Was Roma Newport the Magnetic [Island] personality behind the character of Isabel Lucas in In Like Flynn? [What a Flynntastic name for one of Errol Flynn’s flings!]
— Tim
Archive for the ‘Author Errol Flynn’ Category
Un Quiz
15
Aug
What famous funeral event did Errol & Lili attend together in France?
It was in a Suburb of Paris, on the First Day of Spring.
This Actor Starred in a Film Very Closely Connected to the Event:
Here’s a Photo of the Event:
— Tim
REFUSE TO BE AFRAID
23
Jul
By Errol Flynn
Woman’s World – March 1939
“All my life I’ve fought fear, because I believe it is the only real menace to a man’s hopes and peace of mind.”
— Tim
In Like Flynn Will Soon Be Out
08
Jul
“In Like Flynn will be released later this year through Umbrella (Films)”
“[It] will be in cinemas by October 2018 in Australia.”
“It’s a different film and kinda unlike anything that’s come out of Australia.”
— Tim
Mail Bag! Dead Ringer for Flynn, The Sons of Flynn!
03
Jul
The mailbag brings us a wonderful email from William Russo:
I’ve been reading your stuff I guess for a couple years now. Truly enjoy it. Takes me into a world I truly love. Though it was the world of my parent’s generation, I feel a nostalgia for it I cannot explain. Though I grew up on Flynn’s movies, I did not come to become immersed into his life and personality until late hippie years. One of my best friends then was a guy named Steve Gilbert. He was a dead ringer for Flynn. Amazingly he had gone to Hollywood High, knew and even dated, I think, Rory! I introduced him to “My Wicked, Wicked Ways”. We each had a copy and would quote from it regularly. We both thought of it as kind of a Bible. I started a club; called it “The Sons of Flynn”. I always kept a couple copies of the book and whenever I met someone who reminded me of Flynn in some significant way, I’d give them a copy. There were only about four additional that I deemed worthy. Most recently, a couple years ago, I met a twenty something attractive blonde from South Africa by way of Canada, at a Cannabis farm in Humboldt county. Not only was she into Flynn, but astonishingly, knew that Vivica Linford played the Queen of Spain, in Don Juan ! She wanted a copy of the book (I didn’t have one at the time), and demanded to become a member of the club! Unfortunately, we lost touch before she could be initiated. This was never a club in anything more than a name, and in my own imagination. One “member” lives in Honolulu, a good look-a- like, the most like Flynn athletically, an ex Army Ranger. Another lives in western Massachusetts. The other is the guy who owned the cannabis farm; eerily reminiscent of the Robin Hood persona. As for Steve, sadly he died about the same age as Erroll, from drug and alcohol abuse. I think Rory’s book, the Baron of Mulhollandis a treasure. It’s like being there, feeling it all. I am going to be traveling in Europe soon (doing some sword fighting!) and living my own version of The Sun Also Rises. Though most of my reading material will on kindle on my tablet, I will be taking only one book, my original paperback copy of My Wicked, Wicked Ways.
Cisco Bill
Thanks so much for the note! and what a read MWWW’s is … I envy anybody who is reading it for the first time, and understand why we keep going back it! Here is the first paperback I read of it:
And two others I read later on:
— David DeWitt
Any Port in a Story?
13
Feb
Great story, but did Errol ever really visit Port Adelaide, as he says he did in Beams End?
Or was he Fibbin’ Like Flynn?
How it looked in the Twenties:
— Tim
A Day in the Life of Flynn – January 4, 1940
04
Jan
“ILLEGAL PASSAGE”
“ERROL FLYNN NAMES PALS IN HIS ORIGINAL PLAY WRITTEN FOR FILM”
Errol Flynn has drawn from his own private circle of cronies for many of the characters of his new original screen play entitled Illegal Passage, intimates of the Warner star have disclosed.
One, for example, is named “Big” Thompson. He is a former Texas cowboy, rough and tough, but with a heart as big as his frame. He’s the principle character’s best friend. Another of Flynn’s closest friend’s is Guinn (Big Boy) Williams, former Texas cowhand turned motion picture actor. And the description fits like a glove.
Another character bears the name of Bud Ernest. Friends pointed out that Flynn’s flying companion and his close friend for many years is Bud Ernst, former stunt flyer and now a radio promotion executive.
Several other characters of the story – the nature of which is being kept a close secret – bear striking resemblance to other members of Flynn’s intimate circle. There is even a comic, friends say, by the name of John Byer, who might be John Meyer, Flynn’s demon promoter pal.
Flynn’s story is now being read by Warners.
— Tim
Senor Flynn in Comic Cuba
26
Oct
In Like Flynn Film
13
Oct
IMDB has this update so far. The only thing that bothers me is that they say the budget is only 10 Mil. Hope it turns out great.
— twinarchers
