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Documentary 'The Most Beautiful Boy in the World'
'Tadzio' in Flushing
At last, I saw this documentary at the film festival Film by the Sea in Vlissingen/Flushing (in the province Zeeland in Holland), place of birth of Michiel de Ruyter. It was announced that Björn Andresen would be present on September 13th, so I did not hesitate to order a ticket for that day.
Waiting in the train station, yesterday morning, i felt a bit like professor Aschenbach, returning to the Lido again, after having regretted his departure from Venice. After all, Börn played a special part (double meaning) in the lives of boylovers who saw the movie 'Death in Venice', one of the masterpieces in Visconti's trilogy ('The Damned', 'Death in Venice' and 'Ludwig'). Seeing Björn, the icon, in the flesh, would be even more sensational than seeing some famous pop star performing live, in my case anyway.
Apart from feeling like Aschenbach, there are also some similarities between Venice and Vlissingen. Both are towns at sea, their names start with a V and the two of them have a film festival. After a two hour journey I arrived in beautiful weather. It was warm and the sun was shining constantly. I followed the signs with CINEMA on them and ended up, not far from the boulevard, at the cinema Cinecity.
Just before entering the hall where the documentary would be shown, I heard someone say, 'What a pity!' after having discussed something with a festival employee. And indeed, what I had expected, was worded by the presenter of the movie, who told that Björn had called off his appointment and that they did not want to push him, since he had been pushed so much in his life. So, no chance for me to film Björn or to take pictures of him.
Nevertheless, I had the feeling that he was there, in this hall in Flushing, when seeing the movie. The screen was very wide, occupying the whole frontwall, so Björn could be seen bigger than life. Not only in his present state - with beard and wrinkled skin, but with an unaltered charming smile - but also as a boy, going through different life stages, from baby boy to adolescent, on photos from his sister's album and on film.
You see very realistic scenes of an aged man, who was once called 'the most beautiful boy in the world' by Visconti, in his apartment in Stockholm, dealing with his lady friend, who is like a mother to him, bathing in a swimmingpool and looking at papers which prove that his mother was found dead in a park when Björn was 12 years old. He was brought up by his grandmother, who wanted him to be famous and thus stimulated him to do an audition for Visconti, who was looking for his Tadzio. There are flashbacks to the time that Björn had a lot of fun making the movie. He had a nanny, who looked after him and took care that he made his homework.
The documentary focuses on the exploitation of child stars in general and of Björn in particular. It was in the period after the release of the movie that the beautiful, 17-year-old boy got in trouble, when homosexuals began to pay him for his presence. He also hated it to be called 'the most beautiful boy in the world'.
But the most difficult period in his life was when he and his wife lost a child. He started drinking and saw no reason to live anymore. Eventually, he started acting again. He seems rather happy now as an actor and a musician.
I think that Björn's real presence in Flushing would not have added much to the documentary. I can imagine that he did not want to be confronted with painful questions about the past.
I wonder if he realizes that he made a terrfiic contribution to the history of cinema by his acting and that he made such a big impression on us, boylovers.
When I left the cinema, I had the feeling that I had had a long talk with a soul mate, who had also told me something new: that he was studying The Teachings of Jesus. 
September 13th, 2021
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zaterdag 4 september 2021
Shine - 'A million little things'
Candidates for the Dutch finals of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZSubu160A
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Nieuwe boylovedetective van John Stefan: 'De moordmuzikantjes'
Muziekdocent Carl Vlasakker is manager van de death metalband Death Circle, bestaande uit muzikanten van rond de 14 jaar, alle leerlingen van hem op een middelbare school. Hij is heimelijk verliefd op zanger Jason, die hij vergeefs probeert te onttrekken aan de invloed van drummer Storm, die is geobsedeerd door alles wat met de dood heeft te maken. De christelijke Carl ziet Jason steeds meer aan hem ontglippen, zeker als Carls neef Arjen van der Broek, eveneens popmuzikant naast zijn werk als fietsenverkoper, de band verder wil helpen. Hij wordt de nieuwe manager van Death Circle, maar overschrijdt grenzen als hij erotische muziekclips met de jongens gaat maken. Ook neemt hij zijn buurjongetje Rudolf op schoot, tot woede van diens vader, waarna hij door de buurt wordt gestigmatiseerd als pedofiel.
Als Arjen wordt vermoord, staat inspecteur Bouazigli voor de taak om uit te vinden wie de moordenaar is van Arjen, die wordt vermeld op de website van SKS (StopKinderSeks). Jason roept na de tragische gebeurtenis.de hulp van Carl in. Deze gaat met de bandleden naar een concert van Metallica, waar Jason wordt ontvoerd.
Klik hier:
DE MOORDMUZIKANTJES
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A. Moonen's Diaries
A. Moonen, born August 28th, 1937, was a Dutch writer, who lived for a long time from welfare in The Hague and Amsterdam. He openly wrote about his sexual contacts with men, women and boys, often very detailed, so that his audience was not wide. Yet you might call him a writer of literature, because he was poetic and an inventor of new words. He used preferred spelling, which was common since the Sixties.
Moonen was a psychiatric patient, who often stayed in clinics. He could be loud when meeting people, talking about sexual things and thus embarrassing them and the people surrounding them. He wrote an essay about the 'anal variant', which he liked very much (also with his 12-year-old YF), for the well-known student's magazine Propria Cures.
He also wrote several autobiographical books, from 1977 on, in which his first book Stadsgerechten (City dishes) was published, up to 2000. The here posted excerpts from his diaries are from Stadsgerechten and Openbaar leven (Public life). He died in 2007, 69 years old.
dinsdag 12 januari 2021
Jongensacteur Walt Klink
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