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San Francisco Herald street. He went home and when he something tells me that having him as a awoke he couldn’t move. He couldn’t father wasn’t a picnic either. August 2019 move for four days – just stuck there in bed. He’s had to use a wheelchair ever The actor who starred in swashbuckling SanFranciscoHerald.Net since. I told him that his bicycle’s rubber movies like “Captain Blood” and “Robin tires should have protected him from the Hood” was a hard drinking womanizer “Serving Nob Hill and Beyond” electricity. He said they would have if he who was often in the news due to various scandals. XXXXXXXXXX hadn’t gotten off the bicycle and taken photos of the lightning and electricity for One of Errol’s offspring was Sean Flynn, 20 minutes. The Society Page the only child he had with his first wife, But he seems to be making the best of it. French-American actress Lili Damita. By Gene Mahoney He’s kind of the unofficial mayor there – Lili raised Sean alone, as Errol and her separated when Sean was young. Russian Hill Upholstery & Décor is still he knows everyone, and his artwork is hanging up at some restaurants. located in Nob Hill, not Russian Hill. Sean studied at Duke University, tried his hand at singing, then starred in a few XXXXXXXXXX And he’s a lot happier there than he is in the Palo Alto of today. spaghetti westerns in Italy and Spain. Deep Purple at The Warfield, September Acting bored him, so he went to Africa 8. Like, wow, man. Heavy. Intense. XXXXXXXXXX and worked as a safari guide, a big game Crucial. Lemmy lives! Hot Fuckin’ hunter, and a game warden. In 1966 I recently read a book published in 1997 Tuna! Flynn went to South Vietnam to work as titled “The Life and Death of Peter a high risk photojournalist. He was XXXXXXXXXX Sellers” by Roger Lewis. And I wounded in the knee, made a parachute envisioned this issue’s column being a jump with the 101st Airborne Division, I spent some time on the San Mateo review of it, exploring his roles as the and once helped the Green Berets fight coast recently, and let me tell you, I was bumbling French detective Inspector when they were ambushed by the Viet impressed. It’s more like the California I Clouseau in “The Pink Panther” series to Cong. moved to in 1985 than where I live now the complete idiot turned powerful – in Silicon Valley. And it’s more like politician in “Being There.” But the man On April 6, 1970 – less than 2 months the old California that I loved than who brought so much joy to the people before his 29th birthday – Sean Flynn modern day San Francisco, too. (No tech who watched his movies brought so motorcycled to Saigon to attend a press nerds.) much pain to the people he knew in real conference. He went with Dana Stone, life, so let’s skip it. (Lewis, his another high risk photojournalist. Both I was walking around downtown Half biographer, refers to him as “a shameful were never seen or heard from again. Moon Bay when some guy called my human being.”) Their bodies were never found. They had name. I didn’t recognize him, so he been captured by the Viet Cong. explained how he was this guy I knew What’s that? None of us are perfect, from all those years of hanging out in we’ve all done things we regret, so why Flynn’s mother exhausted her finances in downtown Palo Alto (he must have single him out? Yes, none of us are a futile attempt to find her son. In 1984 worked at almost every restaurant there). perfect, but most of us aren’t sociopaths, she had him declared legally dead. She I didn’t recognize him because he had and reading this book, you often got the died in 1994. aged greatly and was in a wheelchair. He impression that’s what Sellers was. I was said that was because of a thunder and a big fan of his. I wish I hadn’t read it. In 2015 archives from her estate went up lightning storm a while back. Apparently for auction, including letters he sent her he was riding his bicycle in downtown XXXXXXXXXX and a “Whatever Happened to Sean HMB one night when the storm started. Flynn” bumper sticker. I don’t know if Errol Flynn inflicted the A bolt of lightning hit a utility pole, same kind of mental cruelty on his kids So that’s what the song “Sean Flynn” by causing electrical wires to fall onto the that Peter Sellers inflicted on his, but The