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-Looking forward to 2001
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To those who are new on the list today (and there are a lot of you), welcome! We are happy to have you with us on the very day the new year begins. You are now a true member of the Silverfoxes Club. I opened the first Silverfoxes Clubhouse after acquiring a following from my postings on another list starting in August 1997. That led to my Internet column on Yanceyweb and to a series of nude pix of me which were widely circulated in cyberspace. When Yanceyweb went off-line in March 1998, a friend suggested that I continue the column in my own domain, so I acquired www.benboxer.com and opened Ben Boxer's Silverfoxes Clubhouse with the inestimable help of four men with great expertise in Web management and/or design. I did not know Jack Schitt, as they say, about it, and followed their lead in everything. I was supposed to do nothing but write columns and stories while the experts took care of the rest, which they did, devotedly. But the passage of time saw the attrition of my "staff" until I was the only one left. Fortunately, I had paid attention to all they had done on the site and had learned enough to keep it afloat despite many storms along the way, including a fray with pirates who stole my domain name, silverfoxes.org. But that battle earned me a front-line education in staying alive on the Internet. Although for the next two-and-a-half years we were at maturemen.org, I finally won back silverfoxes.org, and here we are today. I have attached a New Year's card from the Silverfoxes Clubhouse which asks a good question: "Where do we go from here?" I don't know, but wherever it is, I say, "Full speed ahead!" Let's take two thoughts with us. The first comes from my favorite French actress, Jeanne Moreau: "Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age." And the second comes from John Barrymore, Sr., great dramatic actor and also the grandfather of film star Drew Barrymore: "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
Happy 2001! Greetings all, and Happy New 2001!
Some of you may want to read my latest Ben Boxer column in Boxer's Shorts
at the Silverfoxes Clubhouse, "New Year's Eve With Tallulah."
Ben, I read with interest New Year's Eve with Tallulah. I loved the anecdote. I always loved her voice and her way of speaking. She was in a play about an American I think who is on a ship and who gets his leg cut off by a Nazi? I only heard it once, so my memory is sketchy. While perusing your site, I read a perspective about a younger man who had gone to many car stops and only met guys who wanted him to service them until he met the guy he is presently with. He talked about the changes since his lover had prostate cancer and is no longer interested in sex per se. I found the perspective very interesting and touching. Is there anyway of contacting this guy, or does he choose to remain anonymous? I want to wish you, Bigben, and all the readers a wonderful 2001!
Hugs,
Bob and Harley
You are thinking about a gripping Alfred Hitchcock film called "Lifeboat," in which survivors of a passenger ship torpedoed by a German U-boat during WW II are cast adrift in a lifeboat after the U-boat is also destroyed. A mysterious fellow survivor on board turns out to be the Nazi captain of the U-boat, played by silverfox Walter Slezak. Tallulah is wonderful as the rich girl draped in diamonds and mink, the priorities of her life. It was filmed entirely in a water tank in the studio, but Hitchcock's brilliant directorial technique gave it the power of reality. I saw it as a child and have been haunted by its scenes ever since.
As for the "perspective" about the young man and the stops, that is not
ringing a bell. Can you be more specific, telling me where it is found and
what it is called?
Ben Boxer notes: When I was young, novels with an openly gay theme were rare. The first one I ever read was Gore Vidal's "The City and the Pillar." I was stunned to read that I was not alone in being what I was. I read it avidly in bed at night, using a flashlight (torch) to read by, often inspired to masturbate, not by the book's graphic depictions of male sex, of which there were hardly any, but by the mere fact of its existence as a validation of my own inner feelings. I had just entered puberty and had experimented with male cousins, but "The City and the Pillar" revealed more of me to myself than had those furtive gropings behind the barn or between the sheets. I was not as deeply moved by gay literature again until I read James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room" whose protagonist is a gay expatriate in Paris falling in love with an Italian. Five years later, I was living in Paris, too, and madly in love with an Italian of my own. How well I remembered then a line from Baldwin's book on an afternoon when I waited for my lover on a bench in the gardens of the Tuileries: "Here came my baby indeed, through all that sunlight." I felt the intensity of déjà vu. These books become a part of us. Their authors become our mentors, or friends. Whenever I see the names of men like Gore Vidal or James Baldwin, my heart stirs with a sense of recognition as though I have come into the presence of someone I loved.
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Text: I had the pleasure of watching a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" this past November. A great play with a wonderful cast with Spaulding Grey, Chris Noth, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Learned, Christine Ebersole, Mark Blum, and Charles Durning. Unfortuneately, the performance that I saw did not have Charles Durning, he was sick and it was only the second day.
Now, if you want to see a great off-off-Broadway play, see "The End of
the World Party" about 5 gay guys sharing a house on Fire Island!
The changeover from the Ben Boxer lists to the Silverfoxes Club list has been completed. As it was the work of robots and software rather than my usual stunning personal efficiency (hehe!), errors may have been made. If so, please write to me, and we will straighten it out. The subscribers to BenBoxerPixList were transferred to the Regular Version of the Silverfoxes Club. (You get pictures.) Those on BenBoxerList and BenBoxerListDigest were placed on the Digest Version of the Silverfoxes Club. (You don't get pictures.)
Some of you may have been on two of the above, meaning that you prolly got
transferred twice.
If your membership is in the wrong place, let me know, and I will correct
it.
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