Cuban Story

[Michael Perelman]

Of course, Robin Hood was made down the street from me in our local park.
Not much else happened in Chico in those days.

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 05:32:50AM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> 
> > I thought Flynn was a nazi symp in WWII.
> > ?
> 
> The Charles Higham biography (_Errol Flynn: The Untold Story_) that made
> this argument seems now to be universally denounced as a fraud.
> 
> Fwiw, the 1938 film "The Adventures of Robin Hood" that Flynn starred in
> is usually regarded as a transparent allegory of freedom fighters
> overthrowing totalitarianism.  Someone argued somewhere that every big
> Robin Hood movie transparently reflected its era.  The 70s got Sean
> Connery's revisionist anti-Vietnam one, and the 90s got Kevin Costner's
> multicultural celebrationist one.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu