tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post4800945872426457179..comments2024-03-28T13:22:07.685-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Remembering Norman BeanJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-81779477930226428232021-09-13T09:07:03.185-04:002021-09-13T09:07:03.185-04:00For all things ERB don't forget to check out B...For all things ERB don't forget to check out Bill Hillman's excellent site, ERBzine. I've used it for years.<br /><br />https://www.erbzine.com/war/Chris L Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02198747116181240115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-12795646444943274922021-09-01T19:09:09.699-04:002021-09-01T19:09:09.699-04:00Happy Birthday, Mr. Burroughs, and thank you.Happy Birthday, Mr. Burroughs, and thank you.John E. Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424841103552780730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-12506151327411879192021-09-01T12:33:36.798-04:002021-09-01T12:33:36.798-04:00Funny, I was reading an old military history magaz...Funny, I was reading an old military history magazine last night and one of the articles mentioned in passing that ERB had been in Hawaii the day of Pearl Harbor and promptly applied to become a war correspondent. He was (if my math serves) 67 at the time, and became one of the oldest people to serve in that role, although I haven't found much more detail about what he did and where he went. Author William Brinkley (who I'd only heard of due to a tenuous connection to the Exorcist film, but was apparently quite the name at one point) included a fictionalized account of a PR trip involving ERB in the South Pacific in his best-selling book Don't Go Near the Water, although sadly that section seems to have been left out of the film adaptation and the book is eluding me so far.<br /><br />Immensely influential author in many ways, not least of which was his deliberate (and successful) push to make Tarzan a massive multi-media phenomenon, something he did against the advice of his agents and financial advisors. Really changed the way fictional characters were marketed, although it took a long time to evolve into things like the MCU and franchise IP marketing.<br /><br />Always been particularly amused by the fact that Rudyard Kipling regarded ERB as the very best of the many people who imitated his Jungle Book, although I don't know for sure whether ERB ever actually said he read the book so it may have been more parallel evolution than flattering imitation. Kipling had a tendency to believe he was a bit more universally read than he actually was, after all. Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com