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Location: UK, in Devon
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The years have not been kind.
Sometimes it's hard to see someone once beautiful in middle age. http://www.sven-erics.com/ shows Bjorn Andresen as he is today. Such a beautiful youth. Such a waste of beauty, somehow..........
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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It is a shame. A great shame. One cannot help being beautiful any nmore than one can help being ugly. But that article seems to show that he resents so much that could have been good.
It was unforgivable for the crew to take him to a meat market. He was just a boy. A fantasy is one thing, but to attmept to force it into life is quite another.
Today he looks like he has had a hard life. And needs a decent meal. He was even accused once of killing a man who claimed to have been his lover i the USA. And yet had never beemn to the USA.
I hope he becomes happy. Such a beautiful child deserves happiness somehow. But all children do, too.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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It is of a different kind than in his youth tho, almost opposite kind actually. His face is one that resembles a craggy cliff, unyielding in its masculinity somehow. Much different from the soft, almost feminine looks of the movie's Tadzio. It is a rather handsome face, in my opinion.
Also, the hair is definitely still the same...
It may be noted though that the name "Björn" in Swedish means "bear". So it is fitting, I suppose, the way he looks, with that name. 
He reminds me a bit of the actor Lance Henriksen by the way.
-L
PS: Did you get my story I sent you after your harddrive crash? I know you're busy, just wondering if it got there or not.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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timmy
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Lenny, are these guys actually any good?
They look like a holiday hotel evening dance band on the Costa del Sol!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Swedish dance band music is maybe to us what country & western music is to the Americans. It's syrupy and inane and easy to listen to if you don't happen to hate it like I do. (Not speaking about c&w here btw, of which I'm not that big a fan of anyway.)
So, didja get the story or not huh?
Hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Hugh!
I'm a big fan of Swedish dance music.
But then, put synthesiser and a bass drum in anything, and I'll listen to it.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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You would NOT enjoy the latter I would think, it's very syrupy and lame kind of jazz-like music with all the character and mood drained away from it.
All tunes are in major and with pretty slow BPM so people can easily waltz around to it, and the text is always about "you and me, hold my hand, let's be together forever, blah-blah-blah", they all sound exactly the same and it's horrible.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Oh.... I know now! my grandfather would play it every Sunday in Konz!
German Schlagermusik, so know we can co-miserate!
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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cchd
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Registered: May 2004
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Due to the early finish to the first Test  ) the local free to air channel (SBS) had to find a filler program this evening and they chose "Death in Venice". I'd never seen it before (but I should have!).
Interesting how neck to knee swim suits can be more "revealing" than Speedos!
Must buy on DVD.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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It is an odd film. Tadzio is more beautifukl than Bjorn. Film makeup is amazing. And the swimsuits show, well, almost everything.
The film was really a study in angst. Shall I speak? Dare I speak? I know one might vioew it as a study in an adult desiring a child, but I saw the adult as the age I was in 1969. I was 17 then. Bjorn was 15. Neither of us were legal!
But what a boring film from the action perspective, and how surreal parts were.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Here is a picture of the real Tadzio as Thomas Mann would have seen him before writing 'Death in Venice'.
You mustn't expect action from Thomas Mann. He is too cerebral. The risk of a film such as 'Death in Venice' is that it cannot convey the essence of an author such Th Mann and so it relies on other things to attract the box office - Mahler's music, scenes of Venice, a beautiful boy, the possibility of a sex intrigue. It cannot be overstated that von Aschenbach nevers speaks to Tadzio. He lusts after him, but mentally and emotionally, never physically. It would have been disgusting if it had been physical.
Mann can never be part of an 'I want it now' society. His works are a lifetime study. Unfortunately I haven't a lifetime left to do so.
Wladyslaw Moes
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I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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I think there's still beauty in that face. 
Big different between dance music and dance BAND music... 
