#jan verhoeven

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House (1974-75) in Grijpskerke, the Netherlands, by Jan Verhoeven

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Flesh + Blood (1985)

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

Cinematography by Jan de Bont

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TURKISH DELIGHT:

Narcissist artist

Destroy his relationship

Then tragedy strikes

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Theo’s Buitelingen (60): Hoge Pirelli's en Liggende Achten

“Hoek Hobbemastraat-Stadhouderskade daar werd hij in de vroege ochtend vanEerste Pinksterdag op de fiets geschept door een auto.” Zo opent de rouwadvertentiein de Volkskrant van 29 mei 2010. Tonio van der Heijden is verongelukt. Eenentwintigjaar, geboren in 1988, het jaar dat een andere jonge Van der Heijden ook verongelukte.Was het een selffulfilling prophecy, een verzoeking der goden, wie zal…

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'Basic Instinct' 4K bluray steelbook.

Special features include:

Blu-ray Disc 1

Feature

Audio commentary with Camille Paglia

Audio commentary with Paul Verhoeven and Jan de Bont

Basic Instinct: Sex, Death and Stone

Blu-ray - Disc 2

An unending story - Scoring Basic Instinct

Blonde Poison - The making of

Cast & Crew interviews featurette

Storyboard comparisons (Love scene - Car Chase - Elevator Murder)

Screen tests (Sharon Stone x 4 - Jeanne Tripplehorn x 1)

4K UHD Disc

Feature

Audio commentary with Camille Paglia

Audio commentary with Paul Verhoeven and Jan de Bont

Basic Instinct: Sex, Death and Stone

An unending story - Scoring Basic Instinct

Blonde Poison - The making of

Cast & Crew interviews featurette

Storyboard comparisons (Love scene - Car Chase - Elevator Murder)

Screen tests (Sharon Stone x 4 - Jeanne Tripplehorn x 1)

On sale now for £24.99 through Zavvi.

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Wylan's Tutors.

Jan began hiring tutors for Wylan starting at age six. He established a strict rule: no tutor would be hired for more than two years if they couldn't succeed in teaching Wylan to read and write. He also purposefully hired people from different countries, thinking that it would somehow factor into Wylan's learning and cover all bases.

Age 6-7: Mr. Verhoeven (age 45) - A rather strict Kerch man who was set in his ways and absolutely did not possess the sensitivity and patience that a young child required for learning. He would easily become irritated with Wylan and would often snap at him, which only made the young child fear him. He was let go when Marya managed to convince Jan that they needed to hire someone with a more gentle approach.

Age 8: Miss. Orlova (age 25) - A kind Ravkan woman who was patient with Wylan. She encouraged and nurtured his creative side, believing that doing so would naturally lead him to seek out art and music books. She was right in thinking such as Wylan soon began to express interest in the history of art, the memoirs of artists, and encyclopedias relating to music. Unfortunately, Jan was adamant that she was coddling Wylan and fired her. Wylan was upset because, by this point, he had lost his mother and had been unknowingly seeking comfort and warmth in another female figure in a desperate attempt to fill the void that had been left behind.

Age 9-11: Mrs. Dewine (age 56) - A snooty woman from the Wandering Isle. Like the first tutor Wylan had, she was also strict and often pushed Wylan to practice for hours without proper breaks. She believed in organic treatments and alternative medicine, which she recommended to Jan. He purchased oils, creams, and soaps that were said to "help with clearing the mind" and demanded Wylan use them. Of course, they were useless and a waste of money. Mrs. Dewine was let go because she failed to "fix" Wylan. Even several years after having her as his tutor, Wylan still hates the smell of coconut — it reminds him of the overpowering scent of the hand cream she constantly used.

Age 12: Miss. Sörenstam (age 21) - A Fjerdan woman who was living in Ketterdam for a brief time. The only reason she even got the job as Wylan's tutor was because Gert Van Verent, a member of the Merchant Council, recommended her purely based on her "lovely disposition", saying that his son had learned well from her. Jan, immediately hired her, thinking that maybe Wylan would learn better if he had a pretty teacher. He was unaware that as his son was approaching puberty, he was gradually realizing that he had no interest in women. Miss Sörenstam, while harmless enough, had no real skill for teaching and soon headed back to Fjerda.

