![]() Watching some of his movies again, I've changed my mind about him as an actor. The day before yesterday TCM showed Errol Flynn movies all day long, as well as a documentary about him. ![]() In the end, what more can you say about a man who met his second wife at his first rape trial? As if no one that witty and sophisticated and self-pitying could possibly be a child molester. He is describing his own evil acts, but doing it in such a way that you begin to feel sympathy for him. ![]() It reminded me of Humbert Humbert, the unctuous, self-justifying narrator of Lolita. But as a writer he was remarkably good, in a glib, raconteurish type of way. So, I obviously didn't come away liking him as a person. He was a slave trader in New Guinea, for God sakes! The womanizing was apparently the least wicked thing he did. I've never read anyone wallow so gloriously in their own evil-and evil is the only word for it. ![]()
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