Dear Flynnstones,
Stanley Kubrick`s former Victorian estate Abbots Mead is on the market again. Inside Stanley Kubrick’s Former Estate: Abbots Mead | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008
This offer offers us a curious Flynn connection, other than the symbologistic (not to use the word visionary) director´s initial impuls to cast Errol as H.H. for his Lolita-adaptation: In should`ve been Flynn 13 « The Errol Flynn Blog
Do you see it?
Take a close look at the bathroom (photo courtesy of Savills), a place always prominently pictured in SK`s movies.
Yes, it shows the same female figurine, that watches Errol Flynn’s grave.
So, maybe, when Stanley lay in his bathtube for recreational and inspirational purposes under that black monolithic madonna, he saved a thought or two about our man Flynn. The one that got away, declining a career opportunity in dire times by cooly declaring: “You see, Old Sport, me and Bev come as a sort of a package deal.”
When Errol`s one time business manager Lew Wasserman, the later boss of Universal Studios, was asked as who he`d like to reincarnate, he replied instantly: “Clark Gable.”
I wonder who Kubrick`s favourite starchild was.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
