Word: errol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane. Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons buried one of their perfumed hatchets under a Romanoff's table. Admiral Bull Halsey. as best man, emceed the wedding breakfast celebrating Myrna Loy's marriage to Gene Markey. Gable guzzled champagne at Romanoff's with an indiscriminate palate. Errol Flynn naturally threw his suckling-pig parties at home, but Romanoff's catered them...
...already etched a redoubtable academic reputation for his monographs on marsupial embryology and anatomy, Australian-born Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, 76, closeted himself at the English Channel resort of Hove to finish off a book designed to "set the record straight" on a more complex mammal: his late son Errol. While insisting that "the Errol the public knew-the hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer-was a legend created by himself for publicity," the retired Belfast University professor (who recently celebrated his 54th wedding anniversary) conceded that his boy was not "perfect by any means. But neither was he wicked...
...clients ranged from Errol Flynn to Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin to Smoky Bob Mitchum. He was attacked as a publicity hound and had a reputation as a fast man at taking on sensational cases: when the Beverly Hills cops first arrived at the home of Lana Turner after her daughter had stabbed Johnny Stompanato, Giesler opened the door. But underneath all the star-spangled headlines was a quiet, brilliant lawyer, an ambivalence chaser and not an ambulance chaser, who third-guessed his opposition and won his cases less by theatrics than by thorough and meticulous preparation...
Giesler never talked about the fees he charged, but Chaplin reportedly paid him $100,000, Errol Flynn $75,000. He averaged about $150,000 a year-not much for a star whose performance in some of the greatest of Hollywood scenes should have earned him half a dozen Oscars...
Despite his father's hard-earned advice-"Be a scientist or a professor like your grandfather but never an actor"-handsome, crooked-smiling Sean Flynn, 19, a chip off swashbuckling Errol Flynn by his first wife Lily Damita, is ready to go down to the sea in sets as the Son of Captain Blood. The film, now being hastily scenarioed, is the sequel-hopefully at the box office above all-of Errol Flynn's pirate classic, Captain Blood. Untried on screen save for a bit part in Where the Boys Are, Sean charmed his way to the presidency...