Category Archives: Errol Flynn

Fallen Star

December 14, 2011

Producers and directors often exhorted Martin Steven to beat or at least be like Errol Flynn, and that seemed attainable. In terms of facial structure, Martin looked as if Flynn had fathered him. Hell, maybe he did. So the sequence was logical enough. Martin was outfitted in tights in his first starring film role and [...]

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Flowers for Errol Flynn

December 2, 2011

on sunny
forest lawn
fresh
pink flowers
lie across
errol flynn
caressed by
lady lost
in distant
dreams
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Material Handler on the Road

January 29, 2011

I still wonder if my adult working career for many years progressed like a tortoise in sand because of apathy or a reflexive hatred of manual labor that began too soon, at age nine, when my mother remarried and her new husband, a drill sergeant masquerading as an electrical engineer and contractor, drafted my stepbrother [...]

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Arnella Flynn, Too Much Like Errol

November 15, 2004

For decades the inside cover of Parade magazine has been like it is today, a page glistening with faces of beautiful and famous people.  And as I write this, one of those pages stands out more than hundreds of others I’ve read.  It was from an early 1970’s issue and featured the delightful image of [...]

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