Dear Rock-itt readers.
The December issue of The Rock-itt magazine is now online.
Please enjoy
cheers
Pete
— David DeWitt
Author Archive
December 2014 The Rock-itt Magazine!
01
Dec
From the Errol Flynn Mailbag …
26
Nov
An interesting item from the EFB Mailbag: our writer says “I have not seen anything on your blog about this. Nikon Camera bought on eBay with Sean Flynn’s initials:
I also found this while looking at camera articles:
Kind regards, says our correspondent who wishes to withold his name … But we thank you, very much!
— David DeWitt
Shoreham Hotel, where Errol Flynn …
09
Nov
… met Earl Conrad to go over the galley’s of My Wicked, Wicked Ways, and played a trick on Conrad by having Woodsie and some teenage girls draped all over the rooms busily editing pages of the book with pencils! Conrad predictably blew his top while Errol innocently asked What’s wrong, old boy?
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— David DeWitt
November 2014 Rockitt Magazine!
05
Nov
We always let readers know about Peter Johnson’s Rockitt Magazine so they can enjoy his Errol Flynn feature On Errol: Hobart to Hollywood. Past issues feasture Robert Florzac’s excellent Then and Now series.
— David DeWitt
Alibris.com for Errol Flynn Movies!
05
Nov
If you are looking for copies of Errol Flynn’s movies, I noticed Alibris.com… has a selection at reasonable prices (look for the yellow See All from button) including Kim, Master of Ballantrae, The Big Boodle, Mara Maru, and Green Light, among others that are becoming harder to find. The classics are there, too!
A lot of great Flynn book choices are there, too, including From a Life of Adventure: the Writings of Errol Flynn.
Worth looking at …
— David DeWitt
The Legend of Robin Hood, by Tom McNulty!
04
Nov
Tom McNulty is known to all of you as the author of the best bio of Errol Flynn yet written, Errol Flynn: The Life and Career. On his blog he has written a great piece The Legend of Robin Hood! Goest thou and enjoy …
— David DeWitt
We Welcome New Author Delvan Irwin to The Errol Flynn Blog!
29
Oct
I’m happy to announce our newest Author Delvan Irwin to The Errol Flynn Blog. Delvan, we look forward to your Posts and comments! Welcome aboard …
— David DeWitt
Tim Reid, on Jack Marino’s Radio Show!
27
Oct
From the Errol Flynn Mailbag!
Dave can you post this or mention TIM REID will be on my show TONIGHT on the Errol Flynn Blog. Thank you old boy
SUNDAY, Oct 26, 2014 at 7PM PST & 10PM EST Jack Marino Warriorfilmmaker Show on www.latalkradio.com… on Channel 2
My Guest is Tim Reid, born & raised a Flynn Fan in an predominantly Irish seaside neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. (Only a very short distance from where Harry Eiler grew up, before he made it big and bought Flynn’s place on Navy Island!)
Flynn was King in our neighborhood, who all the girls swooned over, and all the boys wanted to be. Dad & Mom were huge Flynn fans, too, and much like our neighborhood’s Errol & Olivia – Dad being very highly intelligent and athletically gifted, Mom being extraordinarily gorgeous and fun.
Grew up watching Flynn on late night and weekend TV. Captain Blood, Charge of the Light Brigade, Robin Hood, Sea Hawk, Gentleman Jim, They Died With Their Boots On. What boy wouldn’t want to be Flynn?! Fighting the good fight so valiantly AND winning the hearts of all the best looking girls, too! What boy wouldn’t want to be anyone but Errol Flynn!?!
Years later, in the early Eighties, when I moved to San Diego, I became significantly reacquainted with Flynn. Heard stories from sailors & old timers who knew many of his incredible exploits and adventures in San Diego, Old Tijuana, Rosarito, and Ensenada. That led me to read the still astonishing Wicked, Wicked Ways – like nothing I’d ever read before. Truly Flynntastic.
Inspired by all of that, I wrote “In Like Flynn”, which I used last year as the musical track in a video tribute to the 75th Anniversary of Robin Hood.
“In Like Flynn” – 75th Anniversary of “The Advent…:youtu.be/dILYf6IOH5g…
Working on the In Like Flynn video, I had the tremendous pleasure and good fortune to meet the great David DeWitt, founder of the Errol Flynn Blog. That has opened up a who new world for me, allowing me to learn from and communicate with preminent Flynn fans around the globe.
Based on these wonderful opportunites, and drawing on my experience as a commemorative historian, I am helping to plan and celebrate year-long, around-the-world tributes to Errol’s two greatest pirate films – Captain Blood & The Sea Hawk, which, in 2015, will be in their 80th & 75th anniversary years.
Attached is a photo from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, during filming of “The First Boys of Spring”, a documentary being released in 2015.
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Show call in number: 1-818-602-4929
Jack Marino’s Warriorfilmmaker Show
if you missed the LIVE show you can always go back to the archive and hear it then
Visit the BLOG site for the Radio show on warriorfilmmakers.com…
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Thank you,
Jack Marino
Thanks, Jack!
— David DeWitt
New YouTube Pluggin added!
22
Oct
On your Author toolbar above the Posting window you’ll see a new link to brouse for and add relevant YouTube videos to your posts! Best used in the Visual tab, I think. Let me know if you have any problems with it in your browser?
— David DeWitt
