When They Were Young

[Moondance]

Walter Bonatti (1930-2011) was an Italian mountain climber, explorer and journalist. Famed for his climbing panache, he pioneered little known and technically difficult climbs in the Alps, Himalayas and Patagonia. Among many climbing achievements, he is remembered for a solo climb of a new route on the southwest pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958 and the first solo climb in winter of the north face of the Matterhorn in 1965. Immediately after the Matterhorn climb, Bonatti announced his retirement from professional climbing at age 35. He authored many mountaineering books and spent the remainder of his career travelling off the beaten track as a reporter for the Italian magazine Epoca. He died of pancreatic cancer in Rome, age 81.

 

Here, in 1955 at age 25, he is the handsome fellow in the foreground on Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps:

 

 

Edited October 27, 2018 by Moondance

[Moondance]

Seven years after a six-year run as Wally Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, Tony Dow goes scuba diving in 1970 (age 25):

 

 

Born in 1945, now 73 years old, Dow is a sculptor, film producer and director, as well as an actor and former Junior Olympics diving champion. He was born and raised in Hollywood. His mother was a stuntwoman in early Westerns, and Clara Bow's movie body double.

 

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[TruthBTold]

Seven years after a six-year run as Wally Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, Tony Dow goes scuba diving in 1970 (age 25):

 

 

Born in 1945, now 73 years old, Dow is a sculptor, film producer and director, as well as an actor and former Junior Olympics diving champion. He was born and raised in Hollywood. His mother was a stuntwoman in early Westerns, and Clara Bow's movie body double.

 

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What a cutie.

[+ Trebor]

Tony Dow today

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[Moondance]

David Scott (born in 1932, now 86 years old) is an American engineer, former test pilot and NASA astronaut. He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963, and made his first flight into space as the pilot of the two-man Gemini 8 mission (March 16-17, 1966) with Neil Armstrong. As a member of the Apollo 15 crew, Scott was the seventh person (of 12 total) to walk on the Moon.

 

Following the death of John Young in January 2018, Scott is the last living commander of a successful Apollo lunar landing mission and, as such, the only person alive who has flown a spacecraft to a landing on the Moon.

 

Here, at age 33, preparing for Gemini 8 in early 1966:

 

With Neil Armstong, 1966:

[TruthBTold]

There has to be some correlation between the fact that these damn astronauts are always so handsome. I think that there is some reverse discrimination that way. I would never have been allowed in one of the moon landing.

[Moondance]

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) conducting the New York City Symphony at age 27, 1945:

[Moondance]

David Hasselhoff, born in Baltimore in 1952 (now 66 years old), destined to become (according to Guinness World Records) The Most Watched Man on Television, seen here in 1972, at age 20, when he was a student at CalArts:

[Moondance]

Steven Spielberg, born in Cincinnati in 1946 (now 71 years old) seen here in the summer of 1974, at age 28, during the filming of Jaws (1975):

[TruthBTold]

I bet he had a great time when he was out and about. I did not know about this. Should be interesting.

 

http://www.newnownext.com/bradley-cooper-jake-gyllenhaal-gay-composer-leonard-bernstein-biopics/05/2018/

 

 

 

[Moondance]

DeVeren Bookwalter (1939-1987) was an actor and director who, in 1975, became the first person to win three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his production, direction and performance in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Globe Playhouse in West Hollywood.

 

Bookwalter is seen below at age 24 in Andy Warhol’s Blow Job, filmed in January 1964. He was just, according to Warhol, "a good looking kid that happened to be hanging around the Factory that day" when Warhol's original choice for the film failed to show up.

 

Blow Job shows only the face of an uncredited Bookwalter as he apparently receives fellatio from an unseen partner. The viewer only gets to assume a blow job is actually occurring. Shot at 24 frames per second, Warhol specified that it must be projected at 16 frames per second, slowing it down by a third.

 

[TruthBTold]

DeVeren Bookwalter (1939-1987) was an actor and director who, in 1975, became the first person to win three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his production, direction and performance in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Globe Playhouse in West Hollywood.

Bookwalter is seen below at age 24 in Andy Warhol’s Blow Job, filmed in January 1964. He was just, according to Warhol, "a good looking kid that happened to be hanging around the Factory that day" when Warhol's original choice for the film failed to show up.

Blow Job shows only the face of an uncredited Bookwalter as he apparently receives fellatio from an unseen partner. The viewer only gets to assume a blow job is actually occurring. Shot at 24 frames per second, Warhol specified that it must be projected at 16 frames per second, slowing it down by a third.

 

 

Hopefully for Bookwalter he actually was receiving a blow job when filming Warhol's little escapade.

[Moondance]

Hopefully for Bookwalter he actually was receiving a blow job when filming Warhol's little escapade.

It's debatable. Warhol (in his 1980 book Popism: The Warhol Sixties) says that he originally asked a man named Charles Rydell, the boyfriend of artist and filmmaker Jerome Hill, to appear in the film, promising him five beautiful boys to suck his cock. When Rydell failed to show up at the appointed hour, Warhol called him. Rydell said he thought Warhol was kidding, and that he had no intention of appearing in such a film. In Warhol's recounting, there really were five beautiful boys and they hung around for the replacement actor, but there's been speculation that that's just storytelling.