Age 13: Mr. Gedda (age 36) - An empathetic Zemeni man who tried his best. He would encourage Wylan to doodle and get a feel for how different shapes could make up letters. Due to the relaxed state of their sessions, Wylan was able to write his name for the first time. The two of them often spoke about Novyi Zem and Wylan enjoyed hearing stories about his family. However, Mr. Gedda didn't agree with Jan's practices, especially when he lingered during their sessions to breathe down their necks. He confronted him about it one day, saying that he needed to lay off the pressure if Wylan was to make progress. After that encounter, Wylan never saw Mr. Gedda again.

Age 14-16: Mr. Kamei (age 62) - A Shu Han scholar who never quite connected with Wylan because he had closed up by this point. That didn't stop him from trying, though. While he worked out ways to teach Wylan (he was very much aware of the time limit he had) Jan was seeking out other methods, such as hypnosis. He dragged Wylan to a number of "professionals" and when it didn't work, they blamed Wylan for not "believing enough." Jan also turned to tonics and drugged his son for a time, thinking it would do something. This only caused Wylan to be out of it during tutoring sessions and Mr. Kamei resigned before his trial period was over because he could no longer stand by and watch the abuse continue. Unfortunately, he knew the power Jan Van Eck held and couldn't find the courage to report him to the Merchant Council — he had a family of his own to think of.

Age 16: Mr. Borovkov (age 40) - An intimidating Ravkan man who was often very frustrated with his student. During this time, Jan started to beat Wylan. He hated his son and could no longer hide it. Upon seeing the way Wylan was being treated, Mr. Borovkov realized that violence wasn't frowned upon in the Van Eck household and began to lash out at Wylan whenever he made mistakes. Wylan was afraid of him and would flee to the gardens to hide every time he had a tutoring session. On more than one occasion, he was dragged back to the library, kicking and screaming. Fortunately for Wylan, Mr. Borovkov suddenly stopped showing up. Jan had no idea what happened to him, either. The theory is that he skipped town due to a major run-in with the Stadwatch.

Age 17-18: Mr. De Lange (age 31) - A Kerch man who saw the potential in Wylan. Mr. De Lange thought it best to carry out most of their sessions in another setting, figuring a change of environment away from his father's judging glare would do him some good. They often visited the Ketterdam University where Wylan was able to find peace and quiet to study:

“I used to meet with one of my tutors here, back when my father still thought… The tutor had a lot of interesting stories. And I always liked the maps. Tracing the letters sometimes made it easier to… It’s how I found the passage.” - Chapter 5, Crooked Kingdom.

Mr. De Lange was understanding and Wylan gradually opened up. He found it easier to speak with him than any of his previous tutors and this slowly helped him get back on track. They worked together to come up with methods that would help Wylan in his learning:

"So just do one thing at a time." It was a technique one of his tutors had taught him to try to keep him from getting overwhelmed by the page. It hadn't worked, particularly not when his father was looming over him, but Wylan had managed to apply it elsewhere." - Chapter 14, Crooked Kingdom.

During De Lange's employment, Wylan developed a crush. If he were to look back on it with a level head, he would probably recognize that it was an unhealthy attachment that manifested because he was a lonely, young man who wasn't receiving attention or affection. Due to his age, hormones also played a big part, which led to Wylan flirting with De Lange one night in the Van Eck library.

He hadn't expected anything to come of it, so was surprised when De Lange responded positively. They ended up kissing and it nearly turned sexual (with De Lange going so far as to rid Wylan of most of his clothing and lifting him against one of the shelves) but then he realized what he was doing and pulled away. Wylan responded with confusion: what was the problem if it was a mutual thing? But De Lange was too guilty to continue and quickly took his leave. He remained Wylan's tutor for about a week longer before handing in his resignation. He didn't state a reason other than having important family business he needed to attend to. One of the maids ended up gossiping about how she was certain there had been a possible affair between them, which ended up spreading around certain circles. This is what Inej overheard while searching for information on Wylan:

“The servants at the Van Eck house are paid well enough that they’re hard to bribe. The information I got didn’t add up to much. There were rumours Wylan had been caught in a sweaty romp with one of his tutors.” - Chapter 17, Six of Crows.

