using quite successfully myself on Windows XP.

— David DeWitt

Rory Flynn and Steve Hayes shared the airwaves this week on an exclusive BBC 4 radio interview and the two shared studio space listening to each other's interviews with the interviewer in London… it was great fun, said Steve, who also has a two page spread in the new book ERROL FLYNN SLEPT HERE (look for our blog Authors Jack Marino and Robert Florczak in this book, too!) from authors Robert Matzen and Mike Mazzone… this is now one of my most favorite Flynn books, ever… aside from Steve Hayes own double volume of memoirs Googies – Coffee Shop to the Stars…

Rory Flynn (The Baron of Mulholland, another fave!) will be sending us some pictures and a story about her exciting visit (with her son Sean Flynn) to Hobart for the recent Centenary Celebrations for her father's 100th birthday in Tasmania…

Steve and Genene Randall of Hobart kindly sent me a poster from the events in Tas, and some wonderful looking brochures from those celebrations… will share with you, soon…

— David DeWitt

Our Errol Flynn blog Author and professional writer Steve Hayes has a new book coming out in the Robert Hale publisher's western series A Black Horse Western, called Packing Iron… this is the second in a trilogy Steve has forthcoming from this publisher. Due out August 31, 2009 – you can purchase it (hardback, 160 pages) from the Robert Hale website…

— David DeWitt

Life and Times has a bit of audio that Chris Driscoll found for us concerning Flynn's 100th Anniversary… check it out. It is an hour long and ends with one of Errol's radio shows, Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Lana Turner…

Chris says:  “…with [Errol] being interviewed and Norah as well, she sounds a lot like Rory…one account of Errol riding off on horseback with a bow and arrow to hunt boar! [When you get to the page] Just click to listen…”

Errol Flynn – the 100th Anniversary

— David DeWitt

Since a few of us have been scouting the property up at Mulholland where Errol had a hilltop home – it seems a good idea to mention the article in the June 2, 1939 LA Mirror that Rick Stinehour found on their history blog…

Rick says,

It is a piece from a column — “Nuestro Pueblo” — that the paper ran on a regular basis. This particular article deals with the monument devoted to Colonel Lankershim, which abutted the Mulholland Farm property. Quite an interesting account of the Boy Scouts annoying EF's pets!

Also, deserving mention, if you go to the LA Time's website and access this article directly, some kind soul has taken photos of the contemporary sight and provided information as to how visitors may take a hike into see the monument in person. What a trip that would be! -RS

I was unable to find the link to the photos for us – but one of you computer whiz types out there might have better luck! Meantime Rick provides a photo of the article for us and I have made it into a pdf… Enjoy!

— David DeWitt

This is what you received IF you were lucky enough…

More to come including tales about the Centenial Celebrations in Hobart…

— David DeWitt

Three days before Errol Flynn's 100th Birthday a ray of light shines brightly on his star in Hollywood… today, his star sits just a few feet from a popular eatery on Hollywood Blvd – and not too far from Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

The first star in the Hollywood Walk of fame was placed for Joanne Woodward on February 9, 1960 and to date there are over 2,000 stars representing stars who have made significant contributions to film, radio, television and the recording industry. Stars near Flynn's include Robert Vaughn and Leonard Nimoy just across the street…

While Steve and Genene Randall kicked off Errol's Centenary Celebrations with guests Rory Flynn and her son Sean in Hobart, Tasmania – Jack & Louise Marino's 100th Birthday Bash for Errol Flynn at a gathering of The Mulholland Drive Boys, with guests Ron Fisher (husband of Beverly Aadland), and his daughter, Aadlanda, actor William Smith (Forgotten Heroes, directed by Jack), and his wife Joanne and Paul Picerni (who played Detective Steven Ranier in Mara Maru with Flynn), was held in Burbank, California.

Jack says he owes his lovely wife Louise all the credit for opening her home to so many people and working so hard to make the evening a huge success. She was the perfect hostess… and everyone enjoyed her warm smile and many thoughtful kindnesses during the event…

Special Guest was Trudy McVicker who knew Earl Conrad and Tony Thomas well, among other Flynn writers and is a true “Keeper of the Flame”.

On hand was Flynn biographer Tom McNulty (Errol Flynn, The Life & Career), and his wife Jan, Musician and Artist Robert Florczak and his wife, Annette, Actor and Photographer Dick Wieand, Actor, Playwright and Author Louis Kraft, Karl Holmberg of the Yahoo chat group The Zaca, Steve Latshaw, Polly Kranjcich, Kent Hagen, Donny Sarian, Greg Maradei, Karen Figilis owner of Flynn's Appian Way home and many others… including one very lucky fellow named Carl Zetterstrom who journeyed all the way from Sweden  to be at Errol's gravesite on June 20, and ended up being invited to a very special party!

Details of the party in Burbank and Special Events in Hobart will be forthcoming along with a gallery of photos! Stay tuned…

— David DeWitt