 

Sam Ishii-Gonzales, a professor of media studies at the New School in NYC wrote this about Blow Job years later (2001):

 

Like all of Warhol’s best works, [it] is built on a tension between the serious and the absurd, between the real and the artificial. (“All of my films are artificial but then everything is sort of artificial. I don’t know where the artificial stops and the real starts.” - WARHOL) Is the young man we watch for half an hour really [getting a blow job]? Is he faking it? (Perhaps the event is real but the pleasure is faked, or vice versa?) Will he climax? When? Will the camera catch this moment or will the magazine run out of film at the crucial moment? These thoughts and more (much more – it depends on who you are) pass through the spectator’s mind as s/he sits and watches Warhol’s Blow Job. It is a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience.

But you never know, TBT. Maybe by posting about this, some longtime cocksuckers right here on the forum will be prompted to step forward and own their place in cinematic history.

[Moondance]

Peter Schlesinger (born in Los Angeles in 1948, now 70 years old) is an American artist, author and former artist's model who was the subject of many notable paintings by David Hockney including "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972" and "Peter Schlesinger with Polaroid Camera." He was an 18-year-old student at UCLA when he met 28-year-old Hockney. They began an affair and Schlesinger relocated with Hockney to London, where he studied at the Slade School of Art. Schlesinger went on to pursue his own career as a visual artist, creating sculptures, paintings and photographs. The 1974 film A Bigger Splash (a sort of "fictional documentary," named after Hockney's famous painting) is about their breakup.

On the left, Schlesinger in 1968, at age 20; and on the right, in 1970, at 22:

 

Here, with Hockney, in A Bigger Splash, 1974, at age 26:

 

A Bigger Splash: DVD Review

Philip Horne admires Jack Hazan's artful 1974 film about David Hockney.

By Philip Horne, www.telegraph.co.uk, 27 Jan 2012

 

Jack Hazan's slow, artful, disturbing 1974 film about David Hockney and his gay inner circle during the years 1971-73 has been described by Martin Scorsese as "one of the finest films I have seen about an artist and his work".

 

Scorsese said he was inspired by its flat, alienated shooting style while shooting his own Taxi Driver the following year. Certainly the sense of quiet, dull, yet still tense rooms can be traced in Scorsese's film – maybe also the ironic counterpoint of sound and vision, the clash of apparently undramatic images with the superb, mournful score by Patrick Gowers.

 

It’s a model too, more directly, for Scorsese’s unjustly neglected 1989 short film Life Lessons (his contribution to New York Stories), which also constructs a narrative round the rhythm of a famous painter’s preparation for a show, in relation to the love of an older artist for a beautiful younger one (only in that case a female one).

 

It’s sometimes called a documentary, and it’s certainly a wonderfully shot document of its mostly rather drab time, but A Bigger Splash is, as Hazan has acknowledged, "all an illusion". It creates, by pre-planned staging and editing its own often surreal romantic fiction – of Hockney’s difficulties in producing work for his next show because of his break-up with the beautiful young Californian painter Peter Schlesinger.

 

In a way the film is a piece of opportunism: and the supposedly sorrowing Hockney comes off better from it than the portrayed-as-narcissistic Schlesinger, who nevertheless cooperated fully with its makers (there is much nudity, and one explicit sex scene, highly controversial at the time).

Edited November 2, 2018 by Moondance

[bigvalboy]

Why does this thread make me feel old?

 

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[Moondance]

Vincenzo Galdi (1871-1961), born in Naples, was an Italian model and photographer. As a young man, he often posed for Guglielmo Plüschow, and may have been his lover. (Plüschow, 1852-1930, was a German photographer who moved to Italy, became known for his nude photographs of local youths and was often in trouble with the law.)

 

Descended from an ancient Italian noble house (his father was a baron), Galdi enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples. During his studies he was especially interested in optics and photographic technique, even building a camera with a telescopic lens by himself. In 1890, he moved to Rome and opened a photographic studio specializing in male and female nudes. He soon became as well-known in the field as Plüschow and Wilhelm von Gloeden, and is now regarded as a pioneer of Italian erotic photography. (He was the first to break the taboo against showing an erect cock.)

 

Plüschow relocated to Rome about five years after Galdi, took a residence on the same street and the two continued to collaborate. In 1902, the year that Galdi married, Plüschow was charged with "solicitation to prostitution" and "seduction of minors" and was jailed for eight months. Another scandal followed in 1907, and, in 1910, Plüschow left Italy for good (returning to Berlin). At about the same time, Galdi gave up photography and opened the Galleria Galdi, an art gallery that remained in business until the end of the 1950s, when Galdi closed it due to old age and failing health. He died of prostate cancer at 90.

