Does a compliment from Big Ton mean that I can consider myself inaugurated as a Buff Bastard?
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I live in what until development in the 60s was the primary outside filming location for countless films and T.V. productions. Nearby Lake Sherwood still boasts the Oaks Flynn dashed about under. That horse Olivia deHavilland rode sidesaddle when meeting Robin? His name was Trigger and soon after he was teamed with Roy Rogers. Flynn's Bungalow off Mulholland went through a succession of owners until another actor did a extensive renovation in the late 80s. The back hillside was cleared for fire suppression  and they found a huge midden of cheap whiskey bottles that required several trucks to haul out.
The old Holllywood system could, to an extent mold a public personnae until a Marion Morrisson became 'the duke' regardless of role. When these works of fiction were first put into film they faced audiences who had read the stories and had expectations. Holmes would never fire a gatling at a Hansom cab as it met a ramp, flipped  over and burst into flames. In fact, Rathbone in real life was the leader of Hollywood actors who set a rather snobbish social order to guard against what has always been called 'Hollywood Babylon' for it's excess. The sneering of Rathbone vs Flynn in Robin Hood was hardly affectation. Modern Film is becoming mere video game, and even Avatar will be looked back as quaint for using actors to create the movement.
There was NEVER a chinese Charlie Chan. What Bond needs is another Connery from Scotland.