![]() ![]() “I have been in rebellion against God and government ever since I can remember,” Flynn writes. Growing up in Tasmania, mainland Australia, and England, Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn decided quickly that the normal rules of human behavior did not apply to him. ![]() “They, more likely than I, will get hurt.” The Real Tasmanian Devil “I am dangerous to be with because, since I live dangerously, others are subject to the danger that I expose myself to,” he writes. Whether he was learning to drink odorless vodka on set from Ann Sheridan, smoking weed with Diego Rivera, wooing Princess Irene of Romania, or using cocaine on the tip of his penis as an aphrodisiac, Flynn was out for himself, with little care for the wreckage he left along the way. ![]() Such a wealth of unnecessary vulgarity.”įrom his early days biting off sheep testicles on an Australian farm to his reign as an international superstar, Flynn recounts his amoral adventures in deceptively eloquent prose that blunts his often sordid stories. “It is indeed as outspoken as it is reputed to be,” his friend Noël Coward sniped, “but with a sort of outspokenness which curdles the blood. When his autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, was released posthumously in 1959, he again shocked the public-and even his famous friends. Born in 1909 in Tasmania, Errol Flynn captivated the world, careening through life like a Hemingway antihero brimming with toxic masculinity. ![]()
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