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Sean on the Island of the Coconut Monk
10
Sep
Per’The World According to Roger Steffens’:
Where is the most interesting place you’ve visited?
“The Island of the Coconut Monk. I went there for the first time in January of 1969 with John Steinbeck IV and Sean Flynn, Errol Flynn’s son. It was basically a mile-long sand bar in the middle of the Mekong River inhabited by thousands of drop outs from the war, led by a 4 and a half-foot hunchback monk who hadn’t lain down in the previous 20 years. Anyone who came to his island without a weapon was welcomed, no questions asked. They had deserters from the North Vietnamese communist forces, the South Vietnamese army, and daoists. They prayed to Christ, Buddha, Mohammad, Lao Tze, Confucius, Sun Yat-sen, Victor Hugo and Winston Churchill. The North bank of the river was controlled by the Americans and the South bank by the communists, and they’d fire rockets and mortars over the island, but never touch the island. It’s the only place in Vietnam that I saw happy people. It was there that I met my first wife.”
Per “The Coconut Monk” by John Steinbeck IV:
“I was happy here. Perhaps happier than I had ever been in my life. The island became my refuge for the next five years.”
——————– Roger Steffens, John Steinbeck IV, Crystal Eastin and Sean Flynn
— Tim
Errol Flynn’s Ghost Returns
09
Sep
An Immersive Glimpse at Old Havana
El documental ‘Errol Flynn’s Ghost: Hollywood in Havana’
Los cubanos siempre estuvieron enamorados de Hollywood. ¿Fueron correspondidos?
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The Adventures of Star Wars
05
Sep
‘What George Lucas Borrowed from The Adventures of Robin Hood to Make Star Wars’
Errol Flynn exudes exuberance that can’t be understated as the beating heart of the film.
Flynn makes The Adventures of Robin Hood a joy to watch.
Not only did the film get the legend of Robin Hood, of medieval heroes and villains, right, it got them so right that its distillation of the myth is still the gold standard almost a century later.
In 2003, Roger Ebert wrote:
The ideal hero must do good, defeat evil, have a good time, and win the girl. The Adventures of Robin Hood is like a textbook on how to get that right.
— Tim
Houston, You Had a Party
29
Aug
“Bedlam in Diamonds – Seventy Years Ago'””
The Shamrock Hotel Grand Opening
Starring Errol Flynn, Ginger Rogers, Dorothy Lamour, Lana Turner, ~ a cast of approximately 170 more celebrities, and Fifty Thousand extras
On March 17, 1949, the iconic Shamrock Hotel opened with a huge shindig. Hollywood celebrities including Ginger Rogers and Errol Flynn came to town for the grand opening, and Houstonians paid $42 a head to go to the dinner. About 3,000 people showed up in total, a thousand more than organizers had expected. Rich and famous attendees, even Houston’s mayor, ended up dining on hallway floors. Although the Houston Chronicle described the night as “bedlam in diamonds,” it is still remembered as one of the biggest social events in Houston history.
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The Maestro at The Bard
13
Aug
Robin Hood and Beyond at the Bard Music Festival
This Friday: August 16, 2019
It was through Max Reinhardt that Korngold first started writing for Hollywood, where he and his family joined the growing exodus of émigrés from Europe. Korngold believed that “music is music, whether it is for the stage, rostrum, or cinema,” and his background in concert music, opera, operetta, and musical comedy proved invaluable in writing for film. His Academy Award-winning score for The Adventures of Robin Hood – an epic Technicolor swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland – integrated music from both his Sursum Corda and his original material for Rosen aus Florida into a taut, genre-defining masterpiece.
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Errol Under the Stars 2019
04
Aug
TCM, August 17, 2019
Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
Northern Pursuit (1943)
The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Captain Blood (1935)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Dodge City (1939)
Cry Wolf (1947)
— Tim
