Inherited Risk
Subtitle: Errol Flynn and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780743210904
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Films, cinema; Individual Movie Actors And Actresses; Biography/Autobiography; Motion picture actors and actresses; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Flynn, Sean,; Flynn, Errol,; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography & Autobiography / General; Flynn, Errol; Flynn, Sean; Motion picture actors and actr; United States; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; War photographers; 1909-1959; 1941-; Biography
First sentence: On April 6, 1970, the war photographer Sean Flynn-the brave, charismatic son of Errol Flynn-rode his motorcycle into a roadblock, was captured by the Vietcong and vanished forever into the jungle.
Description: This brillant father-son biography explores the scandalous life of movie star Errol Flynn and his son's equally doomed and glamorous life as a war photographer in Vietnam. (Review) : Literary critic and biographer Meyers traces the tragic similarities between Hollywood legend Errol Flynn and his son Sean, a freewheeling war photographer who died in the Vietnamese conflict. Errol Flynn's decadent lifestyle is legendary, and semifictional accounts abound, including his own My Wicked, Wick Ways.