Wylan was upset for a time, but not because of the romantic aspect of it — his feelings had been nothing more than a crush that he soon got over. He thought himself foolish to believe that De Lange might've finally been the one to help him achieve what he needed in order to become an heir his father could be proud of. Wylan felt abandoned and useless, deciding that he was beyond hope and that the last several years of tutoring had been a waste of time for everyone involved.

Age 19: Nobody - Jan gave up on hiring tutors because Alys was now in his life and he knew he could raise another heir to replace Wylan. This was when he began to plan ways to dispose of him.

Age 20: Wylan arrived in the Barrel.

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B.C. couple convicted of unlawfully confining quadriplegic man

Victim sought to hire woman for sex on New Year’s Day, 2018, but changed his mind

A Surrey couple has been found guilty of unlawful confinement in the case of a quadriplegic man who sought to hire the woman for sex on New Year’s Day, 2018, but then changed his mind.

Justice Frits Verhoeven convicted common-law couple Jeremy Sean Eddy and Jacqueline Lee Peintinger of that crime in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster but found them not guilty of robbery, extortion, threatening and assault.

The court heard Peintinger was an escort advertising as “Nina” on a website and operating out of a coach house in the couple’s backyard. The victim, who name has not been disclosed, made arrangements to “utilize her services,” at $1,800 for 24 hours, agreeing to pay via PayPal. But there were problems with payment for lack of a WIFI signal.

The court heard the man, afflicted with cerebral palsy since birth and confined to a wheelchair, wanted a “date” for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, specifically a sexual experience with two women and that Peintinger used a “special-purpose” bedroom in a converted detached garage in the backyard of the residence which she and her boyfriend rented.

When the victim arrived on New Year’s Eve, Eddy answered the door. The victim had not expected to see a man there. He testified Peintinger didn’t look like her website photos. There was also a second man there, named Vic. Uncomfortable, the victim changed his mind about the date and began to wheel away. He told the court Peintinger yelled, “Why are you running away” and told him “I passed up a lot of clients to be with you tonight.”

Fearful, he returned. Meanwhile, the other men were busy trying to construct a ramp so he could get into the bedroom with his wheelchair.

“As Mr. Eddy explained, the wheelchair was heavier than he and Vic expected,” Verhoeven noted. “The conditions were not ideal, as it was cold and snowy out. The board they were trying to use was slick.”

They eventually carried him in, laid him on the bed and left.

The other woman, Charlene or Char, arrived at the main house, where the two women socialized, leaving the victim alone.

“At this point, he had definitely decided that he did not want to proceed with the sexual encounter,” the judge noted. “However, he had not actually said this or that he wanted to leave, at this point.”

The victim decided to fake a seizure, hoping Peintinger and Eddy would call an ambulance. He rolled off the bed and hit the floor, injuring his lip and forehead. According to the victim, Peintinger asked him if he could make the PayPal transfer, he replied he couldn’t, she didn’t believe him, and became angry.

The victim was moved to the main house, where Charlene handed him a mobile phone and he made the PayPal transfer. The court heard Peintinger had not yet set up her side of the transaction, and therefore it was not yet complete. Once she did, the court heard, she accessed her newly created account eight times but was not able to confirm the $1,800 transfer.

Meantime, in the late afternoon of Jan. 1 the victim’s increasingly worried parents went to his apartment, checked his iPod, noted the 3 a.m. transaction and called their daughter, a police officer. She came to the apartment, saw the text messages and address, and called the Surrey RCMP.

An Emergency Response Team went to the couple’s house that night and arrested Eddy. Charlene died several days later of a drug overdose, the court heard.