 

Here, in 1890, photographed in the Posillipo area of Naples by Plüschow, Galdi is age 19:

 

Again in Posillipo, 1890, at 19:

 

In the early 1890s:

 

And here, in 1895, Galdi is age 23/24:

[Moondance]

Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947), the youngest of 12 children of a German-Jewish father and a Venezuelan mother of Basque heritage, was a composer. conductor, music critic, diarist, theatre director and salon singer. His family moved from Venezuela to Paris when he was three years old, and it was France that would "determine and define Hahn's musical identity in later life" The city and its cultural resources were an ideal home for the precocious Hahn. Despite the Paris Conservatoire's antipathy toward child prodigies, he entered the school at age ten. Best known as a composer of songs, Hahn wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie.

 

By 1894 he had written many songs about love, but his appearance of worldly sophistication masked shyness about his own feelings. It was in that year that be met Marcel Proust, three years his senior. Although neither admitted to homosexuality, it is generally believed that they became lovers. They shared a love for painting, literature, and Fauré, and often travelled together and collaborated on artistic projects. Hahn honed his writing skills during this period, becoming a leading music critic. Seldom appreciating his contemporaries, he admired artists of the past. His writing, like Proust's, was characterized by a deft skill at depicting small details.

 

Hahn became a French citizen in 1909, volunteered for service in WWI (at age 40) and was general manager of the Cannes Casino opera house in the 1920s and '30s. Forced to leave Paris in 1940 during the Nazi occupation, he returned at the end of the war to fulfill an appointment as director of the Paris Opera, but died of a brain tumor two years later.

 

This is the photograph of himself that Hahn, age 19/20, gave to Proust in 1894:

[+ Charlie]

Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947), the youngest of 12 children of a German-Jewish father and a Venezuelan mother of Basque heritage, was a composer. conductor, music critic, diarist, theatre director and salon singer. His family moved from Venezuela to Paris when he was three years old, and it was France that would "determine and define Hahn's musical identity in later life" The city and its cultural resources were an ideal home for the precocious Hahn. Despite the Paris Conservatoire's antipathy toward child prodigies, he entered the school at age ten. Best known as a composer of songs, Hahn wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie.

 

By 1894 he had written many songs about love, but his appearance of worldly sophistication masked shyness about his own feelings. It was in that year that be met Marcel Proust, three years his senior. Although neither admitted to homosexuality, it is generally believed that they became lovers. They shared a love for painting, literature, and Fauré, and often travelled together and collaborated on artistic projects. Hahn honed his writing skills during this period, becoming a leading music critic. Seldom appreciating his contemporaries, he admired artists of the past. His writing, like Proust's, was characterized by a deft skill at depicting small details.

 

Hahn became a French citizen in 1909, volunteered for service in WWI (at age 40) and was general manager of the Cannes Casino opera house in the 1920s and '30s. Forced to leave Paris in 1940 during the Nazi occupation, he returned at the end of the war to fulfill an appointment as director of the Paris Opera, but died of a brain tumor two years later.

 

This is the photograph of himself that Hahn, age 19/20, gave to Proust in 1894:

Hahn was the first cousin of the mother of one of my dearest friends. He fled Paris ahead of the Nazis with their family when my friend was an infant. I once went to Glyndebourne to hear my friend sing a recital of Hahn's songs.

[Moondance]

Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), played a character named Indio in six episodes of the television show Sea Hunt (1958-1961). The show starred Lloyd Bridges and helped launch the careers of Nimoy, Bruce Dern, Robert Conrad, Larry Hagman, Bridges' sons Beau and Jeff, and Jack Nicholson (who appeared in the last episode of the series). Seen below in Sea Hunt in 1958, Nimoy is 27:

[+ honcho]

Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), played a character named Indio in six episodes of the television show Sea Hunt (1958-1961). The show starred Lloyd Bridges and helped launch the careers of Nimoy, Bruce Dern, Robert Conrad, Larry Hagman, Bridges' sons Beau and Jeff, and Jack Nicholson (who appeared in the last episode of the series). Seen below in Sea Hunt in 1958, Nimoy is 27:

 

I never saw him shirtless as Spock; when the series first started he only would have been 5-8 older (depending on when *this* picture was taken). As 45 would say ... "Sad" ...

[+ poolboy48220]

I never saw him shirtless as Spock; when the series first started he only would have been 5-8 older (depending on when *this* picture was taken). As 45 would say ... "Sad" ...

"Patterns of Force", the episode where they encountered a civilization modeled after Nazi Germany, had Kirk & Spock shirtless in a jail cell. They'd been whipped, apparently, because Spock had green blood lines on his back.

[RealAvalon]

Peter Schlesinger (born in Los Angeles in 1948, now 70 years old) is an American artist, author and former artist's model who was the subject of many notable paintings by David Hockney including "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972"

 

Hockney's painting just sold for $90+ million - setting a record for a living artist's work

Edited November 17, 2018 by RealAvalon

[TruHart1]

Hockney's painting just sold for $80+ million - setting a record for a living artist's work

 

TruHart1

[BabyBoomer]

Jim Morrison

 

 

Jim will be forever young. He along with Jimi & Janis are all members of the "27 Club". We lost them all way too soon.

 

~Boomer~

[BabyBoomer]

Jim Morrison

 

 

Jim will be forever young. He along with Jimi & Janis are all members of the "27 Club". We lost them all way too soon.

 

~Boomer~