Here is another one of Errol’s “Mon Film” Mag Covers but, unfortunately I can’t find the date of when this issue of this magazine came out. Could someone help me with this.
— Mary Ann
EFB Mailbag: from Kyra Pahlen!
07
Jul
Kyra Pahlen writes:
My father, Victor Pahlen, making Cuban Story with Errol Flynn, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara – etc. Read the article!PS: this film needs further restoring – just in case any of you have a thought!
FILM STAR WITH A CAUSE
by John Paul Rathbone
A brief quote from the article:
“I am resigned to the fact that the primitive life of the simple South Sea islanders is the best,” Flynn wrote towards the end of his autobiography, although, as he added, “it is not for me. I have become too much a cosmopolitan.” Nonetheless, he seems to have found something of this island idyll in Cuba, which was the subject of his last two films. As well as Cuban Story, Flynn also made Cuban Rebel Girls, a pitiful movie starring his 17-year old girlfriend, Beverly Aadland, whom he called his “wood nymph”.
Flynn suffered a fatal heart attack on October 14 1959, on a trip to Vancouver, Canada, two and a half months before the dreadful Cuban Rebel Girls had its New York premiere. By the time of his death, though, Flynn had changed his mind about the revolution: “It is one thing to start a revolution, another to win it, and still another to make it stick, and as far as this writer is concerned it ain’t sticking … the police state in Cuba is not very different from that of its predecessors.”
– Errol Flynn
Thanks for letting us know about this interesting article, Kyra!
You can download the movie !
— David DeWitt
Recent broadcasts of the Jack Marino Radio Show!
06
Jul
Show #72 Jim Turiello, up in Washington Heights, New York, where his favorite pastimes were playing football, baseball, basketball and bowling. In his spare time he went to the many movie palaces in his neighborhood. Jim writes a weekly sports column for BrianSmithRadio.com…. Since the 80’s he has been a regular on numerous sports radio shows in the tri-state area. As a prolific writer his contributions to music, movie and collectable magazines are too numerous to mention. Jim has authored a book Errol Flynn: The Quest for an Oscar is not a biography but a review and analysis of Errol Flynn’s ability to adapt to any role and the fact that he never duplicated the characters he portrayed. Errol was unique and contemporary, he lives on today. The book has his complete filmography as well as over 200 photographs.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Show #71 Cass Warner of the Warner Sisters, filmmaker and producer of the film THE BROTHERS WARNER. Cass Warner, the grand-daughter of Harry M. Warner the President of Warner Bros, knows all the family stories, that were going on behind the studio walls, while we were all watching these great films. This story is about an incredible factory run by four brothers, who never knew the meaning of quitting. Their story is so informative what this family run business was like and you can now see it in the film THE BROTHERS WARNER Cass Warner shares her remarkable life story of what it was like growing up in this incredible family who came to America with nothing but the will to succeed here in America.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Show #70 Steven C Barber, an independent documentary filmmaker comes on the show to tell us of his latest film UNTIL THEY ARE HOME Steve’s company VANILLA FIREis a marketing and production company that produces important films about out Veterans. Award Winning Filmmaker Steven C. Barber has been on CNN three times and The Tonight Show three times and shot his 3rd movie this summer. Steve’s passion for films and the stories he tells comes though in his interview on the show.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Show #69 Charles Heard and Leslee Mayo join me in discussing their experience and their research of their books about the artist John Decker and BUNDY DRIVE BOYS. It was well known that the Bundy Drive Boys made the Rat Pack look like Cub Scouts. They made fans go crazy, spent fortunes faster then they could make them. Their self-destructiveness was spectacular, the misanthropy profound but behind the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. The BUNDY DRIVE BOYS comes to life again with co-author Charles heard in HOLLYWOOD’S HELLFIRE CLUB and along with Leslee Mayo’s devotion in finding out the truth of who these “Boys” really were and about John Decker an incredible painter and who forged many masterpieces that are hanging in major museums.
— David DeWitt
Errol Flynn as James Bond?
05
Jul
Jim Turiello send me this photo, too! Imagine… Errol Flynn as James Bond!
— David DeWitt
Robin Hood to be screened in Bryant Park!
05
Jul
As reported before The Adventure of Robin Hood will be screened in New York August 6, 2012 – and Jim Turiello author of ERROL FLYNN: THE QUEST FOR AN OSCAR has supplied a photo of what this might look like!
— David DeWitt
July 2012 Rock-itt Magazine is launched!
01
Jul
Hi everyone
The July Rock-itt www.therockittmagazine.com… has been launched into the heavens. Thanks to our great online publisher “Realview”, we are able to visit every country on the planet. Can you send the link to your contacts so as they can see what we have in our payload. Hardcopies have been printed and are being delivered. Thanks to our feature writers and advertisers for being so efficient and sending their material in swiftly which allowed us to get The Rock-itt out right on time.
Cheers
Pete.
UPDATE!
Dear Rock-itt readers
I apologise for the previous link sent for the July issue. We have a problem with our website. Thank you to those who sent emails to alert me of the situation. The following link should take you straight to the July issue.
Happy reading!
Cheers
Pete
— David DeWitt
Adventures of Robin Hood to screen outdoors in NYC!
29
Jun
Jim Turiello (author of Errol Flynn: The Quest for an Oscar) write to me with the news that The Adventures of Robin Hood will be shown in public on the “big outdoor screen at Bryant Park in New York City, August 6, 2012…”
Also Jim was in Puerto Rico recently and visited the main plant of Bacardi Rum and spoke about Errol Flynn to the plant manager a big Errol Flynn fan who was unaware that Flynn had any connection to the Bacardi family. Jim Turiello is appearing on Jack Marino’s radio show tonight at 8pm Pacific Standard Time (PST) to discuss his book – and offers this photo taken in Cuba:
Flynn is holding a small chick in his hand!
— David DeWitt
July 2012 Docklines Available! Newsletter of the The Errol Flynn Marina!
25
Jun
Attached please find your July 2012 copy of the Errol Flynn Marina newsletter, “Docklines”
Dale B. Westin
General Manager
Errol Flynn Marina
Box 188 Ken Wright Drive
Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica
PLEASE NOTE NEW CELLULAR NUMBER BELOW:
Phones: 876- 993-3209; 876-715-6044
Fax: 876-715-6033 SKYPE: Westin8
Cellular: 876-832-4765
— David DeWitt
We Welcome New Author Gabrielle Sampietro to The Errol Flynn Blog!
21
Jun
We are pleased to announce New Author Gabrielle Sampietro to the Errol Flynn Blog! We look forward to your comments and posts and welcome you aboard!
— David DeWitt
