[b][u]JackFavell[/u][/b] wrote:...I wish the author had gone into Walsh's friendship with Flynn, but she stayed steadfastly and boringly with Walsh's film chronology, concentrating on memos from the studio in order to explain Walsh's and Flynn's behavior on set only. It seems to me that this misses the entire outside life of the men discussed, both of whom had enormously interesting lives outside the studio - if someone ever writes my bio, PLEASE, don't just talk about how I behaved at work!
"BIOGRAPHY OF A MOVIE BUFF"
by CineMaven
"It was somewhere on a dark and stormy Oklahoma night, when little Wendy, nee Wendy Favellspenskaya-Lynde was born, the second child of Jack & Maria. She was a teeny tiny little thing with fabulously curly red hair. She cried a lot, poor kid. (She wanted straight hair, but alas...heredity ruled). Her older sister was not sympathetic to her new baby sister.
"WHAT'S SHE DOIN' HERE?! I WANNA GO OUT AND ROLLER SKATE!!!" Her parents threw up their hands in despair over their new bawling baby.
"WHAT ARE WE TO DO. WHY CAN'T SHE BE LIKE HER SISTER. SHE NEVER CRIED." One day with little Wendy on her father's knee just crying like the little baby she was...her father changed the channel from a football game during a commercial break. Little Wendy's father turned the channel to Million Dollar Movie for a moment where a black & white movie was playing. It was not unusual to see black & white because the Favellspenskayas did not have a color tv.
"The Thin Man" was aired for the tenth time that week. The sweet dulcet sounds of William Powell wafted through the tiny Tulsa farm house and quieted little Wendy down. Why, the infant positively cooed. Her young parents almost missed it, ( dads are oblivious ), but Mom noticed baby Wendy stopped crying. When Dad thought sufficient time had passed, he turned the channel back to the Packers vs. the Giants game. Bart Starr was on a holy roll!!! Baby Wendy's face turned beet-red (almost matching her hair color) and her plaintive cries began again.
"CHANGE THE CHANNEL BACK!!!" yelled Mom from the kitchen. (She was making Wendy's favorite formula...Gerber's Baby Amaretto mixed with condensed Carnation Milk). Startled, Dad changed the channel back to "The Thin Man", and noticed his little daughter stopped crying.
"I WILL GIVE UP FOOTBALL FOREVER," yelled Mr. Favellspenskaya while tossing his brand new daughter on his knee. She spit up on his boots.
But a movie buff was born...and it was many years later before she went to work and tried her hand at banking, acting and writing about classic films."
Have you seen him in The Forsyte Woman? He's absolutely a revelation in it to me, I think he could have been a brilliant character actor, had there been some decent roles out there for him. Things he could sink his teeth into and get away from that image that stifled him so.
I wonder if fans would have really wanted to see Flynn any other way than dashing and swashbuckling.