Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude
Lessons in Morality From Peter Blood, the Pirate
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— Tim
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
September 7, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Understand Errol Flynn’s new contract is an actor’s dream come true. Forty-five hundred dollars a week for 52 weeks a year. An then three months a year vacation out of every 12. All at one time.
The Irish star is red hot at the box office these days and everybody on the lot says that Dawn Patrol will be his best picture.
— Tim
September 7, 1938
Louelle O. Parsons
Los Angeles Times
Errol Flynn and Lili Damita, a couple of love birds all alone on their yacht at Catalina over the holiday, stopped a lot of “talk” by their devotion.
Their boat was a beautiful sight racing another yacht under full sail.
— Tim
‘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
September 3, 1943
Los Angeles Times
Errol Flynn Asked to Vacate Apartment
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That’s all I have! Only the who, some of the what, an approximation of when, but not any of the where, why, or how!
Could this be a Garden of Allah story?
I don’t have access at this location to LA Times archives. Anyone out there in Flynnland know?
— Tim