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From the Errol Flynn Mailbag! Robert Florczak Interview!

11 Dec


Hello everyone,

On My radio show I am having ROBERT FLORCZAK  one of the Mulholland Drive Boys.  The show is on LA TALK RADIO at 8PM PST & 11PM EST  www.latalkradio.com…; click on channel 2

at 8PM and the show will begin LIVE

Thanks, Jack
Jack Marino


Artist-Illustrator–Author–Recording Artist–College/University Instructor–World Traveler

Born in Washington, D.C. but raised in New Jersey; recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by his hometown and inducted into its Hall Of Fame An art graduate of the renowned The Cooper Union in New York City Performed music in nightclubs and concert halls around the U.S.
Recorded and released original music internationally, including with The National Philharmonic in London (the orchestra responsible for the wonderful RCA classic film score recordings conducted by Charles Gerhardt) Came to Hollywood in 1981 to score music for the motion picture “Roar”, starring Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith; while working on the film, lived on Hedren's game preserve amongst scores of wild lions and tigers Lived on John Barrymore's Bella Vista estate in Beverly Hills Personally toured Errol Flynn's Mulholland Farm when Rick Nelson lived thereMet and dialogued with Charlie Burt, one of Flynn's three yacht mates on his Sirocco adventures in New Guinea in the early '30s Friend and/or acquaintance of Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire, Jim Croce, Harry Nilsson, Nino Tempo, Dennis Prager, etc. Original art in the collections of Mel Gibson, Jimmy Stewart (now in the James Stewart Theater in Princeton), Michael Jackson (including the design for the logo of his Neverland estate), Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Allen, etc. Illustrator of eight noted picture booksContinues to tour the world, and is in the process of completing a photo essay book from his travels called “Movie Locations-Then & Now”, and preparing a book on the making of “The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Married and the father of two young children.

Warmest regards,

Jack Marino
Filmmaker/Radio Talk Show Host

LIVE ON LA TALK RADIO

Call in Number 1-818-602-4929

— David DeWitt

 
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Flynn's Room on the Queen Mary…

09 Dec

Hallo, Chums! We have some differing information about where Flynn's room on the Queen Mary is located today. Robert's adviser on the matter is a historian of the Queen's history and should know his stuff, yet it differs from what I discovered from the reservations department a few years ago who told me the room was refurbished, was renumbered M012 and was located on the port side of the ship on M Deck. This would make it on the dockside of the vessel, and it was easy to locate. Below are some pics of the tiny hallway leading to the doorway of M012 and some shots of the surrounding area. I noticed a bar was located adjacent to a sitting area outside of Flynn's hallway. I figured I was in the right place. It is my fervent hope that M012 is the actual location of Flynn's room so that fortunate visitors to the ship can stay in the room! I am trying to find the email I received (I printed it out and kept it on my bookshelf) but cannot find it now, naturally! It is around somewhere and I hope that perhaps the email address and name of the person who responded to me might shed some light on the two divergent bits of information we have… as with nearly anything Flynn-ish, tis a mystery….

                                 
                                  Note: the door is to the left of the M012 placard. The device above the number is perhap a doorbell of some sort?

UPDATE 7/03/2011
I have found a nice gentleman who has a Queen Mary website (his old site Julian tells me) that features maps of the Queen Mary at the time Errol sailed aboard the great ship. I now attach the map showing Errol's room number M38 on the port side, featuring a port hole, and the part of the renumbering list showing M38 became M012. The map shows the configuration of the hallway picture also attached previously which matches the number of doors and their locations in this hallway going to M012 on the Main Deck. Thank you, Juilan!

Julian's website

— David DeWitt

 
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Sirocco Club

08 Dec

Hi all members,

 

I have a close contact and ardent Flynn fan and collector in Finland, who apparently has a “Sirocco Club” member card with member name mentioned on it dated to the '30s and we both would like to know more about it. Any information regarding this would be welcome to help him out. It has never been mentioned in the many biographies etc, I have read.