“The plain fact is,” Verhoeven noted in his reasons for judgment, that the victim “was left largely unattended in the bedroom for many hours. The agreement was for a 24-hour ‘date,’ but, as he says, the date never really happened.”

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Rijksbrandweeracademie (1979-81) in Schaarsbergen, the Netherlands, by Jan Verhoeven

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B.C. couple convicted of unlawfully confining quadriplegic man

A Surrey couple has been found guilty of unlawful confinement in the case of a quadriplegic man who sought to hire the woman for sex on New Year’s Day, 2018, but then changed his mind.

Justice Frits Verhoeven convicted common-law couple Jeremy Sean Eddy and Jacqueline Lee Peintinger of that crime in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster but found them not guilty of robbery, extortion, threatening and assault.

The court heard Peintinger was an escort advertising as “Nina” on a website and operating out of a coach house in the couple’s backyard. The victim, who name has not been disclosed, made arrangements to “utilize her services,” at $1,800 for 24 hours, agreeing to pay via PayPal. But there were problems with payment for lack of a WIFI signal.

The court heard the man, afflicted with cerebral palsy since birth and confined to a wheelchair, wanted a “date” for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, specifically a sexual experience with two women and that Peintinger used a “special-purpose” bedroom in a converted detached garage in the backyard of the residence which she and her boyfriend rented.

When the victim arrived on New Year’s Eve, Eddy answered the door. The victim had not expected to see a man there. He testified Peintinger didn’t look like her website photos. There was also a second man there, named Vic. Uncomfortable, the victim changed his mind about the date and began to wheel away. He told the court Peintinger yelled, “Why are you running away” and told him “I passed up a lot of clients to be with you tonight.”

Fearful, he returned. Meanwhile, the other men were busy trying to construct a ramp so he could get into the bedroom with his wheelchair.

“As Mr. Eddy explained, the wheelchair was heavier than he and Vic expected,” Verhoeven noted. “The conditions were not ideal, as it was cold and snowy out. The board they were trying to use was slick.”

The other woman, Charlene or Char, arrived at the main house, where the two women socialized, leaving the victim alone.

“At this point, he had definitely decided that he did not want to proceed with the sexual encounter,” the judge noted. “However, he had not actually said this or that he wanted to leave, at this point.”

The victim decided to fake a seizure, hoping Peintinger and Eddy would call an ambulance. He rolled off the bed and hit the floor, injuring his lip and forehead. According to the victim, Peintinger asked him if he could make the PayPal transfer, he replied he couldn’t, she didn’t believe him, and became angry.

The victim was moved to the main house, where Charlene handed him a mobile phone and he made the PayPal transfer. The court heard Peintinger had not yet set up her side of the transaction, and therefore it was not yet complete. Once she did, the court heard, she accessed her newly created account eight times but was not able to confirm the $1,800 transfer.

Meantime, in the late afternoon of Jan. 1 the victim’s increasingly worried parents went to his apartment, checked his iPod, noted the 3 a.m. transaction and called their daughter, a police officer. She came to the apartment, saw the text messages and address, and called the Surrey RCMP.

An Emergency Response Team went to the couple’s house that night and arrested Eddy. Charlene died several days later of a drug overdose, the court heard.

“The plain fact is,” Verhoeven noted in his reasons for judgment, that the victim “was left largely unattended in the bedroom for many hours. The agreement was for a 24-hour ‘date,’ but, as he says, the date never really happened.”

