The Errol Flynn Blog

What is it?

A new toolbar you can download for free dedicated to the things you like most! Like the Internet and The Errol Flynn Blog!

What can you do with it?

You can search the Internet, or The Errol Flynn Blog from the new Errol Flynn Blog Toolbar (just select the down arrow beside the searchbar for this menu option), listen to music on the radio or the BBC World broadcast as I am doing now, check your email, watch movie trailers, TV channels from round the world, chat in our new Errol Flynn Blog Chatroom (available only from the toolbar), check your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, or Hi5 pages, customize its components to make opening your most frequently used programs just a click away from the toolbar, add your own specialized components or feeds – and receive an Alert from the Errol Flynn Blog right from the toolbar for news and information you don't want to miss!

All of Flynn's Fave websites have now been added to the toolbar, too!

The Errol Flynn Blog Toolbar

— David DeWitt

 

Errol Flynn Slept Here Book from Paladin Communications

 

Source: www.errolflynnslepthere.com…

Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Warner Brothers come to swashbuckling life in Paladin's Golden Age of Hollywood history books.

— David DeWitt

Please go visit the Rock-itt online magazine for a great spread about Bonny Cother's Master of Errol Flynn's Yacht Zaca book that is available from info here at the blog and as well as ordering information in the magazine. Bonny Cother has a page and our own Karl Holmberg reviews the book as well – great stuff, not to be missed!

For an article in the same magazine by Thomas McNulty about Jack & Louise's bash for Errol's 100th centenary, click the back button after reading about Bonny's book or go here…

— David DeWitt

Hallo, Chums! Andrea Kollo was kind enough to email me to let us know that her excellent Flynn site: Errol Flynn – Our Man About Town has been given special permission to showcase 34 rare candids from the behind-the-scenes workings of shooting Cuban Rebel Girls… extraordinary, to say the least! These rare photos may NOT be reproduced anywhere else in any media whatsoever… but she has been given exclusive permission to display them on her site! Go check it out…

The Cuban Rebel Girls Candids

Tip o the Hat to Andrea Kollo!

— David DeWitt

Hello All –

Just a brief note to say that Amazon has listed yet a new David Bret publication on EF due out in November 2009 entitled “Gentleman Hellraiser”. I did not bother reading his first attempt — by all accounts a massive work of fiction with little or no reliable sources. Apparently, Mr. Bret is taking a second run at the topic in order to expand upon “new material” that he did not include the first time around.

Rick

— Rick

 Read Tom McNulty's review of our Author Steve Hayes western novel “Packing Iron” online: Tom writes, in part:

“The Western is not dead. I say this with total assurance because I have just read a Western that has rekindled my faith in a genre the critics have attempted to flog to death with their incessant negativism. It’s true the Western has had its high and lows, but this is natural for a genre so fraught with the very essence of the American experience.

“The book I’m referring to is Packing Iron by Steve Hayes and it’s published by Robert Hale in London as part of their famed Black Horse Western series.”

Read the full reveiw… 

— David DeWitt

Our Author Louis Kraft has his third interview at Wild West Magazine concerning his career and Louis says, “Johnny Boggs & WILD WEST allowed me to talk about Custer, Wynkoop, Gatewood, Apaches, Cheyennes, Flynn, de Havilland, genocide, race, and humanity… “

It's a fascinating interview not to be missed in the October 2009 WILD WEST (on newsstands soon)! Louis adds, “Usually their interviews are about two pages. However, it is now online (and I think longer than the print version…)”.

Read the online version of the interview with Author-Playwright Louis Kraft

HistoryNet.com…

— David DeWitt

Karen and Graham are away at the Bregenz Opera Festival 10th – 17th August inclusive where Graham is a part of the Opera North contribution of OF THEE I SING. Karen Lynne and Graham Howes are recent New Authors on The Errol Flynn Blog and we like to keep readers updated about our Authors' doings… look for Graham as Senator Robert E Lyons!

Für dich Baby! – Of Thee I Sing 

Guest performance by Opera North, Leeds

Musical in two acts by George Gershwin
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin based on the book by
George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind

Sung in English with German

16 August 2009 – 11.00 a.m., Festival Theatre

— David DeWitt

From Scarecrow Press:

Errol Flynn: The True Adventures of a Real-Life Rogue

Lincoln Douglas Hurst

DESCRIPTION

The star of such classics as The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Sea Hawk, and The Adventures of Robin Hood, Errol Flynn garnered notoriety for wild and reckless behavior, a reputation that wasn't always warranted. In Errol Flynn: The True Adventures of a Real-Life Rogue, Lincoln Hurst masterfully sorts fact from fiction behind the famous name.

Relying upon never-before-published revelations by those closest to Flynn and by Flynn himself—including his explosive private diary during his visit to the Spanish Civil War in 1937—Hurst reveals a man and a story more extraordinary, complex, and fascinating than any role the actor ever portrayed on the silver screen. Hurst focuses on the least understood aspects of Flynn's life and exploits, such as the exact nature of his political beliefs and his largely-unknown private quest for life's meaning. The book concludes with a filmography, a collection of Flynn's unpublished letters, and personal testimony from those who knew him best.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The late Lincoln Douglas Hurst was professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis.

— David DeWitt