Personally, having read almost everything about Flynn that is available, I don't know anything about this particular subject apart from Errol having a yacht named “Sirocco” for the second time which is fatal in naval terms, but nevertheless knowing our hero he did anyway and bless him for this, as we all know that he defied the normal etc. and that is at least one of the reasons why we respect him so much.

Kind regards,

Jan

Spain

— Don Jan

 
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Jack Marino' Radio Show features William Donati!

03 Dec

To all members of my radio show.

Tonight's guest is William
Donati who is an author who wrote the book, “MY DAYS WITH ERROL FLYNN”
with Buster Wiles and a BIO on Ida Lupino.

Bill has recently finished his book” Lucky Luciano: The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss”

So join us on LA TALK RADIO at 8PM PST and 11PM EST
www.latalkradio.com…

Please forward to all your friends who like to hear about the mob and how these people really were in real life.

Thank you all for your continued support with the downloads.
I
am doing around 3200 downloads total per month directly from the Radio
station. On itunes I did over 8,000 downloads last month. I couldn't
be doing these kinds of numbers without your continued support and
following.

itunes.apple.com…

Here is the link to itunes that has all of my shows uploaded.

Thanks,

Jack

— David DeWitt

 
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December 2010 Docklines now available!

03 Dec


Word:
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— David DeWitt

 
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Errol Flynn-inspired cartoon characters

29 Nov

Hi fellow Flynnians!

Aside from being a Flynn fan, I'm also a big Disney fan (and a fan of animation in general). Yesterday I saw Disney's new (50th) animated film “Tangled”. It's a really great retelling/re-imagining of the fairytale of Rapunzel. Anyway, so what does this have to do with Errol Flynn?

Well…the main hero in the film is a guy named Flynn Rider (actual first name Eugene — note the first initial “E”). The Disney filmmakers named him after Errol, and partially modeled his character on Errol and his swashbuckling hero persona. Here's a brief description of Flynn Rider, taken from a promotional magazine for “Tangled”: “The rogue bandit Flynn Rider is daring, and has always relied on his wit, charm and good looks to get out of even the stickiest of situations.”

Also, here's a quote about the character from one reviewer of the movie: “He's named Flynn by the way, and may remind parents, or grandparents, of a similar hero, circa 1937's 'The Prince and the Pauper'.”

And, to top it off, in the film Flynn Rider tells Rapunzel that he took his name from a legendary swashbuckler by the name of Flynnigan Rider — a man who was daring, heroic, good with the ladies, rich, and could do anything and go anywhere in the world. Sound familiar? :-)

So, this is the 2nd time (if you count their animated version of Robin Hood) that Disney has created an Errol Flynn-inspired animated character. I also know of 3 other Errol-inspired animated characters: The heroic archer-poet called Bow and the hero pirate called Sea Hawk — both from the 1980's animated TV series “She-Ra: Princess of Power”, and the heroic swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep — a computer-animated character in the Disney live-action “Narnia” films.

Anyone else know of any others?

— Rachel

 
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“Charge Of The Light Brigade” Lake Sherwood #2

29 Nov

Another from the Lake Sherwood location. Unfortunately, a large portion of the basin has been filled in (see attached overhead photo), making a “Now” view far less appealing than it might have been had the lake remained as it was in 1936.

— Robert

 
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“Charge Of The Light Brigade” Lake Sherwood

29 Nov

From my recent entrée to a private area of Lake Sherwood–finally, after 25 years! As you can see, it's quite overgrown, preventing a clear view as in the film still. Still magical, though.

— Robert

 
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Download of Rare Films

26 Nov

I just discovered this site were you can download, among others, “The Strange Auction”, “In the Wake of the Bounty”, “Santa Fe Trail” and others things related to Errol:

www.archive.org…

 

— Inga

 
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Happy Thanksgiving Errol Flynn Fans!

25 Nov

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody!


Special thanks to SUZY for this gif!

— David DeWitt

 
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