Clash is about. XXXXXXXXXX Anyway, this month marks the 37th taking place at the Marina. Never found anniversary of the film. If you want to it, but found a lot of other weird and read more about it, go to bizarre shit on that trip. SanFranciscoHerald.Net and find “Remembering Liquid Sky” by Zora As I rode on the BART train I thumbed Burden in the Fall 2014 issue. through the latest issue of the SF WEEKLY. There was an article about Herald Archives: 2010 McCartney’s guitarist, this 53 year old guy (the exact same age as me). In the Ace Backwords Goes to a Paul back of the paper was an ad for Desiree McCartney Concert Foxx who was appearing live at the Mitchell Bros Theatre with an all nude By Ace Backwords revue. I momentarily reconsidered my entertainment options for the day, mulling over the comparative merits of For months I’ve been debating whether seeing a 68 year old bass player from to go to the Paul McCartney concert in Liverpool or a bunch of naked 20 year Remember the beautiful ‘80s pop singer San Francisco. In a way it would make old chicks cavorting on stage. But I Stacey Q? She became a Buddhist and the perfect epilogue to my Acid Heroes figured this was a once-in-a-lifetime dropped out of the limelight. (Good for book which basically starts in 1964 when chance to see a Beatle, and I’d probably her). I heard the Beatles singing “She Loves get another chance in this lifetime to see You” for the first time on my transistor a naked woman (at least I’m hoping). So A couple of years before her Madonna- radio at age 7. esque hit, “Two of Hearts,” I had heard I soldiered onwards. her on WLIR, the “New Wave” station in But by the time the day of the show The plan was to just hang around outside New York (well, Long Island). Her band came around it was too late to get the stadium and listen to whatever music was called SSQ, and they sounded like an tickets. 103.7 The Band (the “classic wafted outside. Or maybe I could talk my updated version of Ellie Greenwich or rock” station) was playing their Saturday way inside. I had my trusty Ace the Ronettes. I liked their song, morning Beatles show from 7 to 9, only Backwords press pass from 1992 which “Playback.” The shorter version is better they were playing all McCartney songs to entitled me to backstage access, VIP – punchier. The longer version has a get people in the mood for the concert. treatment, and free buffet privileges, video with a real early '80s New York feel Played a lot of great live stuff, among other things. So perhaps I could to it. The video of the shorter version McCartney doing “Paperback Writer” and dazzle the guy at the door with my just has a picture of the band dressed in “Day Tripper” and a great version of “I credentials, tell him I was working on an Devo-type outfits as the song plays. Got a Feeling,” which reminded me how exclusive McCartney piece for the great even the Beatles minor songs were, Berkeley Barb. He’d no doubt steer me Actually, this video of the longer version Paul singing along with another guy to four burly security guards who has scenes from the movie Liquid Sky. singing the Lennon part (“Everybody had perhaps I could intimidate with veiled That movie was released around the a wet dream, everybody let their hair threats of writing a scathingly critical same time “Playback” came out. Ever down . .”). Even with the millions of review of McCartney’s live show for a seen it? It's about... I forgot. I think it's Beatles cover bands, Paul still does the prestigious local newspaper. Or, barring about a UFO that lands on the Empire best Beatle covers, which is a weird kind that, a scathingly critical blog on my State Building. And aliens make it so that of compliment I guess. Anyways, by the MySpace page. So that stratagem seemed every time people have an orgasm they time the radio show was over I kinda’ unpromising. But I was up for anything. I disappear into thin air. I remember felt like I had already experienced Paul’s had a fresh pack of smokes and a 24 telling the plot to a boss I had years ago live show, so actually seeing it would ounce can of Old English malt liquor in and she said, “I guess only men were probably be redundant. Plus I was my pack. So I was ready for action. disappearing.” (Must have been pre- nervous about the whole idea. I’m Anita Hill office banter).