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Birthdays 7.18

Beer Birthdays

Joseph Sedlmayr (1808)

Jan Albin Goetz-Okocimski (1864)

Peter Austin (1921)

Carol Stoudt (1949)

Glenn Payne (1954)

Peter Aldred (1959)

Alan Shapiro (1962)

Russ Wigglesworth (1957)

Jenny Voight Lewis (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Kristen Bell; actor (1980)

John Glenn; astronaut, politician (1921)

Elizabeth McGovern; actor (1961)

Hunter S. Thompson; gonzo journalist, writer (1939)

Paul Verhoeven; Dutch film director (1938)

Famous Birthdays

Giacomo Balla; Italian painter (1871)

Saverio Bettinelli; Italian poet (1718)

Edward Bond; English director, playwright (1934)

Richard Branson; English businessman (1950)

James Brolin; actor (1940)

Dick Button; figure skater (1929)

Terry Chambers; rock drummer, "XTC" (1955)

Elizabeth Coblentz; Amish cookbook author (1936)

Hume Cronyn; actor (1911)

John Dee; English mathematician, astronomer, occultist (1527)

Vin Diesel; actor (1967)

Nick Faldo; English golfer (1957)

Bernd Fasching; Austrian painter (1955)

Immanuel Hermann Fichte; German philosopher (1796)

Elizabeth Gilbert; author (1969)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins; rock singer (1929)

Hermann of Reichenau; German composer, mathematician & astronomer (1013)

Roald Hoffmann; Polish chemist (1937)

Robert Hooke; physicist, mathematician, inventor (1635)

Glenn Hughes; pop singer, Village People biker (1950)

Machine Gun Kelly; gangster (1895)

Charles Kittel; physicist (1916)

Thomas Kuhn; philosopher (1922)

Audrey Landers; actor (1956)

Richard Leacoc;, English-French director (1922)

Hendrik Lorentz; Dutch physicist (1853)

Nelson Mandela; South African politician (1918)

Margo Martindale; actress (1951)

Shaun Micallef; Australian comedian (1962)

Hartmut Michel; German biochemist (1948)

Alan Morrison; British poet (1974)

Harriet Nelson; singer, actor (1909)

Clifford Odets; writer (1906)

Martha Reeves; pop singer (1941)

Hyacinthe Rigaud; French painter (1659)

Ricky Skaggs; country singer (1954)

Red Skelton; comedian, actor (1913)

William Makepeace Thackeray; English writer (1811)

Joe Torre; Milwaukee Braves C, NY Yankees manager (1940)

Lupe Velez; Mexican actor (1908)

Jessamyn West; writer (1902)

Gilbert White; English naturalist (1720)

Wendy Williams; talk show host (1964)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko; Russian poet (1933)

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Austin Butler to Receive Palm Springs Film Fest’s Breakthrough Performance Award for ‘Elvis’ (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

Austin Butler to Receive Palm Springs Film Fest’s Breakthrough Performance Award for ‘Elvis’ (Exclusive) – Hollywood Reporter

Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterThe Film Awards will take place on Jan. 5 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. By Beatrice Verhoeven Austin Butler will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for his portrayal in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. “Austin Butler commands the screen with a…

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Mundo: Recibe una postal de su hermana 42 años después de ser enviada

Mundo: Recibe una postal de su hermana 42 años después de ser enviada

Ludwina Verhoeven, una neerlandesa de 64 años, recibirá una postal de su hermana casi medio siglo después de ser enviada. La tarjeta, que incluía una selección de fotos de un camping, estaba firmada por Veronica, Jan y Matthijs e iba dirigida a Ludwina y Piet Verhoeven en Nieuw-Vennep, al suroeste de Ámsterdam. La oficina de correos holandesa devolvió a finales de septiembre al campamento Bosbad…

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Cinefantastique #62

Jan 1987

Cover: Little Shop of Horrors. Star Trek IV:The Voyage Home, Hypersapien, Captain Eo, Journey to the Center of Earth, Paul Verhoeven's Robocop, Little Shop of Horrors--from B film to off-Broadway to movie, The Original "Little Shop", Stuart Gordon--The Re-Animator, Richard Franklin's Link, The New Twilight Zone

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Digital painting of the “Gnome Village” in downtown Rotterdam, The Netherlands

https://www.werkaandemuur.nl/nl/shopwerk/Verschildering-Blaakse-Bos-Rotterdam/792651/132?

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Ten frames from Paul Verhoeven's boundary-pushing neo noir Basic Instinct (1993) photographed in gold and teal by Jan de Bont.