— David DeWitt
Archive for the ‘Books about Flynn’ Category
Mail Bag! Kevin McAleer: Errol Flynn a Life in Verse!
03
May
Dear David,
It has been quite some time since we last had contact. You may remember me – the guy who was writing an epic poem on the life of Errol Flynn. Well, ten years in the making and I recently finished it. Now of course comes the real work, finding a publisher, but in the meantime I thought you might like to read the manuscript version. Book-length poems may not be your bag, but the Flynn aspect could still carry you through.
I see that the blog is flourishing. Back in 2009 you were kind enough to post some of my stanzas. So my impulse in contacting you now is not completely self-serving – I thought you might be curious to see how things turned out.
On 11 May I have a rearding from the poem at the renowned literary salon of Britta Gansebohm, with novelist/playwright Carey Harrison moderating:
Best Regards,
Kevin McAleer
Thanks, Kevin!
— David DeWitt
No. 9
01
Apr
Michael Herr’s “Dispatches” – featuring Sean in it’s “Colleagues” section – is ranked the 9th best Autobiographical/Memoir book of all time!
Sample passages referring to Sean:
Photos of Herr & Sean:
— Tim
Flynn in Cannes
23
Jan
Invention of the French Riviera:
www.francetoday.com…
Errol & Bridgett:
Errol & Tilda:
Errol & Clelle @ what appears to be Cannes:
03 Sep 1953, Venice, Italy — Original caption: Errol Flynn Suffers Back Injury. Venice, Italy: An old back injury, which sent him to bed in his hotel suite, is keeping film star Errol Flynn from enjoying many days such as the one he is shown sharing with Mrs. Barry Mahon under sunny Italian skies. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
A Glimpse of Flynn at the Festival:
— Tim
A Shore Thing
04
Jan
This month is the 90th Anniversary of Sydney Church of England Grammar School’s most famous student – Flynn, E.L.T. “Shore” was Errol’s last school.
Errol, ever near the water:
The notably high-achieving but “severe” headmaster who ejected Flynn – LC Robson. Robson deleted all evidence of Errol’s attendance at Shore (Student Entrance No. 3955) from school records, but Flynn, of course, prevailed – still regarded the school’s most renowned alumni (“Old Boy” in the school’s parlance.)
A sketch of Shore circa 1925, how young Master Flynn would have seen it:
Errol’s two dorms at Shore: Robson House and School House, the latter of which he only stayed a few hours.
One of Errol’s fellow boarders at Robson House, Prime Minister Gorton, at the White House with Tricky Dick Nixon. The PM remembered Errol as “a first class boxer”.
President Nixon and Prime Minister John Gorton during an official welcoming ceremony at the White House in May 1969.
— Tim
Flo Ro at the finish line?
29
Nov
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
the read realchristianmcqueen.com…
is interesting enough, but more intriguing is the comment at the bottom of the page.
It comes from former blog Flynnthusiast Robert Florczak stating he finally completed his latest he-art work on our Hollywood hero.
If so, we are in for a treat under the Christmas tree. 2000 pages on Flynn with more than 10.000 pictures- that took time, effort and money! One penny a pic would be a bargain, ten cents a page still a steal…the purchase price does not worry me as much as whether coffee tables worldwide will withstand the weight of the opus´ corpus.
Personally, I am very curious if Errol really ever visited that nail shop in Bali.
Robert, I implore you to rejoin the blog, be it under the name of Rogueczak or Anonymous, but please give us the rundown on the release of the Bible of Errol.
Halleluja,
— shangheinz
Lowdown on Showdown – Covers Through the Years
20
Nov
1946 Sheridan House, New York
1946
See this “Rarest Copy of Showdown” link!
1946 Invincible, Sydney
1946 “First Australian Edition”
1949 Dell Books
1952 W. Foulsham, London
1960 Cardinal, New York
1961 Consul Books
1976 Buccaneer Books
1986 Amereon Ltd
— Tim
The Errol Flynn Blog Mailbag! Lincoln Hurst’s book Reviewed?
23
Jul
Karl Holmberg, a greast friend of The Errol Flynn Blog sent me a review back in 2010 of our dear friend Prof. Lincoln D. Hurst’s forthcoming book ERROL FLYNN: The True Adventures of a Real Life Rogue. (Linc hated the Rogue part of the title but it was a compromise.) The book was never published becasuse our friend passed away while trying to reconstruct lost chapters in a computer crash and write the book so Karl bring’s up the question, How do you accurately review a book that never saw print, or even galleys?
— David DeWitt
