Hollywood's Wicked, Wicked Ways

[the_gneech]

About half a foot of snow and still falling, so I'm home today. :) In the other room, Laurie's watching a really, really bad made-for-TV version of My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's autobiography.

Errol was many things, but a smarmy git was not one of them.

Actually, thinking about him, I suddenly made a connection...

• Handsome, charming man
  
  
• Raised by an evil mother who verbally abused and berated him
  
  
• Somewhat depressive
  
  
• Roaming from one broken relationship to the next because he couldn't properly relate to women
  
  
• Made bad decisions that got him into trouble, then beat himself with guilt about it for years
  
  
• Harder on himself than he actually deserved

Holy cow! It was Conrad in a former life!

-The Gneech

Comments

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

*grin* So, are you drawing a picture of Conrad the Swashbuckler?

Re:

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I already did! :) He was tied up by Pirate Queen Tiffany... -TG

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

So...

Are you now going to do a story where Conrad turns out
to be a Nazi spy and gets in a fight with a young heroic
buck with a rocket pack?

"The Rocketdeer!" ;)

Scott

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Um, no. ;P -TG

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Okay, it was a lousy movie anyway, but
the rocketpack was pretty cool. :D

Yours sillily,

Scott (what's the adverbial form of silly?) Kellogg

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Yeek! So who's going to sue who for copyright infringement? You could go get'em, and then never have to work again! ;)

[lowen-kind.livejournal.com]

Kind of hard to sue for "copyright" infringement when Erroll Flyn was an actual person. ;=3

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the fact that Errol Flynn predates Conrad by about half a century :)

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

In this sue crazy world? You'd be surprised. Does Flynn have any descendants?

[nekomimikun.livejournal.com]

What's an Errol Flynn?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

--!

-TG

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

You mean... Conrad came from Tasmania too? I knew he was a tiger, but... Jeez!

batty

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Actually, I really do like Errol Flynn.

Who can NOT like "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and
"The Sea Hawk"?

(And despite rocket packs, airplanes and Zepplins, I
didn't care for "The Rocketeer" because they made Flynn
out to be a Nazi spy. :-P )

But, I always did wonder what the heck happened to the
guy? He was a real star and then just disappeared!

So what happened? Why did he quit?

Scott