#dead yard

Among those Mr. Thomson interviews are Errol Flynn’s ex-wife (Flynn spent a good deal of time at his home in Jamaica); Perry Henzell, the director of the 1972 film “The Harder They Come”; the 95-year-old mother of Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records; and aging musicians, politicians and gallery owners. A few of these interviews are a hoot. Blanche Blackwell, it turns out, was one of the writer Ian Fleming’s lovers in Jamaica and was supposedly a model for his character Pussy Galore. Still, where are the street kids, the young politicians, the rappers, the hackers, the idealists, the groupies, the schoolteachers, the chefs, the narcotics kingpins, the bloggers, the wily entrepreneurs?